Chelsea vs Valencia
Champions League Group H
8:00pm Tuesday 17th September
Stamford Bridge
Team news, predictions and essential stats ahead of Chelsea vs Valencia as the Champions League group stages begin.
Antonio Rudiger won’t feature out of action because of a groin problem with Emerson on Tuesday despite making a return at the weekend.
N’Golo Kante, Reece James, Callum Hudson-Odoi come back in training after their respective traumas but aren’t yet fit fit.
Valencia have a full squad available for the visit to London, but are all with no harm absentees Carlos Soler and Cristiano Piccini.
Chelsea and Valencia have met six times previously in Western competition, with the Spanish club not winning any of these matches (D3 L3).
The only club which Chelsea have faced as frequently in European competition without losing because they have against Valencia (six matches: W3 D3) is German team FC Schalke 04 (six matches: W4 D2).
Chelsea didn’t lose a game in competition winning 12 and drawing three of the 15 games in the UEFA Europa League about the best way to winning the closing and qualifying for the 2019-20 UEFA Champions League.
Chelsea’s 12 wins at the 2018-19 UEFA Europa League has just been bettered once in a significant UEFA European competition (excluding qualifiers) inside a single season: Atletico Madrid in 2011-12 (13 wins, too in the UEFA Europa League).
Valencia have attained the UEFA Champions League in consecutive seasons for the first time because 2012-13 (three in a row), which was also the last time that they made it into the knockout stages of the contest, before being knocked from Paris Saint-Germain in the last 16.
Frank Lampard will take control of a UEFA Champions League match for the first time in his managerial career. He is among just 22 players and made 102 appearances to have played in the contest with exactly the club.
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