Chelsea, champions of Europe in charged, got a 2-0 win over French title holder On Tuesday Lille, while the Juventus-Villarreal match ended in a 1-1 draw after Dusan Vlahovic had a dream in a Champions debut.
Headed by the German Kai Havertz home eight minutes in game which saw Chelsea striker Romelu Lukaku in Park bench. American Christian Pulisic got the second leave the Blues in control of tie.
In Villarreal, in Serbia international Vlahovic scored 31 seconds in his UEFA debut after € 80m ($ 91m) move to Fiorentina’s Juve in January. But Dani Parejo equalized in the 66th for the Europa League champion from Spain.
The return legs in They are Lille and Turin on March 16.
Havertz, who marked the winner in last yearThe Champions League final against Manchester City e in the Club World Cup final against Palmeiras 10 days ago, he was a threat from the start at Stamford Bridge.
He missed two good opportunity, but then came the third time lucky in the eighth minute when he hit his head home by Hakim Ziyech corner football.
Havertz almost took a second in at 59th but Pulisic then did better four minutes later when he chipped over Lilac goalkeeper Leo Jardim off N’Golo Kante.
Lukaku, who it had a modest show in the weekend league win at the Crystal Palace, no play, with manager stating Thomas Tuchel fatigue.
“We have a lot of good forwards so it is good have a change and don’t make it easy for our opponent”, Havertz insisted.
“We didn’t play our best and it was hard. We didn’t get our usual aggression but us won 2-0. We have a lot of Possibility of win other trophy. “
Juventus held
In the meantime, Juve had a dream start in his first- never meet with Villarreal when Vlahovic controls a long ball by the defender Danilo and between two defenders found the bottom left corner just 31 seconds from the start game.
“It was huge score on my debut; it was very exciting, “said Vlahovic.” However, I can’t be 100% satisfied because we don’t have won the game. We have to keep working hard. “
StatsPerform said Vlahovic only became third player to score within one minute of opening of his first Champions League start, joining Andrea Moller of Borussia Dortmund 1995 against Juventus and Ishak Belfodil of Hoffenheim against Manchester City in 2018.
Young lo Celso of Villarreal hit the left outside post in at 13th but the hosts get a draw in 66 when he drove unmarked Parejo on a splinter ball by Etienne Capoue.
