Australian open women's live scores5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() This was a hard win after the defeat in the first leg in Germany one week earlier but it was a good one too. Albeit now Chelsea may go to Leicester City on Saturday feeling rather more like the Premier League big dogs they are supposed to be. It remains a fragile enterprise and Potter has only taken baby steps back from the brink. Just before half-time, when Raheem Sterling had scored the first, there was even a moment when it looked like Potter might even have enjoyed being Chelsea manager – even if it was fleeting. The Chelsea manager was looking at his feet when Havertz scored what would be the tie’s winning goal at the second attempt. First Leeds United dispatched at a sceptical Stamford Bridge on Saturday and now one of the great clubs of European football beaten with a hotly-disputed retaken penalty to propel Chelsea into the quarter-finals of the Champions League.Īt that moment, with the tie in the balance, Chelsea’s season at the crossroads and perhaps Potter’s managerial career too, he averted his gaze. The Potter era, if it is to last as long as to justify such a place in history, has survived its most exacting four days. Graham Potter declined to watch the retake of Kai Havertz’s definitive second half penalty and the Chelsea manager, who has now found a place of refuge in what looked like it might be the collapse of a season, will wish that every misstep could so easily be rectified.
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