Chelsea vs Valencia preview

Chelsea vs Valencia
Champions League Group H
8:00pm Tuesday 17th September

Stamford Bridge

Team information, key stats and predictions before Chelsea vs Valencia since the Champions League group stages start.
Regardless of creating a return Antonio Rudiger won’t attribute because of a problem with Emerson also out of action.
N’Golo Kante, Callum Hudson-Odoi, Reece James come back in training following their various traumas but aren’t yet fit fit.
Valencia have a full squad available for your visit to London, however are without harm absentees Carlos Soler and Cristiano Piccini.
Chelsea and Valencia have met six times previously in Western competition, with the Spanish team not winning any of these games (D3 L3).
The only club that Chelsea have confronted as often in European competition without dropping because they have against Valencia (six games: W3 D3) is German club FC Schalke 04 (six matches: W4 D2).
Chelsea didn’t lose a match in rivalry drawing on three of the 15 matches at the UEFA Europa League to the best way to qualifying for its 2019-20 UEFA Champions League and winning the final and winning 12.
Chelsea’s 12 wins in the 2018-19 UEFA Europa League has just been bettered after in a significant UEFA European contest (excluding qualifiers) inside one 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 since 2012-13 (three in a row), that was also the last time that they made it into the knockout stages of the contest, before being pumped from Paris Saint-Germain in the previous 16.
Frank Lampard takes charge of a UEFA Champions League match for the first time in his managerial career. As a Chelsea player, he is one of only 22 players and made 102 appearances to have played 100+ games at the contest with exactly the club.
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