Big Match Feature: Chelsea v PSG

Form guide (all competitions)

Chelsea: WWDDWW

Paris: DDWDWW

Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain go head to head for a second successive season in the Uefa Champions League knockout rounds, with the London club hoping to repeat their triumph of 10 months ago.

The teams are level at 1-1 after the first game on 17 February, Branislav Ivanovic giving Chelsea a first-half lead and Edinson Cavani replying after the break.

Paris players will wear black armbands for the game. Eight French nationals, including three sportsmen and women, died in a helicopter crash in Argentina on Monday.

Previous meetings

In the 2013/14 quarterfinals Paris won the home leg 3-1, David Luiz, then with Chelsea, scoring an own goal. Eden Hazard struck from the spot and in the end that proved decisive as Chelsea prevailed 2-0 at Stamford Bridge to advance on away goals.

The full line-ups at Stamford Bridge on 8 April 2014 were:

Chelsea: Cech, Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry, Azpilicueta, David Luiz, Lampard (Ba 66), Willian, Oscar (Torres 81), Hazard (Schürrle 18), Eto'o.

Paris: Sirigu, Jallet, Alex, Thiago Silva, Maxwell, Verratti (Cabaye 55), Thiago Motta, Matuidi, Lucas (Marquinhos 85), Cavani, Lavezzi (Pastore 73).

The sides drew 0-0 in London in the 2004/05 group stage after Chelsea had won 3-0 in Paris. The latter fixture was José Mourinho's first Uefa Champions League game in charge of the west Londoners, just months after he lifted the trophy with FC Porto.

The line-ups at Stamford Bridge on 24 November 2004 were:

Chelsea: Cudicini, Johnson, Gallas, Carvalho, Bridge, Parker, Smertin, J Cole, Lampard (Gudjohnsen 62), Robben (Duff 46), Kežman (Drogba 62).

Paris: Letizi, Mendy, Cana, Armand, M'Bami, Pierre-Fanfan, Rothen, Cissé (Boškovic 83), Pauleta (Pancrate 90), Yepes, Reinaldo (Coridon 77).

Chelsea have kept five clean sheets in six home matches against French teams. The sole exception was a 2-2 draw with AS Monaco FC in the 2003/04 Uefa Champions League semifinal second leg, prompting a 5-3 aggregate loss.

The Blues beat an FC Girondins de Bordeaux outfit coached by Laurent Blanc 4-0 at home on matchday one of the 2008/09 competition before a 1-1 draw in France.

Match background

Chelsea

Semifinalists last season, Chelsea are looking to reach the last eight for the fourth time in five years and the seventh time in the last nine campaigns. Last year they ousted Galatasaray AS 3-1 on aggregate.

The Blues won their group for the ninth time in their last 12 campaigns; they finished runners-up in two other years and were eliminated in the group stage only once, as holders in 2012/13.

At home this term, they started with a 1-1 draw against FC Schalke 04 and then beat NK Maribor (6-0) and Sporting Clube de Portugal (3-1).

In Uefa competition Chelsea have lost the tie three times on the eight occasions they have drawn their first leg away from home, most recently against Club Atlético de Madrid in last season's semifinals (0-0 away, 1-3 home). Those five aggregate victories came after a 1-1 away draw, most recently against Galatasaray in the 2013/14 round of 16 when they prevailed 2-0 at home.

Chelsea's shoot-out record in Uefa competition is W1 L3:

4-5 v FC Bayern München, 2013 Uefa Super Cup

4-3 v FC Bayern München, 2011/12 Uefa Champions League final

5-6 v Manchester United FC, 2007/08 Uefa Champions League final

1-4 v Liverpool FC, 2006/07 Uefa Champions League semifinal

Paris

Paris are targeting a third successive appearance in the quarterfinals. Twelve months ago at this stage a 4-0 victory at Bayer 04 Leverkusen set up a 6-1 aggregate triumph.

Away from home this season, Paris drew with AFC Ajax (1-1), edged Apoel FC (1-0) and succumbed to their first defeat on matchday six, crashing 3-1 at FC Barcelona.

Paris have won seven of their last 15 Uefa Champions League away games, losing four.

The Parisians have drawn the home first leg 11 times in Uefa competition and won five of those ties on aggregate. They lost the most recent, against Barcelona in the 2012/13 quarterfinals (2-2 home,1-1 away).

Paris's European shoot-out record is W0 L1:

3-4 v Rangers FC, 2001/02 Uefa Cup third round

Match Facts

Chelsea

Ivanovic, Cesc Fàbregas and Filipe Luís are a booking away from a ban.

Ivanovic put Chelsea ahead on 21 February at home to Burnley FC, who equalised to earn a point after Nemanja Matic was sent off.

Matic was subsequently banned for three matches, reduced to two on appeal, and missed the 2-0 English League Cup final victory against Tottenham Hotspur FC on 1 March and the 1-0 win at West Ham United FC three days later decided by Hazard's header.

A strike from John Terry and a Kyle Walker own goal, the full-back deflecting in Diego Costa's shot, settled the League Cup final at Wembley.

The triumph was Mourinho's third in the competition and his first silverware since returning to the club in summer 2013. Mourinho won five major trophies during his initial spell at Stamford Bridge between 2004 and 2007.

The Blues are eight matches unbeaten in all competitions, since losing 4-2 at home to Bradford City AFC in the FA Cup fourth round on 24 January.

John Obi Mikel has not played since 7 February because of a knee injury.

Paris

Marco Verratti and Gregory van der Wiel will incur a suspension with their next booking.

Paris were 4-1 winners at home to RC Lens on Saturday. The French champions followed up their first-leg draw with a 3-1 home victory against Toulouse FC in which Adrien Rabiot scored twice.

Having drawn 0-0 with AS Monaco FC in the league on 1 March, Paris defeated the same team 2-0 at Parc des Princes in the French Cup quarterfinals three days later, Luiz and Cavani the goalscorers.

Ibrahimovic was suspended for the matches against Monaco.

Blanc's men are 14 games unbeaten in all competitions, since going down 4-2 at SC Bastia on 10 January.

Serge Aurier (14 February, hamstring), Lucas (14 February, groin) and Yohan Cabaye (14 February, thigh) are sidelined; Thiago Motta (out since 11 February, calf) returned against Lens.

José Mourinho, Chelsea manager

We will try to win. When you are losing 3-1 from the first leg you are on the limit of risk. If you concede one goal you are in big trouble. You know you have to score a minimum of three. Tomorrow is different. The result has a complete balance, but we are trying to win.

[Our experience] helps us to sleep well tonight. You feel comfortable to play if it's something you do a lot of times. It's one more game, in spite of being a knockout game and the second leg, so you're calm. But during the game the players play. You are speaking about teams with very good players, some of them very comfortable playing at this level. I think it's more about them.

Champions League, in the knockouts, you need a bit of luck in the details in specific moments. To score a goal in the last minute, even if you do a lot to try to be lucky, it's a lucky detail. Last season we had that. If somebody tomorrow has to be a little bit magic, it's the crowd. We played a semifinal here against Liverpool a few weeks ago and it was fantastic. The crowd was extra. So, the same way in Paris we had a fantastic stadium supporting the home team – hopefully tomorrow we can have that in our favour.

Laurent Blanc, Paris coach

[Victory] would change our perception in France, but also across Europe and maybe with you guys, the press. But we still need to do that. It's easy to talk about, but harder to go out and do it. We're halfway through a two-legged tie. Chelsea have a slight advantage with the away goal, so our aim is to do what Chelsea did in Paris and get through. We'll prepare well. We know what we will be going to do. Chelsea have to work out a balance between attacking and defending. That's their problem. But we know we have to score at least one goal to qualify.

We just prepare normally. Maybe you go into greater detail than for other games, but these are opponents we know better than last year. Nothing will change in terms of the way we train. But there is plenty that is said behind closed doors. To progress, you need experience. Paris have more experience [than last year] but we're still off what Chelsea have. They took a while to get where they are – and invested heavily. It takes time to become one of the top five or six sides in Europe. That is the process Paris have embarked upon.

We don't have a choice. The first-leg result is what it is. As things stand, once this match starts, we're going out because Chelsea have the away goal. We have to come out and look to qualify. There were some encouraging signs in the first leg. We know we played better than them in that first leg. I have been frank about that. But we know Chelsea can play better tomorrow.

We have to attack and score, regardless of whether Chelsea score, and to be clever and try to play our game. One of Chelsea's main weapons is that they are good on the counterattack, so we can't go gung-ho. We have to be solid and take our chances. I hope we do better than Chelsea did in the first leg, where Chelsea created only one chance and scored from that.

Chelsea start with a slight advantage and we have to take some risks but not too many. We've only had the first act of this tie. Now we need to stand up and be counted, but also stay in the game. We need to stay solid as well as attack and create chances.

Possible line-ups

Chelsea: Courtois; Ivanovic, Terry, Cahill, Azpilicueta; Ramires, Matic, Willian, Fàbregas, Hazard; Costa.

Out: Mikel (knee)

Paris: Sirigu; Maxwell, Thiago Silva, Marquinhos, Van der Wiel; David Luiz, Thiago Motta, Verratti, Matuidi; Cavani, Ibrahimovic.

Out: Aurier (thigh), Lucas (groin)