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Hello and welcome to LIVE text commentary of the second leg of the Champions League last-16 clash between Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain at Stamford Bridge. The French champions have the edge, coming into this one after a 2-1 win in Paris on February 16. It all gets underway at 19.45pm GMT. Team news next...

Champions League / Last 16
Stamford Bridge / 09.03.2016
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Ben Snowball

Updated 09/03/2016 at 21:35 GMT


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First sign of PSG. Lucas dances beyond three challenges and slips a pass towards Di Maria on the overlap on the right. The Argentine powers into the area and clips a shot past Courtois but it's hooked off the line by Ivanovic.
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STAT: Chelsea have won all three of their Champions League home games this season (8 goals for, 1 against).
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SAVE! PSG far too casual at the back. The visitors attempt to play their way out from the right byline. A sloppy pass is pounced upon and fed into Costa who turns on the edge of the area and forces a smart stop out of Trapp.
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PSG leading 2-1 from the first leg. That remains Guus Hiddink's only defeat since being appointed interim manager in December.
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KICK OFF! Chelsea get this second leg underway.
19.40
HEAD-TO-HEAD: The record between Chelsea and PSG is perfectly balanced with two wins each and three draws, all in the Champions League.
19.35
CONTRASTING STATS: Diego Costa has only scored one goal in his last 15 Champions League games (v Maccabi Tel Aviv last September).
19.30
STAT: 57% of Chelsea’s goals have been scored from set-pieces (8 out of 14), the highest ratio among the 16 teams left in this season’s competition.
19.20
FAMILIAR FEELING: Chelsea are in the knockout stages of the Champions League for the 12th time in the last 13 seasons. They’ve reached the quarter finals on eight of these occasions. Meanwhile PSG have reached the knockout stages of the Champions League for the fourth consecutive season, their best ever run. They’ve been eliminated in the quarter finals in the last three campaigns.
19.15
Some more details regarding PSG's team selection. Marco Verratti has not recovered from his groin injury so Adrien Rabiot comes in. Zlatan Ibrahimović will lead the line with Ángel Di María and Lucas supporting from the wings.
19.10
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Laurent Blanc: "(Costa) loves contact, duelling, provocation, but that's part of the game. I say to my defenders not to respond, to be strong, stay cool. We must learn to control ourselves. If one is in control we can show on the pitch that we are capable of doing great things."
19.05
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Guus Hiddink: "It is always good to have an away goal in a European game. That doesn’t make it easy of course but it is a game between two big teams in European football. It will be a clash between two adventurous sides that hopefully Europe will enjoy."
19.00
FIRST-LEG RECAP: Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Edinson Cavani secured a 2-1 victory for the French giants in the first match of this tie in Paris, but a rare effort from John Obi Mikel means Guus Hiddink's men will be confident they can keep their season well and truly alive by completing the comeback on home turf tonight.
18.55
Big night for Chelsea's Kenedy. The Brazilian starts for only the fourth time.
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CONFIRMED TEAMS - CHELSEA: Courtois; Azpilicueta, Cahill, Ivanovic, Kenedy; Mikel, Fabregas; Pedro, Willian, Hazard; Diego Costa... Subs: Begovic, Baba Rahman, Matic, Loftus-Cheek, Oscar, Traore, Remy. /// PSG: Trapp, Marquinhos, Thiago Silva, David Luiz, Maxwell, Thiago Motta, Rabiot, Matuidi, Di Maria, Moura, Ibrahimovic... Subs: Sirigu, Stambouli, Cavani, Kurzawa, Van der Wiel, Pastore, Augustin.