Chelsea V Barcelona: Champions League – Live

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Chelsea make 5 changes to their starting XI aft nan 2-0 triumph astatine Burnley connected Saturday. Moisés Caicedo, Estêvão, Alejandro Garnacho, Wesley Fofana and Malo Gusto travel successful for João Pedro, Andrey Santos, Liam Delap, Jamie Gittens and Tosin Adarabioyo, each of whom driblet to nan bench.

Barcelona person plentifulness of goals successful their starting XI. Ferran Torres leads nan measurement pinch 9 truthful acold this season, while Robert Lewandowski has eight, Fermín López seven, and Lamine Yamal six. Marcus Rashford (six) and Raphinha (three) must make do pinch nan bench.

The teams

Chelsea: Sanchez, Gusto, Fofana, Chalobah, Cucurella, James, Caicedo, Estevao, Fernandez, Garnacho, Pedro Neto.
Subs: Jorgensen, Adarabioyo, Badiashile, Delap, Bynoe-Gittens, Santos, Joao Pedro, Hato, George, Acheampong, Guiu, Buonanotte.

Barcelona: Joan Garcia, Kounde, Araujo, Cubarsi, Balde, Eric Garcia, de Jong, Yamal, Lopez, Torres, Lewandowski.
Subs: Szczesny, Kochen, Raphinha, Rashford, Christensen, Casado, Gerard, Olmo, Bernal, Dro Fernandez, Bardghji.

Referee: Slavko Vincic (Slovenia).

Preamble

For some, nan modern rivalry betwixt Chelsea and Barcelona will everlastingly beryllium defined by this ...

… and for others by this …

… but whichever measurement you for illustration it, much often than not it delivers. Goals! Memories! Drama! Throw successful Chelsea’s grounds of scoring successful each of their past 19 European games, Barcelona uncovering nan nett successful their past 24 Champions League fixtures, nan truth that nary of Chelsea’s past 52 European fixtures person vanished 0-0, and nan stat of Barca’s past 20 Champions League games producing an mean of 4.8 goals per 90 minutes, and this promises to beryllium a doozy. Kick-off is astatine 8pm GMT, and if by pointing retired each of this, we’ve tempted nan Football Gods into serving up a uncommon stinker, past we’ll make our apologies aft nan game. It’s on!