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The Blues boss saw his side suffer a costly home defeat in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final clash with La Liga heavyweights.

Thomas Tuchel has bemoaned what could prove to be a costly miss from Romelu Lukaku in the first leg of Chelsea’s Champions League quarter-final tie with Real Madrid, while also admitting to getting his tactics wrong in a 3-1 defeat.

The Blues welcomed La Liga heavyweights to Stamford Bridge hoping to establish momentum ahead of a tricky visit to Santiago Bernabeu, but the defence of a prestigious European crown now appears to be all but over after Karim Benzema hit a stunning hat-trick in west London.

Kai Havertz did offer Chelsea hope at one stage, when he halved the deficit five minutes before the break, but some uncharacteristically sloppy defending and a spurned opportunity from second-half substitute Lukaku means that a continental mountain must now be climbed in the Spanish capital.