Chelsea v Borussia Dortmund: Champions League last 16, second leg – live
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**Borussia Dortmund get the ball rolling.** Meanwhile Charles Antaki has just
got back to his seat from the snack kiosk, just in time. “Why not try a hot
dog? Why not indeed - who could resist that unctuous, not-quite-BBC voice? As
it happens, I don’t think any of the cinemas I used to go to in my youth
actually had hotdogs (and if they did, they would be very suspicious). But you
could get certainly get Kia-Ora in some remarkably uncool plastic cartons. _Ou
sont les neiges d’antan?_ Not in the local Enormo-Plex, I suspect.”
**The teams are out!** A hot atmosphere on a cold night at Stamford Bridge.
Chelsea wear their royal blue shirts, while Dortmund sport their first-choice
_gelbe und schwarze Hemden._The Liquidator, followed by the Uefa-sanctioned
bastardisation of Zadok the Priest, blasts out of the PA system. Meanwhile
Brendan Large would like to counter the teeming pre-match postbag o’pessimism
with some countdown-to-kickoff correspondence o’confidence. “James and
Chilwell starting at wing-back together is big (fairly certain the injuries
happened after Tuchel got the boot). If the back three can hold firm those two
can make chances all day. Joao Felix has been brilliant and just needs to
adjust his shooting boots a touch to hit the target and not the bar. Sterling
and Havertz are great finishers on their day also.” Godspeed, everyone, then,
may the best team win. We’ll be off, at long last, in a couple of minutes.
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