Languishing in ninth position in the Premier League table, Chelsea desperately want a refreshing result as they head to start the Champions League knockout match.
The Blues travel to Germany to face Borussia Dortmund in the first leg of the knockout stages, and the challenge will be difficult. Dortmund is third in the Bundesliga standings, just 3 points behind leader Bayern Munich. They have won seven in a row since returning from the World Cup break and it rains goals.
Meanwhile, Chelsea struggled to find consistency and lost problems in each and every shift, unable to combine a full performance. The biggest challenge has been the accumulation of injuries in the team, and the organization is slowly starting to recover. There are still a lot of key players absent from the action.
Below are the lineups of both groups in the most recent news before the match.
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Chelsea boss Graham Potter will have to go through a friend if he needs to get a much-needed result for the Blues when they return from the Champions League.
Their Bundesliga matches are managed by Edin Terzic, who completed his training badges with the same elegance as Potter, and the two have friends.
Former Dortmund player Christian Pulisic is also expected to return to his former club, but he will have to wait for the moment of the stage, as he is lately recovering from injury. Another former Dortmund player, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, has been excluded from Chelsea. Call for the remainder of the Champions League.
Below are the starting lineups for any of the forwards from their adjustment at Signal-Iduna Park on February 15.
Borussia Dortmund showed their line-up (4-5-1): Kobel (GK) – Wolf, Schlotterbeck, Sule, Guerreiro – Ozcan, Emre Can, Adeyemi, Brandt Bellingham – Haller.
Dortmund is usually healthy, but it lacks some players.
Youssoufa Moukoko and Abdoulaye Kamara were beaten over the weekend and missed. Moukoko saw Sebastien Haller, who was returning from testicular cancer, come out in front.
Thomas Meunier continues to return from a muscle injury, while Mateu Morey has been out most of the season with a knee injury. Gio Reyna at the weekend league match with Karim Adeyemi sanctioned for accumulation of yellow cards, but the latter returned against Chelsea.
Chelsea showed their line-up (4-5-1): Arrizabalaga (GK) – James, Thiago Silva, Koulibaly, Chilwell – Ziyech, Fernandez, Loftus-Cheek, Felix, Mudryk – Havertz
Chelsea are slowly going through their injury crisis in the current part of the season, but there is still a lot of work to be done.
Reece James returned to action and a host of players returned to training, Christian Pulisic, Wesley Fofana and Mateo Kovacic. Raheem Sterling has a knee injury.
In defence, Kalidou Koulibaly is most likely to join the squad after Benoit Badiashile left the Champions League.
N’Golo Kante and Denis Zakaria are also on the verge of returning, but have yet to complete their recovery plans, while goalkeeper Edouard Mendy remains sidelined with a damaged finger. Graham Potter kept Ruben Loftus-Cheek in midfield at the expense of Mason Mount. .
All the main points below on how to watch Chelsea’s to Germany in some parts of the world.
UK: The setting will be broadcast across BT Sport’s broadcast and television platforms.
United States: Fans in the United States can watch the game on CBS (English), UniMas, and TUDN (Spanish). These same channels will be broadcast on fuboTV, which will be held as a loose test for new users. Paramount and ViX will also stream the matches to subscribers.
Australia: All UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and UEFA Europa Conference League matches with ad-free, on-demand streaming of all the action on Stan Sport.
Canada: All Champions League matches in Canada can be streamed on DAZN.