Chelsea: Todd Boehly makes outlandish Real Madrid prediction

Jacque Talbot

• 12 Apr 2023 18:03 BST
• 3 min read

Chelsea co-owner Todd Boehly has made the outlandish claim that his side will beat Real Madrid 3-0.

The two teams play in the Champions League tonight for the quarterfinals of the competition. Despite both playing at the Santiago Bernabeu, the businessman expects his side to win by a comfortable margin.

Boehly was seen ahead of the game with Sky Sports, leaving after he was having a meal. A journalist asked for a prediction for the game. Boehly replied: "Chelsea is going to win 3-0.".

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And he then continued: "I say have a lot of faith and we are going to win 3-0 tonight."

Chelsea have had something of a torrid campaign this season but remain in contention for winning the Champions League.

They recently dismissed Graham Potter from the manager's role after a string of poor results and put in charge Frank Lampard, club legend and former coach of the side, on an interim basis.

Lampard acknowledges tough game

Speaking ahead of the game against last season’s La Liga and Champions League winners, Lampard said: "We have to understand the strengths of the Real Madrid team, their qualities in possession and their individual talent," the former midfielder turned manager told the press before the clash. "We have to be very disciplined in our game off the ball, and understand the threats.

He continued: "There are some very clear threats individually in their team. Ways Real Madrid like to score and regularly score and how they want to control the game. So we have to be defensively good against that. But we also have to show our own strengths in our game.

"We have to have belief, we have to follow the idea because in a high-level game the biggest thing can sometimes be the mentality – following through with what the idea is, under pressure. At this level, you have to be spot-on with our game to take it back to Stamford Bridge in front of our supporters."

Los Blancos are one of the favourites to win the competition, while Chelsea are coming back off a loss to Wolves over the weekend.