Group H scenario - who needs what to qualify?

Chelsea will go through if we beat Lille, or if we draw and Valencia lose to Ajax.

Ajax will go through if they draw, or if Chelsea fail to beat Lille.

Valencia will go through if they beat Ajax, or as long as they finish at least level on points with Chelsea due to their superior head-to-head record.

Chelsea vs Lille head to head record

Prior to our meeting on matchday two in September, Chelsea and Lille had never met before in European competition. Our two previous meetings were both friendlies in 1950. Lille won the first on their own ground 3-1 in May and the Blues won 3-0 six months later in front of just under 10,000 at the Bridge.

Highlights of our only competitive meeting with Lille so far can be watched below...

Matchday two line-ups

LILLE 1 CHELSEA 2Champions League group H, Stade Pierre Mauroy, 02.10.19, 8pm

Lille (4-2-3-1) Maignan; Celik, Fonte (c), Gabriel, Mandava; Andre (Sanches 68), Soumare; Araujo (Xeka 75), Ikone (Yazici 61), Bamba; Osimhen.Unused subs Cesar, Soumaoro, Remy, BradaricHead Coach Christophe GaltierBooked Ikone 44Scorer Osimhen 33

Chelsea (3-4-2-1) Arrizabalaga; Azpilicueta (c), Zouma, Tomori; James (Hudson-Odoi 66), Kante, Jorginho, Alonso; Willian (Pedro 84), Mount (Kovacic 87); AbrahamUnused subs Caballero, Christensen, Giroud, Batshuayi.Injured Loftus-Cheek, Emerson, RudigerHead coach Frank LampardBooked James 35Scorers Abraham 22, Willian 77

Referee Aleksei Kulbakov (Belarus)Attendance 48,523

Chelsea’s biggest home win in the Champions League:

21/10/2014 Chelsea 6-0 Maribor Group stage12/09/2017 Chelsea 6-0 Qarabag Group stage

Lille’s biggest away win in Europe:

01/10/2009 Slavia Prague 1-5 Lille Europa League group stage

Chelsea's recent European form

Chelsea have lost just one of our last 20 games in Europe (14 wins, five draws) in a run that includes winning the Europa League last season; our only defeat was on matchday one of this Champions League campaign at home to Valencia.

Chelsea have only lost twice in our last 15 Champions League group stage games (eight wins, five draws), with one of those defeats coming against Valencia this season.

Lille are the fifth different French opponent that Chelsea have faced in European competition, all in the Champions League (six wins, five draws, six defeats). The other four were Marseille, Monaco, PSG and Bordeaux.

We have only lost one of our eight previous home games against French sides, although that was our most recent game, a 1-2 loss to PSG in March 2016.

Chelsea are winless in our last five Champions League games at Stamford Bridge (four draws, one defeat); our longest run without a win in the competition on home soil.

Chelsea have had eight different goalscorers in the Champions League this season – excluding own goals, no team have had more than the Blues coming into this final group stage matchday - Jorginho 2 (2 pens), Abraham 1, Azpilicueta 1, Batshuayi 1, James 1, Kovacic 1, Pulisic 1, Willian 1

Should Willian score he will become our fourth top scorer in the Champions League:Didier Drogba 36Frank Lampard 23Nicolas Anelka 12John Terry 10Fernando Torres 10Willian 10

Loic Remy currently plays for Lille and old boys Eden Hazard, Joe Cole and Salomon Kalou have all played at the club before or after their Chelsea careers.

Read: Joe Cole reflects on his time at Lille and the strengths of the French top flight

If we qualify for the round of 16, Frank Lampard will be the first English manager to progress a team from Champions League group stage – having taken charge of all six group games – since Harry Redknapp with Tottenham in 2010/11.

Lille statistics

Last seasonLigue 1: SecondCoupe de France: Round of 16Coupe de la Ligue: Third roundTop scorer all competitions: Nicolas Pepe 23

This is Lille’s sixth appearance in the Champions League group stage and their first since 2012/13. Only one of those previous five campaigns has extended into the knockout rounds, in 2006/07. Seven years ago they finished bottom of a section including Bayern Munich, Valencia and BATE Borisov.

Before this season, Lille’s six Champions League matches against English opposition all came against Manchester United, with the French side winning one, drawing two and losing three. In all competitions including matchday two, Lille have failed to score in five of their last seven matches against English teams.

Lille’s only win in six away games at English sides across all European competitions came at Aston Villa in the Intertoto Cup in August 2002 (2-0) – they have failed to score in each of their other five such matches in England (one draw, four defeats).

Lille’s most recent European appearance came in 2016/17 and lasted one tie, Gabala of Azerbaijan running out 2-1 aggregate winners in the Europa League third qualifying round.

Lille have lost five of their last six Champions League fixtures, drawing the other against Valencia in October.

Lille have won three of their 18 Champions League away games, losing four of their last five on the road.

Lille have kept one clean sheet in their last 11 matches in the Champions League, winning 2-0 against BATE Borisov in November 2012.

After beating Brest 1-0 on Friday, Lille have 28 points from their 17 Ligue 1 fixtures and currently stand third, 11 points behind leaders PSG.

Lille picked up their first away victory in all competitions at the 14th attempt (five draws, eight defeats) thanks to a 1-0 win at Lyon on 3 December, Jonathan Ikone scoring the only goal of the game.

Victor Osimhen has netted two of Lille’s three goals in the Champions League this season, although both games he has scored in have ended in defeat (1-2 v Chelsea and 1-4 v Valencia).

Head coach Christophe Galtier had never managed a side against Chelsea until matchday two.

GROUP H RESULTS

Ajax (a) L 0-3Chelsea (h) L 1-2Valencia (h) D 1-1Valencia (a) L 1-4Ajax (h) L 0-2

Scorers: (3) Osimhen 2, Ikone 1

LILLE’S MATCHDAY FIVE LINE UP

Wednesday 27 NovemberLille 0 Ajax 2Team 4-2-3-1: Maignan; Celik, Djalo, Gabriel, Mandava; Andre (c) (Sanches 77), Soumare; Yazici (Remy 82), Ikone, Bamba (Araujo 72); Osimhen.Booked Mandava 29, Osimhen 37Attendance: 48,612

Discipline

Cheikh Niasse is suspended following a red card in the UEFA Youth League.

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

Booking listChelsea: Azpilicueta 2, Jorginho 2, Arrizabalaga 1, Giroud 1, James 1, Kante 1, Tomori 1, Zouma 1

Lille: Gabriel 2, Andre 1, Araujo 1, Bradaric 1, Celik 1, Djalo 1, Fonte 1, Ikone 1, Osimhen 1, Reinildo 1, Sanches 1

Chelsea vs Lille referee and VAR

Referee: Tasos Sidiropoulos from Greece. VAR: Bastian Dankert from Germany.

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