White shirts were dancing all around the San Siro on Tuesday night, freely interchanging positions and gliding around a pitch that was supposed to induce fear and intimidation.
AC Milan's impressively assembled support made the iconic football cathedral a cauldron of noise even 30 minutes before kick-off. Chelsea had also lost their last five trips to Italy in the Champions League, a further incentive for the Rossoneri to enact revenge for last week's humbling.
The ease to which Graham Potter's men dispatched Milan for the second time in six days reflects how quickly his ideas are settling in. Fikayo Tomori's red card 20 minutes into the first-half altered the course of the game, no doubt, but the way in which Chelsea grabbed that advantage and effectively put the game beyond their hosts before the interval still requires praise.
