This Tuesday the Chelsea celebrated despite losing 1 to 0 against him Porto in the rematch of the quarterfinals of the Champions League after winning the first leg 2-0 last week. In the game, which lacked goal situations and in which the goalkeepers hardly participated, one of the best goals of the tournament took place, which, although it seems unusual, was of no use to the author’s team.
It is that the Portuguese team was able to shout both Mahdi Taremi in minute 93 of the match, but he was left empty-handed and said goodbye to the continental competition. The Iranian, who entered the complement to add offensive weight, tried a spectacular chili after a center to the far post from the right, which was nailed in the goal defended by Edouard Mendy to seal a magnificent work.
The goal of the 28-year-old forward is surely among the candidates for the best of the year in the competition, because the complexity, strength and precision required to improvise such a pirouette deserves his recognition.
Taremi He made his debut in 2010 in the Shahin Bushehr shirt. After playing several seasons in Iranian teams and being a scorer in the second division of that country, where he won the Iran Pro League and the Super Cup, he joined the Iranian Cup at Ave River from Portugal, after a brief stint in Qatar’s football. Due to his performances there, he drew the attention of Porto, which added him as a reinforcement in 2019.
“We have done what we had to do. It was a very tough fight, maybe it wasn’t nice to watch on television, but from the sidelines it was a very intense, very fast match “, declared the coach of the Blues, Thomas Tuchel.
The Chelsea did not qualify for the semifinals of the top European club competition since 2014, two years after having won the first and only time Champions. A dramatic change for a team that seemed out of options in January, when the leadership decided to fire Frank Lampard, with the team far from the top in the Premier League (currently it is 5th and fighting to qualify for the next Champions League) and it seemed without much future in Europe.
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