Champions League: Serge Gnarby Leads Bayern Munich To Thrash Chelsea In First Leg Tie

Chelsea opened the knockout stages with a disastrous 3-0 home loss to Bayern Munich inspired by Roberto Lewandowski with superb assists resulted in him and Serge Gnarby doing the scoring for the Germans to take the victory in the first leg tie of the Round of 16.

The first half went through goalless but that was not without scoring threats from Lewandoski, Kingsley Coman, and Thomas Muller. Coman first opened the threat with a right-footed shot that missed the goal just an inch and Muller's head from close range clipped the crossbar.

Blues did have a fair share in goal attempts in the first half until after the break when they were simply overridden by Lewandoski and Gnarby and two goals were recorded in a space of three minutes.

Both Lewandowski and Gnarby did a one-two pass in front of the box before Gnarby smashed in the opener and Gnarby repeated the same move with the Polish forward minutes later to double the lead in the 54th minutes.

Robert Lewandowski had assisted in the first two goals before scoring the decider in Bayern Munich's 3-0 win over Chelsea at Stanford Bridge 

Lewandowski finally the winning by tapping a through pass from Coman and shortly after that Marcos Alonso was red-carded for body contact with Lewandowski, leaving Blues to play the rest of the game one man down.

Blues made an effort to improve on the attack with the introduction of Tammy Abraham came in as a sub for Olivier Giroud and Willian came in for Ross Barkley, in spite of that, the Germans showed high-level quality. Even when Tammy was tripped in the box the referee waved it off.

Speaking after the match, Frank Lampard slammed his team for "poor performance" at home against the Germans stating he will have to be "honest" with them as he expressed his displeasure in the outcome.

He added, "The level of team they are is why they challenge in the Bundesliga and Europe year in year out. I'm disappointed we couldn't do more against them."