How Chelsea can beat Real Madrid and make the Champions League final

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Chelsea face the might of Real Madrid in the last four of the Champions League having beaten Porto over two legs in the quarter-finals. Victory over the Spanish giants would take the west Londoners to their third final. But it won’t be easy. As shown in their 3-1 aggregate win against Liverpool in the last eight, Real will be tough to beat. Here’s how Thomas Tuchel’s team can ignore reputations and knock out the European heavyweights to make it to the final in Istanbul. Attack their right flank The main weakness Zinedine Zidane’s team showed against Liverpool was down their right flank, where they had Federico Valverde playing out of position due to Lucas Vasquez’s knee injury. Thomas Tuchel must play Ben Chilwell for his speed and forget about the rotation that has seen Marcos Alonso back in the line-up. Chilwell will get into attacking positions like Andy Robertson did and will need to have an understanding with his left-sided forward, which is likely to be Timo Werner or Christian Pulisic. Sadio Mane enjoyed success down that flank and with better finishing from his team-mates Liverpool would have pulled a goal back in the first couple of minutes. Valverde’s passing is excellent as you would expect from a central midfielder but found himself in difficulty with opponents running at him.

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