Chelsea and Graham Potter backed for success after ‘huge’ Champions League win over Borussia Dortmund

Chelsea and Graham Potter have been backed to show their season round by BT Sport’s pundits after their momentous Champions League win over Borussia Dortmund.

The Blues and their beleaguered boss have limped by way of the beginning of 2023, with goalscoring a selected drawback.

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Talking pitchside at a thronging Stamford Bridge, Rio Ferdinand mentioned: “Main into this recreation, the previous few months, these gamers – not solely the supervisor, the supervisor’s been below a number of stress – the gamers as properly, being criticised.

“A whole lot of these gamers have been used to success, been used to being known as greats and good gamers.

“However they’ve had a time frame the place the finger’s being pointed at them – ‘what are you going to do’.

“And this can be a second at the moment – and you may sense it with the gamers with the grins on their faces – [that shows] what this implies to this membership and the people as properly.

“They have to take this on now, suck this sense up, take it within the changing-room and let it proceed.”

Ex-Chelsea winger Joe Cole was a kind of gamers for whom success was commonplace throughout his time on the membership, and he felt this could possibly be a “enormous” second of their evolution below Potter.

“Take pleasure in it,” Cole started.

“There’s enormous stress to play for any high membership however specifically Chelsea through the years as a result of you realize – below the final regime – you lose two or three, 4 video games, the supervisor will likely be out of the door, the brand new supervisor won’t such as you.

“So that you’re by no means snug. Nobody at this membership has ever been snug, no gamers.

“It is an enormous second for Chelsea. You will not need to be taking part in Chelsea over the following couple of weeks.”

Owen Hargreaves, a veteran of two Champions League title wins with Bayern Munich and Manchester United, added: “Soccer’s a rollercoaster.

“This can be a enormous second for Chelsea, they’ve had a troublesome season. This might flip every thing round for them.”