John Terry Changed Chelsea’s Penalty Kick Order Vs MUFC Before His Slip – Makalele

Chelsea legend, Claude Makelele, has come out to blast John Terry for changing the team’s penalty order in the 2008 UCL final vs Manchester United. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, Terry tried to be a hero with his penalty kick by deciding to replace Kalou who was supposed to be the final kicker, and that made Chelsea lose in the final.

Makelele added that Terry simply had to be a leader and do what was best for the team, but he did otherwise.

His words, “The dressing room after the game was like fire. There was no happiness whatsoever – it was a sad place to be.

We made a big mistake ahead of the penalties. We had an order which was agreed with the players and the manager, but it changed at the last minute.

It was supposed to be Salomon Kalou taking the last penalty but John [Terry] took the opportunity off him.

I think we lost this competition because football is very harsh sometimes and, if you don’t do things the right way, you get punished.

I was very angry when he missed the penalty because it was a chance that I knew a lot of the young players wouldn’t get.

I’d won the Champions League before but, in this moment, John had to be the leader and do what was best for the team.

He didn’t make sure we won the trophy, he tried to be a hero. If he knew this, he would have been a hero because he would have lifted the trophy.”

WOW.

Chelsea Football Club is an English professional football club based in Fulham, West London. Founded in 1905, they play their home games at Stamford Bridge.

The club competes in the Premier League, the top division of English football. They won their first major honour, the League championship, in 1955. The club won the FA Cup for the first time in 1970, their first European honour, the Cup Winners’ Cup, in 1971, and became the third English club to win the Club World Cup in 2022.

On 7 May 2022, Chelsea confirmed that terms have been agreed for a new ownership group, led by Todd Boehly, Clearlake Capital, Mark Walter and Hansjörg Wyss, to acquire the club. The group was later known as BlueCo.

The UK government approved the £4.25bn takeover, ending Abramovich’s 19-year ownership of the club. Bruce Buck, who served as chairman since 2003, was replaced by Boehly, while long-serving club director and de facto sporting director Marina Granovskaia left, as did Petr Čech from the role of technical and performance advisor.