Chelsea vs Valencia
Champions League Group H
8:00pm Tuesday 17th September
Stamford Bridge
Team news, essential stats and predictions before Chelsea vs Valencia since the Champions League group stages start.
Antonio Rudiger won’t feature from action because of a groin problem with Emerson on Tuesday Regardless of creating a return in the weekend.
N’Golo Kante, Callum Hudson-Odoi come back in training after their traumas but are not yet match fit.
Valencia have a complete squad available for the visit however are all with no permanent harm absentees Carlos Soler and Cristiano Piccini.
Chelsea and Valencia have met six times before in Western competition, with the Spanish club not winning one of these games (D3 L3).
The only club which Chelsea have faced as often in European competition without dropping because they have against Valencia (six matches: W3 D3) is German club FC Schalke 04 (six matches: W4 D2).
Chelsea did not lose one match in European rivalry winning 12 and drawing three of the 15 games at the UEFA Europa League on the way to qualifying for your 2019-20 UEFA Champions League and winning the final.
Chelsea’s 12 wins at the 2018-19 UEFA Europa League has just been bettered after in a major UEFA European contest (excluding qualifiers) inside a single year: Atletico Madrid at 2011-12 (13 wins, also from 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 they made it to the knockout stages of the contest, before being knocked from Paris Saint-Germain at the last 16.
Frank Lampard will take charge of a UEFA Champions League game for the very first time in his career. As a Chelsea player, he is one of just 22 players and made 102 appearances at the contest to have played in the contest with the same club.
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