Legia Warsaw vs Chelsea: Lineups and latest updates from Conference League
Match kicks off at 5.45pm
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5:21PM
Here are the line-ups
Chelsea
The XI to face @LegiaWarszawa. 📋🔵 #CFC | #UECL pic.twitter.com/WlDEMSbg4t
— Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) April 10, 2025
Chelsea have made five changes to the side that drew 0-0 with Brentford at the weekend.
Cole Palmer returns to the side while Filip Jorgensen dons the gloves and Tyrique George, Josh Acheampong and Benoît Badisahile come into the defence. Nkunku starts up front as he did on Sunday before coming off at half-time for Jackson.
Legia Warsaw
For You, for the Club, for Legia. We're playing for the win 🔥 #ItsTime #UECL pic.twitter.com/GiC6ZevCjm
— Legia Warsaw (@LegiaWarsawEN) April 10, 2025
5:14PM
Legia's struggles
Legia Warsaw finished seventh during the league phase and reached the last eight by beating Norwegian side Molde in the last round. They are not, however, pulling up any trees in the Polish Ekstraklasa, where they lie fifth.
The match kicks off at 5.45pm and you can catch all the build up and team news right here.
5:12PM
Winning run
Not that Enzo Maresca is taking tonight's match lightly. Chelsea's head coach made a raft of changes last weekend, electing to rest Cole Palmer, Marc Cucurella, Levi Colwill, Pedro Neto and Nicolas Jackson for their goalless draw with Brentford.
Perhaps he wants to set a record in this competition by winning every match – a feat they are on course to do having won all eight so far and scoring 29 goals in the process.
Six of those goals have come from the competition's joint-top scorer Marc Guiu, but the Spaniard is out with a hamstring injury and so will most likely be replaced up top by Christopher Nkunku, who is just one goal behind Guiu with five Conference League goals. Also missing for the Blues are Romeo Lavia and Wesley Fofana so it will be interesting to see how Maresca lines his side up.
5:11PM
Countdown to kick-off
Welcome to this evening's live coverage of Chelsea's magical mystery tour of Europe as Enzo Maresca's side visit Legia Warsaw in the quarter-final first leg of the Uefa Conference League.
It is a far cry from Porto 2021 or even Munich 2012 but those higher aspirations are for another day. Right now they have the chance to complete their European set by winning the one trophy that has so far eluded them – in it's three-year existence...
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