Telegraph Sport – ‘Boehly’s 3-0 brag backfires’
Real Madrid’s 2-0 victory at home to Frank Lampard’s Chelsea in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final dominates today’s back pages.
The Telegraph says Todd Boehly had arrogantly predicted a 3-0 win for Chelsea but that was as deluded as buying a club for £2.5billion, spending more than £600million on players and not even signing a centre-forward.
Instead of the smugness of his expected victory Chelsea’s co-owner was only the five goals out as he sat in Real Madrid’s stadium to see the Champions League holders take a firm grip of this quarter-final.
“Chelsea is going to win 3-0. I say have a lot of faith and we are going to win 3-0 tonight,” Boehly had said on his way to the game but that numb, dumb faith was dwindling long before the end as his expensively-assembled team were reduced to 10-men for the final half hour after Ben Chilwell’s dismissal.
