Chelsea suffered an early set-back on their return to the Champions League as Bayern Munich raced right into a two-goal lead earlier than Cole Palmer pulled one again on the Allianz Enviornment.
A Trevor Chalobah personal aim and Harry Kane penalty put the German champions in a commanding place approaching the half-hour mark, earlier than Palmer completed sublimely to halve the deficit.
On Enzo Maresca’s teaching debut in Europe’s elite competitors, the Blues started brightly on the web site the place the membership lifted their first-ever Champions League trophy in 2012.
Nevertheless, they shortly discovered themselves in bother as Chalobah turned the ball into his personal web below strain from Dayot Upamecano, after a harmful Michael Olise cross.
Little over 5 minutes later, Kane doubled the hosts’ benefit when he received and dispatched a penalty following a problem from Moises Caicedo.
However simply two minutes later, Maresca’s males got a lifeline when Palmer clipped an exquisite effort previous Manuel Neuer, who was making his 151st look within the competitors, and into the roof of the aim.
It introduced Chelsea firmly again into the tie and so they ended the half simply as they began it.
