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Champions League: Chelsea shatter Guardiola, Man City dream to win final

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Andy Scott, Agence France-Presse

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2021/life/05/29/20210529-chelsea-celebrate-after-winning-the-champions-league-rtr.jpg"/><figcaption>Chelsea celebrate after winning the Champions League at Estadio do Dragao, Porto, Portugal on May 29, 2021. <em>Michael Steele, Reuters</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>Chelsea won the Champions League for the second time as a Kai Havertz goal secured a tense 1-0 victory over Manchester City in Saturday&#x27;s final in Porto, shattering Pep Guardiola&#x27;s dream of lifting the trophy for the third time, a decade on from his last triumph.</p><p>Havertz rounded Ederson to score 3 minutes before half-time at Estadio do Dragao and the Chelsea players ran to the far end of the pitch to celebrate with the German.</p><p>Coach Thomas Tuchel, full of energy on the touchline just like his opposite number, punched the air in celebration, and later jumped with joy on the pitch after Chelsea held on for victory in the second half as City lost distraught skipper Kevin De Bruyne to injury.</p><p>The London club may have finished fourth in the Premier League, a huge 19 points behind the champions City, but this, remarkably, was their third win over Guardiola&#x27;s side in six weeks.</p><p>They shattered City&#x27;s hopes of a domestic treble when they triumphed in the FA Cup semi-finals in April and then delayed their title celebrations with victory in Manchester.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/05/06/21/champions-league-chelsea-outclass-real-madrid-to-set-up-all-english-final">Champions League: Chelsea outclass Real Madrid to set up all-English final</a></li></ul><p>Now, in a final watched by a limited crowd of just over 14,000 fans who created a raucous atmosphere, they have denied City the first Champions League crown they and Guardiola so crave.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/05/05/21/champions-league-mahrez-double-takes-man-city-past-psg-into-first-final">Champions League: Mahrez double takes Man City past PSG into first final</a></li></ul><div><strong>- Abramovich&#x27;s second European Cup -</strong></div><p>City have had to wait 13 years since being taken over by Abu Dhabi&#x27;s Sheikh Mansour just to get to the Champions League final.</p><p>They are now the seventh consecutive team to lose in their first appearance at this stage. The same misfortune befell Qatar-owned Paris Saint-Germain last year as well as Tottenham Hotspur when they were beaten by Liverpool in the last all-English final in 2019.</p><p>Chelsea also lost when they first got to the final, succumbing on penalties against Manchester United in Moscow in 2008.</p><p>They overcame the final hurdle by beating Bayern Munich, also in a shoot-out, in 2012 and now they have their second European Cup to move level with Juventus, Benfica and Porto as well as another English side, Nottingham Forest.</p><p>Their transformation into one of Europe&#x27;s super clubs has been down to the riches of Roman Abramovich, their Russian oligarch owner who was in attendance at the game in Portugal.</p><p>Chelsea have been transformed since the appointment as coach in January of Tuchel, but City were still the favorites off the back of their third Premier League title triumph in four seasons.</p><p>Feeding off the energy of the crowd in a stadium that Portuguese authorities had allowed to be filled to a third of its capacity -- all fans required negative Covid-19 tests to gain entry -- both teams played with a level of intensity rarely seen in the last year of football in empty grounds.</p><div><strong>FROM THE ARCHIVES:</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=1429193" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div>

<p>Chelsea won the Champions League for the second time as a Kai Havertz goal secured a tense 1-0 victory in Saturday's final in Porto.</p>

Chelsea won the Champions League for the second time as a Kai Havertz goal secured a tense 1-0 victory in Saturday's final in Porto.

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Champions League: Chelsea shatter Guardiola, Man City dream to win final

Andy Scott,

Agence France-Presse

Published May 30, 2021 05:24 AM PHT

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