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Man City vs Chelsea: Eduoard Mendy makes Champions League history

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Chelsea goalkeeper, Edouard Mendy, has set a Champions League file having been picked to start out the ultimate in opposition to Manchester Metropolis.

The Senegalese stopper turns into the primary African goalkeeper to play in a UEFA Champions League ultimate.

Mendy can be the primary since Bruce Grobbelaar in 1985 together with the outdated European Cup.

Grobbelaar, a former Zimbabwe international, was additionally in purpose for Liverpool a yr earlier when the Reds defeated AS Roma at Stadio Olimpico, Rome to win the European Cup ultimate in 1984.

In 1985, Grobbelaar and Liverpool misplaced the European Cup ultimate 1-0 in opposition to Juventus at Heysel Stadium in Brussels, Belgium.

Mendy was signed from Ligue 1 outfit Rennes in a £22m ($31m) deal because the six-time English top-flight kings sought to search out larger stability between the sticks, as expensive errors had crept into Kepa Arrizabalaga’s sport.