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First chance of the game as Lille veteran Burak Yilmaz hammers one in from outside the box. It's blocked by Thiago Silva and goes behind for a corner, which is cleared.

Zeki Celik is caught offside too easily on the right wing for Lille and Chelsea have a free-kick. The French side have started quite well.

Leon Osman
Former Everton midfielder on 91Èȱ¬ Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

Kai Havertz was unlucky there, trying to get around the back - he has started the game well and looks like he is really up for it this evening.

This is Marcos Alonso's 200th Chelsea appearance.

Good defending by Sven Botman to slide in on Kai Havertz and win a goal-kick as the ball hits the Chelsea man before going behind.

And we're under way in Turin as well.

Gabriel Gudmundsson wins an early corner for Lille but Kai Havertz heads away Jonathan Bamba's set-piece.

Leon Osman
Former Everton midfielder on 91Èȱ¬ Radio 5 Live

Quite often we see Chelsea with a front three and the midfielders join in - I think considering they have already won the first leg 2-0 and come here with that to protect, they don't need to expose the middle of the field.

Let's do this.

It's a lively atmosphere in Lille. Their fans believe they can turn this round.

Leon Osman
Former Everton midfielder on 91Èȱ¬ Radio 5 Live

Thomas Tuchel has picked a very secure, possession-based team - they will enjoy keeping the ball and then look for Pulisic and Havertz to put this game to bed.

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Lille have lost each of their three Champions League matches with Chelsea - two group matches in 2019-20 and the first leg of this tie.

No team have ever beaten them four times in the Champions League...

Tonight's other tie is delicately poised between Juventus and Villarreal.

They drew the first leg 1-1 in Spain.

Villarreal boss Unai Emery said: "We don't want Villarreal to be something ephemeral in the Champions League, we want to be here to stay.

"Winning against a club like Juventus means the opportunity to keep competing at the European level.

"We want to build around defined structures so we can stay here long-term... It's wonderful to be in the Champions League and we don't want to leave."

Simon Gleave
Head of sports analysis, Nielsen Gracenote

Chelsea are currently the fifth best team in Europe according to the . As the Blues hold a 2-0 lead from the first leg against Lille (ranked 33 by the Euro Club Index), Chelsea have 94% chance of winning this Champions League tie.

In the other match Juventus (ECI ranked ninth) host Villarreal (18) after drawing 1-1 in Spain in the first leg. Juventus' superior standing and home advantage means that they are given 69% chance of reaching the Champions League last eight.

Chelsea

Chelsea will avoid a 10-hour round trip by bus for their FA Cup tie at Middlesbrough on Saturday after the government increased its cap for away travel as part of the club's operating licence.

The cap was set at £20,000 after owner Roman Abramovich was sanctioned, as part of a set of conditions to allow the club to run day-to-day.

But the one-off increase will allow the team to fly to the north-east for the quarter-final tie.

Chelsea's players and staff flew to Lille for Wednesday's Champions League tie because it was already arranged prior to the sanctions.

A Chelsea spokesman said: "We are grateful for the government's continued attention to our requests for amendments to the licence."

The government has already increased spending for home matches from £500,000 to £900,000 with talks continuing over ticket, retail and merchandise revenue.

Leon Osman
Former Everton midfielder on 91Èȱ¬ Radio 5 Live

I always think this team have enough to score, whether on the pitch or with players from the bench, so they will not only be expecting to go through in this tie but will expect to win this game this evening.

Kai Havertz says Chelsea's players would pay for their own travel to away games if it came to it.

"I would pay it, it's not a problem. That isn't a big deal," he said.

"For us to come to the games is the most important thing. There are harder things in the world right now than if we have to take the bus or plane to an away game.

"We are professionals and sometimes situations like this can happen. It's not easy for us, for the whole club and the fans. What we can do is to play good football and try to give the fans a smile in this situation.

"As we showed at the weekend, we can handle these situations."

Juventus have been European champions twice - 1984-85 and 1995-96 - and last reached the Champions League final in 2016-17, losing 4-1 to Real Madrid.

However, since then Juve went out in the quarter-finals two years running and then in both 2019-20 and 2020-21 fell at the last-16 hurdle, eliminated by Lyon and Porto respectively.

In both the past two years, Juventus have gone out on the away goals rule, but they don't have to worry about that anymore and if the scores are level at 90 minutes the match will go to extra time instead.

Each of Chelsea’s last 11 wins in the Champions League have come with a clean sheet, 10 of them under Thomas Tuchel in just 14 matches.

Tuchel at Chelsea has equalled a joint record in the competition for the fewest games needed to record their 10th clean sheet at a club, alongside Fabio Capello (AC Milan), Jose Mourinho (Real Madrid), and Louis van Gaal (Ajax).