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Champions League Group Stage Draw – Live

The draw for the Champions League group stage is scheduled to take place in Monaco in under two hours’ time,..

Champions League

27 Aug

Chelsea 1-1 Barcelona – Newspaper Reaction, Goal Videos, Good and Bad, Player Ratings

Match reports The Guardian, Kevin McCarra: “Despair in a football match cannot come more intolerably or improbably. Barcelona vaulted over..

Champions League

7 May

Barcelona 0-0 Chelsea – Newspaper Reaction, Match Report, Good and Bad, Player Ratings

Match reports The Guardian, Kevin McCarra: “The resilience of Chelsea was formidable and it has preserved their hopes of a..

Champions League

29 Apr

Chelsea 4-4 Liverpool (Chelsea win 7-5 on agg.) – Newspaper Reaction, Goal Videos, Good and Bad, Player Ratings

Match reports Daily Telegraph, Henry Winter: “This was epic stuff, one of the most memorable, fluctuating games in the history..

Best-of

15 Apr

Chelsea v. Liverpool – beware the skies (and Neil Kinnock)…

Stevie Wonder, despite being eminently qualified to become a Premiership referee, was probably more of a fan at heart. “Very..

Best-of

13 Apr

Liverpool 1-3 Chelsea – Newspaper Reaction, Goal Videos, Match Report, Good and Bad, Player Ratings

Match reports The Guardian, Kevin McCarra: “Liverpool’s disbelief must be very nearly as great as their despair. Nobody had anticipated..

Champions League

9 Apr

Champions League Quarter- and Semi-Final Draws

The draws for the Champions League quarter- and semi-finals are scheduled to take place in about 10 minutes. I will..

Champions League

20 Mar

Juventus 2-2 Chelsea – Newspaper Reaction, Goal Videos, Match Report, Good and Bad, Player Ratings

Match reports The Guardian, Dominic Fifield: "Chelsea have their quarter-final and scars aplenty to show for this skirmish with the..

Champions League

10 Mar

Chelsea 1-0 Juventus – Newspaper Reaction, Goal Video, Good and Bad, Player Ratings

Match reports The Guardian, Kevin McCarra: "A 1–0 win will make Stamford Bridge misty-eyed with reminiscences of the hardiness shown..

Champions League

26 Feb

Chelsea 2-1 CFR Cluj – Newspaper Reaction, Goal Videos, Match Report, Player Ratings

Match reports The Guardian, Kevin McCarra: "The sense of jeopardy was a figment of the imagination, but Chelsea were not..

Champions League

10 Dec

Bordeaux 1-1 Chelsea – Newspaper Reaction, Goal Videos, Good and Bad, Player Ratings

Match reports The Guardian, David Hytner: "Chelsea had this game and their qualification for the knock-out phase in the palm..

Champions League

27 Nov

Roma 3-1 Chelsea – Newspaper Reaction, Goal Videos, Good and Bad, Player Ratings

Match reports The Independent, Jason Burt: "Two defeats in four games? It is not a crisis at Chelsea but it..

Champions League

4 Nov

Chelsea 1-0 Roma – Newspaper Reaction, Goal Video, Good and Bad, Player Ratings

Match reports The Guardian, Kevin McCarra: "Chelsea made progress with a backward step. No home supporter could have complained about..

Champions League

23 Oct

CFR Cluj 0-0 Chelsea – Newspaper Reaction, Goal Videos, Good, Bad and Ugly, Player Ratings

Match reports The Guardian, Louise Taylor: "It is several centuries since visitors to Transylvania routinely ran the risk of a..

Champions League

1 Oct

Chelsea 4-0 Bordeaux – Newspaper Reaction, Goal Videos, Good and Bad, Player Ratings

Match reports The Times, Martin Samuel: "A convincing first Champions League victory for Luiz Felipe Scolari was only the half..

Champions League

17 Sep

Champions League draw, Wright-Phillips returns to Manchester City

The draw for the group stages of this season’s Champions League has taken place in Monaco. Chelsea will be in..

Champions League

28 Aug

Champions League Final: Manchester United 1-1 Chelsea (aet; Manchester United win 6-5 on penalties)

Match reports The Guardian, Kevin McCarra: “Even predictability can carry its trace of surprise. The Champions League final did go..

Best-of

22 May

Photos: From Russia With Love

Mark, our intrepid reporter in the field, is photoblogging his journey to the Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow. 6:54 a.m. Check-in, Stansted..

Champions League

21 May

Chelsea 3 – 2 Liverpool (aet, agg 4 – 3)

Match reports The Guardian, Kevin McCarra: “The road to the final against Manchester United in Moscow on May 21 was..

Champions League

1 May

Liverpool 1 – 1 Chelsea

Match reports The Guardian, Kevin McCarra: “The roars of the Anfield crowd at the close were solely of defiance. Lesser..

Champions League

22 Apr

Chelsea 2 – 0 Fenerbahce (agg 3 – 2)

Match reports Daily Telegraph, John Ley: “Another year, another semi-final. For the fourth time in five seasons, Chelsea reached the..

Champions League

9 Apr

Fenerbahce 2 – 1 Chelsea

Match reports The Guardian, David Hytner: “Having forged ahead through an own-goal from Deivid, [Chelsea] had a fistful of first-half..

Champions League

2 Apr

Chelsea 3 – 0 Olympiakos (agg 3 – 0)

Match reports The Guardian, Stuart James: “It is now 60 matches unbeaten in all competitions for Chelsea at Stamford Bridge,..

Champions League

5 Mar

Olympiakos 0 – 0 Chelsea

Match reports The Times, Matt Hughes: “Grant was employed to echo Ruud Gullit by introducing sexy football, but this performance..

Champions League

19 Feb

Chelsea 0 – 0 Valencia

Match reports Daily Telegraph, John Ley: “Chelsea achieved another milestone last night when they extended their unbeaten Stamford Bridge record..

Champions League

12 Dec

Rosenborg 0 – 4 Chelsea

Match reports The Guardian, Dominic Fifield: “The Champions League was supposed to have done away with mismatches like this. Chelsea..

Champions League

29 Nov

Schalke 04 0 – 0 Chelsea

Match reports The Times, Matt Hughes: “Avram Grant’s mission impossible is to make Chelsea the most attractive team in the..

Champions League

7 Nov

Chelsea 2 – 0 Schalke 04

Match reports The Times, Matt Hughes: “Given that his boss is the man who has everything, it is perhaps just..

Champions League

25 Oct

Valencia 1 – 2 Chelsea

Match reports The Guardian, Kevin McCarra: “Mourning no longer intruded and Chelsea, just as they did on their previous visit..

Champions League

4 Oct

Chelsea 1 – 1 Rosenborg

Match reports The Guardian, Dominic Fifield: “Chelsea must feel further away than ever from a first European Cup. Their owner,..

Champions League

18 Sep

Champions League draw: Group B – Valencia, Schalke 04, Rosenborg

The draw for this season’s Champions League group stages has taken place in Monte Carlo. Chelsea have been drawn in..

Champions League

30 Aug

Champions League review: Liverpool 1 – 0 Chelsea (Agg: 1-1, Liverpool win 4-1 on pens)

Match reports The Guardian, Kevin McCarra: “These sides grappled with one another so fiercely that it was as if neither..

Champions League

2 May