Nevin added on 5 Stay: “It wasn’t fairly males towards boys, however Bayern Munich had been definitely a long way forward of Chelsea right here.

“The errors Chelsea made had been fairly naive and so they had been caught out, not only for the objectives, however for a complete raft of possibilities other than that. That is what occurs with younger gamers enjoying on this competitors, however they’ll be taught from that.

“This stage is elite. It’s a bounce. And that bounce could take them a short while.”

Inexperience could properly have been a problem: In Munich, Chelsea fielded their third-youngest ever Champions League group.

Their complete 24-man squad went into Wednesday’s match with simply 117 appearances within the competitors between them. Against this, goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, 39, has performed 131 occasions within the Champions League for Bayern Munich alone.

His team-mates Kane, Joshua Kimmich and Serge Gnabry have substantial expertise at this stage. Against this, Chelsea pair Caicedo and Marc Cucurella had been making their debuts within the competitors regardless of being among the many group’s star names.

Even head coach Maresca, a part of Pep Guardiola’s workers throughout Manchester Metropolis’s 2023 Treble-winning marketing campaign, could must step as much as this stage.

It felt as if a 3rd Bayern objective was coming for a couple of minutes earlier than Kane scored it – however Maresca appeared sluggish to react, and solely made adjustments after his group had gone 3-1 down.

It was too little, all too late.