Araujo 2, Ferran 4 | Chelsea 3-0 Barcelona: Player ratings

Barcelona’s journey to Stamford Bridge turned out to be a nightmare after the Catalans had been pressured to play near an hour with ten males.

Chelsea certainly dominated a lot of the first half and outclassed Barcelona in midfield, however the recreation utterly swung of their favour when the Catalan captain Ronald Araujo had himself despatched off.

Taking part in with ten males, Hansi Flick’s males had no likelihood towards the spirited London-based aspect who went on to attain two objectives after the break to seal the 3-0 win within the Champions League.

Barça Common brings you the participant scores from Chelsea 3-0 Barcelona.

John Garcia: 6

The goalkeeper had a tough evening placing up with Chelsea’s incessant assaults and can’t be faulted an excessive amount of for the aim conceded. Did effectively along with his distribution and made runs out of the field to chop off Chelsea’s long-ball induced assaults.

Alejandro Balde: 5

The left-back had a troublesome evening holding off Chelsea’s pacey assault and infrequently struggled to cowl defensively after venturing ahead in assault.

Whereas he did effectively with the offside entice, he was typically outrun by Reece James and Estevao and got here out second greatest.

Pau Cubarsi: 6.5

The teenager confirmed good maturity in holding down Chelsea and even did a good job of it to a sure diploma. He was comfy along with his distribution and held the offside entice to good impact.

Ronald Araujo: 2

On what number of Champions League nights can Araujo hold letting his workforce down? At this level, a giant UCL evening has turn out to be synonymous with the Uruguayan’s errors.

Took an pointless yellow card arguing for a foul that had taken place minutes in the past, after which went on to leap right into a rash problem foolishly to take the crimson card late within the first half and go away the workforce hanging with ten males.

Jules Kounde: 5

Kounde once more had a recreation that was not marred by the slackness which highlighted the primary a part of his marketing campaign.

Sadly, nonetheless, he went down because the participant chargeable for Chelsea’s first aim because it took a deflection off him earlier than going into the again of the web.

Eric Garcia: 4.5

The Spanish ‘swiss-knife’ was performed in a defensive midfield position final evening and was companion to Frenkie de Jong within the division.

On this event, nonetheless, he couldn’t impose his authority in addition to he did on the weekend as Chelsea’s midfield merely outran and outpressed him.

Frenkie de Jong: 4.5

Again within the beginning lineup and entrusted with the accountability of main the midfield on the evening, De Jong merely struggled and understandably so given how dominant Chelsea had been in the course of the park.

Whereas he was first rate along with his distribution, he failed to carry off the hosts’ possession, press them off the ball and maintain off counterattacks.

Fermin Lopez: 4

Lopez’s recreation at Stamford Bridge was something however what he would have appreciated to have proven to the membership he was linked with in the summertime.

Whereas his tenacity was undeniably constructive, he struggled to carry on to the ball and was steadily dispossessed. Was taken off for Andreas Christensen simply previous the hour mark.

Yamal lamina: 5

Yamal had a really silent first half, barely that includes or getting on the ball to good impact. Marc Cucurella did effectively to neutralise his menace as he too didn’t lunge an excessive amount of into taking gamers on.

Didn’t make a lot of a mark after the break both, finishing certainly one of his least influential video games in a very long time.

Ferran Torres: 4

The Spaniard missed an atrocious likelihood within the opening minutes of the sport that he had merely no enterprise placing broad and didn’t persuade in the remainder of his time on the sector as effectively.

Whereas his work charge off the ball was first rate, his runs weren’t effectively timed and he didn’t get into threatening positions half as typically as he ought to have.

Robert Lewandowski: 4.5

The Polish striker couldn’t make the type of affect he would have needed to as he struggled to make it previous Chelsea’s defence all through the primary half.

With the workforce decreased to 10 males, his position solely diminished after the break and he was changed by Raphinha after the hour mark.