{"id":470559,"date":"2026-03-12T00:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T00:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/470559\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T00:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T00:43:10","slug":"psg-give-chelsea-mountain-to-climb-after-another-keeper-calamity-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/470559\/","title":{"rendered":"PSG give Chelsea mountain to climb after another keeper calamity | Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"

The one consolation for Filip \u00adJ\u00f6rgensen is there was no \u00adpublic humiliation from his manager. Even so, for all that Liam \u00adRosenior was never going to do an Igor Tudor and hook his goalkeeper<\/a>, the \u00adembarrassment was vast.<\/p>\n

It was why a goalkeeper passing out from the back looks clever until the moment it goes wrong. By full-time it was hard to see a way back for Chelsea after an implosion allowed Paris Saint-Germain<\/a> to storm into a 5-2 lead before heading to Stamford Bridge for the second leg of this last\u201116 Champions League tie.<\/p>\n

The frustration was immense. Chelsea impressed here, twice \u00adpegging back a thrilling, but \u00addefensively suspect PSG. For 74 \u00adminutes, it was a riposte to those who said their win over the European champions <\/a>in the Club World Cup final<\/a> was a one-off.<\/p>\n

For the next 20 minutes, though, it was a tale of J\u00f6rgensen donating a goal to Vitinha to put PSG 3-2 up, Pedro Neto avoiding a red card for shoving a ballboy and Khvicha Kvaratskheli coming on to turn a tight game into a thrashing with two late goals.<\/p>\n

It was hard to look past the \u00addropping of Robert S\u00e1nchez and \u00adbringing J\u00f6rgensen in for his 10th start of the season. After the farce of Tottenham\u2019s experiment with Antonin Kinsky against Atl\u00e9tico Madrid, another huge goalkeeping call backfired.<\/p>\n

Why now? S\u00e1nchez has wobbled recently, but his direct kicking was a big feature of Chelsea<\/a> thumping PSG. By making the change, the danger is Rosenior has undermined both of his goalkeepers. S\u00e1nchez\u2019s confidence will be hit by confirmation he is no longer Chelsea\u2019s No 1 while J\u00f6rgensen must recover from unravelling in the biggest game of his career.<\/p>\n

Enzo Fern\u00e1ndez, the vice-\u00adcaptain, threw the ball at J\u00f6rgensen and remonstrated with the Dane when another poor clearance led to PSG having a goal ruled out for offside. Disaster had already struck by then. It was 2-2 when J\u00f6rgensen \u00adblundered. His pass was intercepted by Bradley Barcola, Kvaratshkelia teed up Vitinha and the midfielder lifted an insouciant lob over J\u00f6rgensen.<\/p>\n

There was irony in Rosenior \u00adturning to J\u00f6rgensen because of his passing ability. It is the cruellest position on the pitch. With PSG 1-0 up through an early strike from Barcola, J\u00f6rgensen made a couple of excellent saves to keep Chelsea in it. It could have been his night. In a way it was, just for the wrong reason.<\/p>\n

It led to a collapse. Rosenior blamed himself for his young side\u2019s inability to manage the situation. A 3-2 defeat would not have been the worst result. Chelsea even had a third goal ruled out for a tight offside.<\/p>\n

It did not even feel insurmountable when Kvaratshkelia whipped in the fourth goal in the 86th minute. Instead of digging in, though, \u00adRosenior made an attacking change, Alejandro Garnacho replacing Malo Gusto, and when Chelsea lost their shape deep into added time Achraf Hakimi had room to cross for \u00adKvaratshkelia to score again. The scoreline was harsh, but a reflection of Chelsea\u2019s naivety.<\/p>\n

Both sides employed high-wire \u00adpressing systems and PSG were oddly \u00advulnerable. There was space behind their full-backs, Marquinhos toiled in central defence and Fabi\u00e1n Ruiz was missed in midfield.<\/p>\n

Yet Chelsea were fragile against a stacked PSG attack. With Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 fit to start with Barcola and Desire Dou\u00e9, they punished \u00adpassive defending in the 10th minute. \u00adDemb\u00e9l\u00e9 crossed, Jo\u00e3o Neves nodded down and Barcola had time to take a touch before lashing PSG ahead.<\/p>\n

Khvicha Kvaratskelia shows his delight after scoring. Photograph: Matthieu Mirville\/DPPI\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

PSG looked for more, Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 and Barcola testing J\u00f6rgensen\u2019s reflexes. Chelsea played with poise, though, with Reece James and Mois\u00e9s Caicedo offering stability in the middle. Neto had space on the left and the leveller was not a surprise, Fern\u00e1ndez finding Gusto in an insulting amount of space and the right-back\u2019s shot squirming past Matvei Safonov.<\/p>\n

Conceding such a soft goal again raised the question of why PSG sold Gianluigi Donnarumma. Then again Safonov did make a crucial block to stop Cole Palmer from making it 2-1. It was a crucial intervention given the ball was in Chelsea\u2019s net 14 seconds later.<\/p>\n

Trevoh Chalobah and Caicedo sold themselves as PSG surged. Dou\u00e9 released Demb\u00e9l\u00e9, who had to pass. Hakimi, the PSG right-back, made a lung-busting run to his left. But Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 backed himself. He chopped back to beat Wesley Fofana and drilled a low shot past J\u00f6rgensen. No wonder he won the Ballon d\u2019Or<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Quick GuideBod\u00f8\/Glimt eye quarter-finals after stunning SportingShow\"\"<\/p>\n

Another stellar display on their artificial home turf at the Aspmyra Stadion gave Norway\u2019s Bod\u00f8\/Glimt a 3-0 win over Sporting in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie. The Portuguese side joined the long list of big-name European clubs that have made the journey to the little fishing town inside the Arctic Circle and came away empty-handed as Bod\u00f8 romped to an easy victory that puts them in the driving seat for a spot in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n

Luis Su\u00e1rez blazed an early chance over the bar for the visitors but after that the hosts took over, and went ahead just after the half-hour mark after Georgios Vagiannidis bundled over Sondre Brunstad Fet in the box. The midfielder confidently stroked home the penalty he had won to give his side the lead.<\/p>\n

The hosts were 2-0 up by the break, and though there was a slice of luck involved as Jens Petter Hauge\u2019s through ball deflected into the path of Ole Didrik Blomberg (pictured), there was nothing fortunate about his superb finish from a tight angle to double Bod\u00f8’s advantage.<\/p>\n

Sporting showed a glimmer of attacking intent to start the second half but it was quickly snuffed out, and the hosts should have gone three up in the 55th minute after the ball pinged around in the box before eventually going out of play, with the Bod\u00f8 defender Jostein Gundersen heading the resulting corner straight at the goalkeeper Rui Silva.<\/p>\n

In total control of the game, Bod\u00f8 grabbed the third goal their efforts deserved when the striker Kasper H\u00f8gh rounded off another fairytale effort, stealing between two defenders to deftly steer Hauge\u2019s low cross into the net from close range.<\/p>\n

The 3-0 win, Bod\u00f8\u2019s fifth straight victory in the competition, leaves Sporting with a mountain to climb in the second leg, which will take place in Lisbon on Tuesday. Reuters<\/p>\n

Photograph: Fredrik Varfjell\/NTB Scanpix<\/p>\n

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There was a lull after half-time. PSG tried to exert control. There were a lot of loose touches, though, and Chelsea scored again when Neto capitalised on an error from Nuno Mendes, ran past Marquinhos and crossed for Fern\u00e1ndez to equalise.<\/p>\n

The game was drifting before \u00adJ\u00f6rgensen crumbled. It never should have ended with Chelsea\u2019s hopes of going through resting on a heroic comeback next Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The one consolation for Filip \u00adJ\u00f6rgensen is there was no \u00adpublic humiliation from his manager. Even so, for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-470559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}