Chelsea vs Lille head to head

Lille are one of six different French opponents that Chelsea have faced in European competition, all in the Champions League. The others are Marseille, Monaco, PSG, Bordeaux and Rennes.

Chelsea stats

When winning the first leg of a Champions League knockout tie, Chelsea have gone on to progress nine times out of 11.The last team to eliminate Chelsea after we had won the first leg at Stamford Bridge were Liverpool on penalties in the 2006/07 Champions League semi-finals.

Since the start of the 2020/21 season, Chelsea have kept more clean sheets in the Champions League than any other side (14).

Chelsea have lost two of our last 20 away European games (13 wins, five draws).Excluding penalty shoot-outs, Thomas Tuchel’s side have only been defeated twice in 37 games in all competitions, winning 25 of them.

Hakim Ziyech has been directly involved in five goals in eight starts for Chelsea in the Champions League (three goals, two assists).Our 11-10 penalty shoot-out defeat to Liverpool in the Carabao Cup final was our first this season having won the first three against Villarreal in the Super Cup and Aston Villa and Southampton in the Carabao Cup.

Lille stats

This will be Lille’s 10th Champions League match against a side from England, and fourth with Chelsea. Their other six games all came against Manchester United.Lille’s last victory against an English side was in the Europa League against Liverpool in 2010. Eden Hazard scored the only goal for the home side.They have lost their past four games against Premier League sides and would need their biggest home win against English opponents to stay in the competition.

This season’s Champions League results

Wolfsburg (h) D 0-0Salzburg (a) L 1-2Sevilla (h) D 0-0Sevilla (a) W 2-1Salzburg (h) W 1-0Wolfsburg (a) W 3-1Chelsea (a) L 0-2

Scorers David 3 (1 pen), Yilmaz 2, Gomes 1, Ikone 1

Lille beat Salzburg in their last home Champions League match in November. It was their first win on home soil in the competition in 11 games.Lille have never lost an away first leg in European competition by two goals and come back to win the tie.Lille have had fared well domestically since our first leg meeting three weeks ago, winning two and drawing one of their three games without conceding and rising to sixth.Lille’s squad contains five players who have previously played in England - Jose Fonte (Crystal Palace, Southampton and West Ham), Jeremy Pied (Southampton), Renato Sanches (Swansea), Angel Gomes (Man Utd) and Hatem Ben Arfa (Newcastle).

Lille have lost their last three penalty shoot-outs. They have never featured in one in UEFA competition.

First leg line-ups

Lille’s major January signings

Hatem Ben Arfa -  free agentEdon Zhegrova - Basel

Discipline

There are no suspensions.

In the Champions League, three yellow cards will result in a one-match-suspension in the competition.

Booking list

Chelsea: Loftus-Cheek 2, Alonso 1, Azpilicueta 1, Hudson-Odoi 1, Rudiger 1, Thiago Silva 1, Ziyech 1

Lille: Andre 3, Bamba 3, Xeka 3, Fonte 2, Yilmaz 2, Ben Arfa 1, Botman 1, Celik 1, Djalo 1, Grbic 1

Referee and VAR