{"id":10246,"date":"2021-05-30T16:46:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T11:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=111418"},"modified":"2021-05-30T16:46:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T11:16:16","slug":"kai-havertz-scored-his-first-ever-uefa-champions-league-ucl-goal-as-chelsea-clinch-the-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/kai-havertz-scored-his-first-ever-uefa-champions-league-ucl-goal-as-chelsea-clinch-the-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Kai Havertz scored his first ever UEFA Champions League (UCL) goal as Chelsea clinch the title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UEFA Champions League Final, Manchester City vs Chelsea Highlights: Chelsea beat Man City 1-0 in the final.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CHAMPIONS OF EUROPE!!! \ud83c\udfc6 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ChelseaChampions?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ChelseaChampions<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UCLFinal?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UCLFinal<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Wz000kegmG\">pic.twitter.com\/Wz000kegmG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChelseaFC\/status\/1398746059212525579?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 29, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Both Chelsea and ManCity had their chances in the game. Although, Kai Havertz\u2019 42nd min lone goal stood to be the difference between both sides.<\/p>\n<p>Premier League champions, City, were favourites ahead of the final but suffered a desperately disappointing night in Porto in what was their first Champions League final. Pep Guardiola\u2019s side were never allowed to play their normal fluent game and could not respond as a disciplined Chelsea sealed a second Champions League triumph.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel was at pains to stress this Champions League final was about so much more than his tactical and personal battle with Manchester City\u2019s Pep Guardiola \u2013 and yet the story of this showpiece will have both cast as its central characters.<\/p>\n<p>Tuchel, a loser with Paris St-Germain against Bayern Munich in last season\u2019s final, made no mistake with his second chance as he prepared and plotted to perfection to produce a finely tuned, intensely committed Chelsea side fully deserving the victory that saw them crowned champions of Europe for a second time.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, Guardiola chose to select a starting 11 he had never picked before in his time as City manager, gambling on an array of attacking talent to compensate for his decision not to use either of his outstanding midfield anchors Fernandinho or Rodri.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester City:<br \/>\nEderson, Walker, Dias, Stones, Zinchenko, Gundogan, De Bruyne, Bernardo, Mahrez, Sterling, Foden<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea:<br \/>\nMendy, James, Thiago Silva, Rudiger, Azpilicueta, Kante, Jorginho, Chilwell, Mount, Havertz, Werner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UEFA Champions League Final, Manchester City vs Chelsea Highlights: Chelsea beat Man City 1-0 in the final. CHAMPIONS OF EUROPE!!!\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":32754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[312,220,490],"class_list":["post-10246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-chelsea","tag-manchester-city-f-c","tag-ucl"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}