Real Madrid v Chelsea: Time for Timo Werner to join stellar cast of unlikely lads in Champions League – The Warm-Up

TUESDAY’S BIG STORIES Chelsea chase the 'almost impossible' in Madrid Ad/> Not everyone can win the Ballon d’Or. Only a select few will get the chance to threaten the medal hauls of Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Wes Brown. But every pro footballer can dream of being a moments player, elevating themselves to cult hero status with one single kick.

Champions League'Unlikely Chelsea make semi-finals' — Tuchel plays down chances against Real MadridA DAY AGO The annals of European football are punctuated by unlikely lads, including an impressive cast of Premier League players who have masterminded their very own Lazarus comeback. Massimo Maccarone and his refusal to get amongst it before the 89th minute in Middlesbrough’s run to the 2006 UEFA Cup final. Clint Dempsey and the mad chip that sent Juventus crashing out to Fulham in the 2010 Europa League quarter-finals.

Divock Origi tuning in his big-game bottle to help overturn Barcelona in the 2019 Champions League semi-finals. It doesn’t stop there. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

Lucas Moura. Jerzy Dudek. All are part of the special history of English teams facing the impossible on the continent.

It's good news for Thomas Tuchel. The Blues boss is craving a «fantastic script» as Chelsea head to the Bernabeu tonight hoping to overturn a 3-1 deficit from their calamitous quarter-final opener. And with their usual attacking hope sidelined — the sometimes-in-form-usually-out-of-form Romelu Lukaku — could it be time for another unsung hero to emerge? It’s happened before at Chelsea when in April 2012, Fernando Torres flicked the ball around Victor Valdes in the Camp Nou and stroked into an empty net.