Chelsea rubbed salt in Borussia Dortmund's wounds by trolling the German heavyweights on Twitter after dumping them out of the Champions League.
The Blues pulled off a well-deserved 2-0 win at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday, turning the tie around having lost the first leg 1-0 away from home three weeks ago. Graham Potter's side marched on to the quarter-finals and relieved significant pressure on their under-fire manager, who reportedly needed to progress to the last eight of the competition to avoid being sacked.
Revelling in Chelsea's second victory in four days, following a narrow 1-0 win against Leeds on Saturday, the club's Twitter admin mocked losers Dortmund after an incident in the first leg. When the Bundesliga title chasers took a second-half lead through Karim Adeyemi, a home fan is said to have thrown a pint of beer towards the press box which poured over reporters' laptops.
"Sorry for the delay, admin's just been hit by a pint from above," a post from Chelsea's official account read. Following up the tweet after Tuesday's triumph, they cheekily wrote: "Anyone for a beer?"
The jibe has received more than 21,000 likes, with Blues supporters enjoying a rare moment of celebration in what's largely been a wretched season. Goals from Raheem Sterling and Kai Havertz - courtesy of a controversial penalty retake after missing his first effort - either side of half-time saw Chelsea reach the quarter-finals, as their turnaround showed the kind of character that Potter was desperate see.
"The players were tremendous and the supporters were tremendous," the Blues boss hailed. "We had to be against a team that were doing so well. Over the two games I felt that we deserved to go through.
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"It was a special night. To win a game and go into the last eight of the Champions League, it's up there with one of the games or evenings of my career."
First-half goalscorer Sterling added: "It was a massive performance. We had to dig deep. We took our chances. We felt as a team we could do it. I had a little mis-kick with the first touch but it landed perfectly and allowed us to build on that for our performance."
Havertz, who was allowed to retake his penalty after VAR spotted a Dortmund player encroaching the 18-yard box, admitted: "The last two weeks were hard, we lost a lot of games. Tonight was important this is a big tournament and it's the last trophy that we can win. We showed character and that we want to keep going."
