🚨 Chelsea through to Champions League quarter-finals, Villarreal stun Juventus

Chelsea booked a spot within the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals after a 2-1 second-leg win in opposition to LOSC Lille on Wednesday night time. 

The defending champions held a 2-0 benefit from the primary leg performed at Stamford Bridge a fortnight in the past, however needed to work additional in opposition to the French champions. 

Similar to it was in London, the hosts began the match brightly, urgent the Blues and forcing them to protect their field within the opening minutes. 

Regardless of each side having fun with periodic possession, there have been no clear probabilities within the opening half-hour, with the Blues glad to maintain the hosts at arm’s size. 

It shortly modified although as Lille received a penalty within the thirty sixth minute when Jorginho dealt with the ball contained in the field. 

Burak Yilmaz stepped up and put the ball into the highest proper nook previous the outstretched arm of Edouard Mendy to offer the hosts the lead. 

It nevertheless lasted a couple of minutes as Chelsea labored their method again into the match and Christian Puulisic pulled them stage with a intelligent end on the stroke of half-time. 

The French membership got here again for the second half with actual intent and carved out a lot of probabilities. 

The very best fell to Xeka within the 63rd minute when he latched onto an outstanding cross into the field however his effort hit the left put up. 

It did not take lengthy for Lille to pay for the missed likelihood as Cezar Azpilicueta completed a great crew transfer to place them within the driving seat. 

Regardless of their greatest efforts, Lille couldn’t discover a well past the London membership as they booked a spot within the final eight with a 4-1 mixture win.

In one other match, Villarreal knocked out Italian giants Juventus with a hard-fought 3-0 win. 

The tie was evenly balanced at 1-1 from the primary leg performed in Spain two weeks in the past, with the Italian membership having the benefit of enjoying the second leg at dwelling. 

It was to not be although as Gerrard Moreno gave Villarreal the lead within the 78th minute, earlier than Pau Torres scored what appeared just like the winner 5 minutes later. 

There was time although for Arnaut Danjuma to attain a 3rd deep in harm time so as to add icing on the cake for the Spanish membership.