Chelsea 4-4 Ajax: 3 talking points after a historic comeback by Blues against Ajax

3. It took 2 red cards for Chelsea to register a comeback in Chaos

It was surely a game of two halves. In the first instalment of the game, Ajax totally ruled the Stamford Bridge, as a comfortable 3-1 score made the Dutch champions relieved.

Later in the first few minutes of the second half, De Godenzonen were once again dominating, as they scored the 4th goal to give a setback to the Blues.

However, Cesar Azpilicueta scored the second goal to give a ray f hope to Chelsea, and soon in an instant flow of action, two players from Ajax picked red cards out of continuous errors- Daley Blind and Joel Veltman.

With this, Ajax was left with only 9-men, which actually panicked the Dutch team and to take advantage of the scene Chelsea first converted the penalty from Veltman’ handball after picking the second yellow.

Then soon the Blues made several attempts to find the equalizer but failed. Although, a magnificent strike by the Reece James ends the comfortable lead of all the system.

Later Chelsea tried to advance the lead but did not manage to score, even though Azpilicueta was close in the final minutes of the game but Tammy Abraham’s handball was found. Thus, chaos was certainly formed with the footballing action by the end of the game.

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Tanish Chachra

Tanish Chachra is the Motorsport editor at The SportsRush. He saw his first race when F1 visited India in 2011, and since then, his romance with the sport has been seasonal until he took up this role in 2020. Reigniting F1's coverage on this site, Tanish has fallen in love with the sport all over again. He loves Kimi Raikkonen and sees a future world champion in Oscar Piastri. Away from us, he loves to snuggle inside his books.

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