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Borussia Dortmund coach Edin Terzic gave his players a night to digest their Champions League Round of 16 exit to Chelsea on Tuesday before picking ...

We don't want anything for granted but we will see at the end of May." "At the end of May we will see what we deserve," Terzic said. Dortmund, who were on a 10-game winning run in all competitions in 2023 prior to Tuesday, lost 2-0 at Chelsea and were eliminated.

Borussia Dortmund midfielder Jude Bellingham called Chelsea's retaken penalty, which knocked his team out of the Champions League, a "joke."

"My job is to help the team, help the players, prepare the team as well as we could and to support them. We wanted to progress, and we have, so we're happy." He's made the decision and we have to live with it." I've paid enough to them lot." "I'm not sure what more he can do with his hand," Bellingham said after the match of the initial handball call. Things are never bad forever, but it felt like that sometimes!

Chelsea's winners and losers after the Blues came from behind to knock Borussia Dortmund out of the Champions League.

Kai Havertz was the hero as he delivered another big-game performance for the Blues. Having been denied by the goalkeeper and the woodwork, he netted the decisive goal from a retaken penalty for handball early in the second half - keeping his cool having missed his initial effort as However, Chelsea upset the form book and were on the front foot from the first whistle.

Beating Dortmund in the Champions League will ease the pressure on Graham Potter and his team, but it won't end the questions about where they are headed.

And it is only natural, given the sheer number of players at his disposal, that Potter has been unable to resist the temptation to cycle through all of his options. But more immediately it can also betray an uncertainty, a restlessness and a lack of clarity, all of which have a habit of making the long term irrelevant. It is better, of course, to win in the way you want to win. First, it had lost ground in the race for a top-four finish in the Premier League, and then it had lost sight of it completely. It was nip and tuck, taut and tense, almost until the end. Still, it was apt, because even in victory it is not immediately possible to discern a clear, distinct pattern in this Chelsea team. But it is preferable to the alternative: Winning this game was not conclusive, but losing it might have been. It was fitting, really, that the game, and the round-of-16 tie, hinged on a five-minute period in which nobody actually played any soccer. Potter will know, of course, that edging past a somewhat depleted Borussia Dortmund, 2-0, on Tuesday to qualify for the quarterfinals of the Champions League is not a panacea. The club’s owners, meanwhile, have been assiduous in reiterating their ongoing faith in the 47-year-old Potter, but there comes a point where the frequency of those reassurances is itself reflective of a problem. As a rule, all of that ends only one way for a coach: not just at Chelsea but especially at Chelsea. Potter, for the last few weeks, has had the air of a manager desperately trying to keep his head above water.

Chelsea midfielder Melanie Leupolz has nothing but praise for her club after the support they provided during her pregnancy, including hiring specialists ...

But they offered a contract straight away," she said. I think we have to ask ourselves more seriously why that is. "Emma has a child herself and she knows what's important.

Despite winning its home leg against Chelsea, Borussia Dortmund has been eliminated from the UEFA Champions League.

In some ways, it was almost the reverse of the first leg when Chelsea had the majority of the ball, but it was Dortmund that would that would score the only goal. But the biggest question is what will be Dortmund’s reaction to the defeat? “I’ve just looked at our possession stats, and it says that we have had more, but it didn’t feel like we had it in the places where we could hurt them.” But they were not the reason Dortmund has exited the Champions League at the round of 16 stage. But by the letter of the law, Makkiele was correct with both his decisions. “It was the referee's fault.

LONDON: Chelsea's Guro Reiten scored from the spot and Johanna Rytting Kaneryd got her first goal for the club as they beat Brighton & Hove Albion 3-1 on ...

In the evening's other game fourth-placed Arsenal, who beat Chelsea in the Women's League Cup final on Sunday, cruised to a 2-0 win over Liverpool, with Stina Blackstenius and Caitlin Foord netting the goals. Norway international Reiten fired home a penalty low to the keeper's right to give Chelsea the lead in the 12th minute after Sam Kerr was fouled in the box, and Jess Carter doubled the home side's advantage nine minutes later. United, who top the standings on 35 points from 14 games, travel to Chelsea with a one-point lead, but the Blues have a game in hand and a victory for either side could give them a huge advantage as the title race hots up.

Carter comes off the bench to score her fifth of the season but Albion go down 3-1.

She was stranded five minutes later though when Terland hit an instinctive volley from the right-hand edge of the box which unluckily clattered back off the crossbar with Musovic stranded. Jess Carter was free at the back post from the resultant corner only to volley wide, but Albion did go behind in the 11th minute when Zoe Morse brought down Sam Kerr in the box. Albion struggled to get out of their own half in the opening quarter.

There were moments against Borussia Dortmund when Chelsea's manager seemed doomed but VAR and Kai Havertz came to the rescue.

There was a nice moment at the end as Potter celebrated with the Chelsea fans, gamely punching the air and letting out a slightly awkward roar. At times Potter to Chelsea has looked not just a poor or ill-timed appointment, but a candidate for worst marriage of club, board and manager in modern football history. But victory here still came on the back of an agonising run of form, and with a team who were ready to fight. And by the end those four minutes felt like something passing, just a little, and just for now. Sterling crash-tackled his way forwards and lashed it violently into the net, stopping the clock before it could hit eight hours of football without a Chelsea attacker scoring a goal. A minute later Ben Chilwell slashed a shot wide, with the Chelsea bench already up leaping and clutching at each other in desperation.

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Chelsea host Borussia Dortmund in a massive UEFA Champions League last 16 second leg clash, as Graham Potter's side need to overturn a 1-0 deficit.

Chelsea's Guro Reiten scored from the spot and Johanna Rytting Kaneryd got her first goal for the club as they beat Brighton & Hove Albion 3-1 on Wednesday ...

Register for free to Reuters and know the full story Norway international Reiten fired home a penalty low to the keeper's right to give Chelsea the lead in the 12th minute after Sam Kerr was fouled in the box, and Jess Carter doubled the home side's advantage nine minutes later. United, who top the standings on 35 points from 14 games, travel to Chelsea with a one-point lead, but the Blues have a game in hand and a victory for either side could give them a huge advantage as the title race hots up.

LONDON — Maybe this will be the turning point for underfire Chelsea manager Graham Potter. He went into Tuesday's game against Borussia Dortmund with questions ...

I tried to wait and look at the keeper and the second one was a bit easier." "Fair play to Chelsea and congratulations," he said. This is a big tournament and it's the last trophy that we can win. "We have been through a tough period and this competition means a lot to us," Potter said. "The last two weeks were hard, we lost a lot of games," Havertz said. And he thought he had let another chance go by when firing his first penalty against the post before VAR came to his rescue. Havertz repeated his technique, sent Meyer in the opposite direction again, but on this occasion he found the back of the net to put Chelsea in front in the 53rd. Havertz, whose goal secured the Champions League title for Chelsea in a 1-0 win in the final against Manchester City two years ago, had already hit the post in the first half and seen another effort ruled out for offside. "I was a bit nervous but I scored. Not only did his team show the character to recover from losing the first leg, it did so by scoring two goals in a game for the first time in 2023. "We wanted to progress and get into the last eight and it sets us up for the next few weeks." A twice-taken penalty by Kai Havertz secured a 2-0 win in front of the Blues' co-owner Todd Boehly at Stamford Bridge to ease the pressure on Potter and spark celebrations inside the stadium rarely seen during such a troubled campaign.