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That’s all from me. Don’t forget to read Jacob Steinberg’s report:
Gute nacht.
Cole Palmer speaks.
“It was frustrating. I feel like we deserved more.
“We started well. We had early chances to score. But when you make mistakes at the highest level it’s hard to come back.
“Maybe a lack of concentration, not managing the moments … but I think we showed we can play against one of the best teams in the competition. Like the manager said we can go toe to toe with them.
“It’s a good learning curve. To be back in the competition is nice. We need to kick on from here.
“We’ve shown we can compete.”
Updated at 17.24 EDT
From around the grounds:
“The kid’s a genius,” Joe Cole says of Cole Palmer.
That’s true.
Cole Palmer had the ball in the net a second time late against Bayern Munich, but it was disallowed for offside. Photograph: Martin Meissner/APShare
Updated at 17.17 EDT
Jacob Steinberg
The Allianz Arena will always hold cherished memories for Chelsea but when they pick through the wreckage of their first night back in the Champions League there will be plenty of moments that they would probably rather not have to think about again.
Reaction coming up, and even a match report. What did you think? You can email me.
“You make mistakes at these big giants, you get punished,” says Joe Cole on pundit duty of Chelsea’s occasional carelessness.
Certainly the concession of the third Bayern goal was very soft, and not the sort of thing you can get away with in any match, let alone a Champions League tie in Munich. Take that out, and put Palmer’s knee two inches further back at the end, and, well, it’s 2-2!
Updated at 17.06 EDT
Full-time: Bayern Munich 3-1 Chelsea
Some warm words between Kompany and Maresca at full-time. On the pitch, Palmer and Olise cover their mouths as they have a quick chat. The first half was excellent, as a spectacle, and Chelsea were marginally the better side despite the errors that also let Bayern in. Kim’s introduction in central defence seemed to make all the difference for the hosts. So kudos to Kompany for that – or on the other hand, did he get his selection wrong?
Chelsea’s Alejandro Garnacho looks dejected after the final whistle. Photograph: Angelika Warmuth/ReutersWhilst the Bayern players celebrate with their fans. Photograph: Martin Meissner/APShare
Updated at 17.08 EDT
90 min + 5: Upemecano surges upfield out of defence. He is brought down, but the referee doesn’t give a free-kick. It all feels a bit inconsequential.
Liverpool were drawing 2-2, and have just scored through Virgil van Dijk in stoppage time:
90 min: We shall have six minutes added, minimum.
89 min: Palmer has the ball in the net thanks to a lovely pass by Santos. Another lovely goal, but he’s fractionally offside. It was a beautifully weighted pass from a central position, and a delicate finish by the England forward, touching it around Neuer and in.
Nicolas Jackson is coming on, the on-loan Chelsea forward. So is Tom Bischof. Gnabry and Kane off.
“Harry, thanks!” says the stadium announcer as the England captain walks off.
Chelsea’s Cole Palmer (centre) puts the ball in the net with a lovely finish but it’s chalked off by VAR. Photograph: Martin Meissner/APShare
Updated at 17.03 EDT
88 min: The commentators have said that Bayern’s superior experience in this competition has made all the difference in this second half. But it looks to me more like Chelsea have run out of steam a bit.
Garnacho strikes a mediocre shot from an angle that is easily saved by Neuer.
85 min: Laimer is booked for a foul on Pedro. It’s very stop-start. Garnacho gets on the ball again, on the Chelsea left, but makes little progress.
83 min: Maresca yells instructions from the touchline. But Bayern continue to look in total control. Hoddle praises the impact of Kim since he came on at half-time, and his ability to spark attacks from centre-back. Now Diaz hares through, one-on-one after a ball from Gnabry, but he’s offside. There is a coming together with Cucurella and Sanchez, needlessly, with the referee’s assistant’s flag staying down.
Updated at 16.45 EDT
80 min: The 18-year-old Brazilian Estevao on for Chelsea, his Champions League debut. Fernandez comes off.
Maresca is right to change things, but his team look a bit spent, even if Garnacho has made one raid down the wing since coming on.
Updated at 16.42 EDT
78 min: Right now, this is fizzling out. Bayern look comfortable. Chelsea look slightly listless. Now Chalobah is down and injured after sliding in for a challenge on his England colleague Kane.
Still, a Chelsea goal makes it fascinating for the last 10.
Bayern’s Sacha Boey (left) is challenged by Chelsea’s Marc Cucurella. Photograph: Martin Meissner/APShare
Updated at 17.06 EDT
75 min: Fernandez takes the free-kick following the foul on Gusto. It’s deflected high outside the box where Palmer hits a half-hearted volley. Chelsea’s tempo has dropped markedly – it would hardly be surprising if there is fatigue throughout the squad given their Club World Cup shenanigans. (That said, the intensity of their early pressing was going to be impossible to maintain regardless.)
Updated at 16.37 EDT
73 min: Gusto goes down, just outside the Bayern penalty area, under a clumsy challenge by Luiz. Will we have a box-office finish, can Chelsea find a way back into this?
70 min: The Bayern faithful are in full voice now. It looks like it’ll be six victories out of six to start the 2025/26 campaign. This has been a test and it seems they’ve passed. Kompany will be concerned at how easily Chelsea have been able to cut through them, at times, and they will need to tighten up defensively if they are going to trouble the scorers in the latter stages of the competition.
Updated at 16.32 EDT
67 min: Hoddle compares the prolific Kane to Teddy Sheringham. “If you don’t rely on your pace when you’re young, you can play on for ever.”
Olise then slams a shot wide after a classy Bayern move. Two changes for Chelsea: Garnacho on for Neto, André Santos on for James.
Updated at 16.29 EDT
65 min: So Kane, as it stands, has 10 goals in six games this season, with a bit more of this one to go.
Alejandro Garnacho is going to come on for Chelsea, it looks like, while Leon Goretzka is on for Bayern, in place of Pavlovic.
Updated at 16.27 EDT
Goal! 63 min: Bayern Munich 3-1 Chelsea (Kane)
Horrible one for Chelsea, who try to play out from the back. Gusto loses it under pressure with a very poor first touch. The ball squirts to Kane, with the Chelsea defence nowhere, and the England captain slides a brilliant finish inside the far post.
Harry Kane scores his second, and Bayern Munich’s third goal against Chelsea. Photograph: Maja Hitij/Getty ImagesKane and the Bayern fans celebrate. Photograph: Martin Meissner/APShare
Updated at 16.32 EDT
61 min: This second half has been less frantic than the first but there is still lots going on. You’d have to say that Kim’s introduction has bolstered Bayern defensively and Chelsea aren’t getting so much joy running at the home defence.
Updated at 16.23 EDT
59 min: Sensational save by Sanchez! Kane cuts back for Olise, who has to score. He doesn’t direct the shot quite well enough, though, and gives Sanchez a chance to make a brilliant low save, diving to his right across the goal. Could that lead to Chelsea getting a result here?
Updated at 16.21 EDT
57 min: Laimer and Kane link and it’s a huge chance for Kane! Laimer has burst from halfway, Kane makes a perceptive overlapping run, and is slid in cleverly by his teammate. Sanchez’s positioning is good, though: he makes himself big and comes off his line to block a low shot from the England captain. Kane remonstrates with himself for not creating a two-goal cushion. That does illustrate how dangerous Kane is when he has direct runners coming past him, as opposed to the stodge-fest he is often engaged with for England.
Updated at 16.19 EDT
55 min: Chelsea’s Caicedo is putting in a good shift, he gets his foot on it in midfield, and plays a searching pass forward which Bayern’s defence does well to cut out.
Diaz then has a sniff for the hosts, cutting in on his right foot, and sliding a shot straight at Sanchez from an angle.
Updated at 16.16 EDT
52 min: A nice bit of interplay from Chelsea’s tricky forward line creates a chance for James to shoot from distance. It’s a bit of a scuffed effort from the Blues captain, who is playing in midfield tonight, and it’s easily saved.
Updated at 16.13 EDT
50 min: Stanisic is going to come off, it seems. It was a heavy landing after he jumped with Chalobah, not that the Chelsea player did anything wrong. And there it is: the Frenchman Sacha Boey comes on, Stanisic off.
Updated at 16.11 EDT
48 min: Gusto made a raid on the right early doors, chasing a long ball for Chelsea, but was offside. Now Bayern’s Stanisic has gone down, looking in some pain, after falling awkwardly after an aerial challenge with Chalobah around halfway.
Updated at 16.09 EDT
Second half kick-off!
One change for Bayern: Tah, who had been booked, replaced by Kim.
“Kim is a little bit tighter as a defender, if I may say,” observes Hoddle on commentary.
Will we see Nicolas Jackson soon?
Updated at 16.06 EDT
Champions League-related half-time reading:
ShareHalf time: Bayern Munich 2-1 Chelsea.
Helluva good half of football.
45 min + 1: Olise again makes a few inroads down the Bayern right, and wins yet another corner. Sanchez catches it, this time, and that’s that.
Updated at 15.49 EDT
45 min: More pressure from Bayern – Tah with a header at the far post – but he’s offside. Another excellent high line from Chelsea brings the assistant’s flag. We will have a minimum of two minutes added.
Updated at 15.48 EDT
44 min: Olise stands Cucurella up on the Bayern right. He wins a corner. One final chance before the break? Sanchez tips it clear – or does he try to catch it? Anyway it’s another corner over the other side, to be taken by Kimmich.
Updated at 15.46 EDT
42 min: A corner for Bayern is half-cleared by a Sanchez punch. Olise hits it first-time on the volley, from the edge of the box, and it bounces wide of the far post. Close …
Updated at 15.45 EDT
39 min: Now Bayern’s Gnabry curls a fine cross over from the right looking for Diaz. He tumbles over while going for it, under a challenge, but the referee waves away Bayern protests. This is a fine game of football. Adarabioyo then has to block a shot from Kane, who tries one from point-blank range at an angle.
Updated at 15.43 EDT
38 min: Laimer, suddenly, has a sight of goal for Bayern after a marauding run into the box and an excellent pass by Olise. He slides his shot, side-footed, to the far post and it drifts wide. Will this be 2-2 or 3-1 at half time? It looks like it has another goal in it before the oranges and tea.
Updated at 15.41 EDT
35 min: James, playing out of position in midfield, embarks on a strong diagonal run in the middle of the park. Chelsea remain full of energy. Gusto now powers to the edge of the box and slams a shot straight into a defender! Bayern don’t look comfortable with these Chelsea runners seemingly coming from everywhere. A marginal penalty is what separates the teams, but Chelsea look the more dangerous side again.
Updated at 15.39 EDT
34 min: Chelsea are back into this. Caicedo hits a shot well wide when there are better options. Maresca, who must have been close to seeing a red card such was his fury about something, seems to have settled down a bit, too. That goal by Palmer has got them right back in it when a cricket score was suddenly looming.
Updated at 15.36 EDT
33 min: In other news, Cucurella is being booed by the Bayern fans over a handball that wasn’t given at Euro 2024:
31 min: “Some players don’t know how to use space,” says Hoddle on commentary, of Palmer’s rich talents. “This kid does.
“He just lent him (Gusto) the ball, hoping he was going to give it back.”
Lovely stuff.
ShareGoal! 28 min: Bayern Munich 2-1 Chelsea (Palmer)
What a sensational finish by Palmer. Caicedo releases him near the Chelsea penalty area. Palmer glides downfield, exchanges passes with Gusto on the edge of the box, and clips a ludicrously dead-eyed finish beyond Neuer and into the roof of the net. What a goal! Meanwhile, Maresca is furious about something, and is booked.
Cole Palmer (right) holds off the challenge of Bayern Munich’s Joshua Kimmich and fire the ball into the net and get Chelsea back into the match. Photograph: Alexandra Beier/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 15.53 EDT
Goal! 27 min: Bayern Munich 2-0 Chelsea (Kane penalty)
Kane, of course, slides the penalty efficiently into the corner, and Chelsea are staring down the barrel now.
Bayern’s Harry Kane (centre) sends Chelsea keeper Robert Sanchez the wrong way to double the home side’s lead. Photograph: Martin Meissner/APCue a trademark celebration from Kane. Photograph: Angelika Warmuth/ReutersShare
Updated at 16.08 EDT
Penalty to Bayern!
Kane goes down under a challenge from Caicedo. The referee initially doesn’t give it. Then he does. Classic Kane trickery. Was it a foul? Not for me Clive.
Chelsea’s Moises Caicedo challenges Harry Kane … Photograph: Martin Meissner/APWhich leads to the Bayern player winning a penalty. Photograph: Angelika Warmuth/ReutersShare
Updated at 15.41 EDT
24 min: The good news for Chelsea is that, as stated, they were the better team before the goal. However, you sense Bayern will feel they’ve steadied the ship and can revert to type when it comes to home matches at the Allianz.
ShareGoal! 20 min: Bayern Munich 1-0 Chelsea (Chalobah OG)
Wonderful work from Olise on the right, and it looks like an own-goal by Chalobah. After Bayern’s free-kick ricocheted off the ref, it was restarted with a drop ball. The former Crystal Palace forward was soon one-on-one with Pedro and he skinned him with ease. Then he put a low ball across the face of goal and Chalobah turned it into his own net with Dayot Upemecano lurking. Did Chelsea switch off a touch after that free-kick was retaken?
The ball cannons off Trevoh Chalobah (second left) and Bayern Munich have the lead. Photograph: Martin Meissner/APAleksandar Pavlovic, Michael Olise, Harry Kane of Bayern Munich and Dayot Upamecano celebrate Chalobah’s misfortune. Photograph: Alex Grimm/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 17.11 EDT
19 min: Bayern suddenly have Chelsea where they want them, streaming forward and massing their ranks around the penalty area. Gnabry has a shot blocked, and again the defensive hunger from Chelsea is excellent. The hosts have a free-kick about 30 yards out. Kimmich tries to slide it diagonally but it hits the referee’s boot and it’s a drop ball.
17 min: Pedro is clattered by Tah as he tries to turn away from his marker. It’s a handy position for a free-kick, halfway inside the Bayern half, but they play it backwards. Neto makes a run on the left, chasing a ball from Cucurella, but Pedro is caught offside in the process.
14 min: Palmer turns superbly around halfway, using his skill and power. He lofts a good-looking ball for Neto on the left but it’s cut out. Bayern then win a free-kick for a handball at very close quarters, that is clearly accidental, and on commentary Glenn Hoddle insists the law is a nonsense – before Bayern take the set-piece.
Bayern take it short, Olise clips a cross to the far post, but Chelsea step up and several home players are offside when the cross comes over. Again, Chelsea look the better-coached side based on that little exchange.
Updated at 15.18 EDT
10 min: Bayern’s players look just slightly rattled by Chelsea’s high-tempo opening. Now they get a foot on it – Stanisic plays inside for Kane, who can’t control – then Gnabry makes a perky run on the left and hammers a shot wide from outside the area.
Chelsea come again, down the right, where they are getting a lot of joy against Tah and Stanisic. And yet again they attack down that side, winning a corner, that leads to a headed chance for Cucurella! The former Brighton man nods it wide. Chelsea are significantly the better team here after nearly a quarter of an hour.
Updated at 15.15 EDT