Whether Thomas Tuchel truly believed this tie was over at the halfway point may only become clear after the final whistle tonight.
The Chelsea manager was emotional after the 3-1 first-leg defeat to Real Madrid, chastened by the raggedness of his team’s performance. It was understandable that he was not in the mood to look for positives, such as the amount of times his own team opened up their opponents, with Romelu Lukaku’s failure to hit an open goal from six yards preventing the second leg at the Bernabeu from having much more jeopardy about it.
