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Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature5 min: Chelsea, as expected, are the ones wheeling the ball around.Share4 min: Rytting Kaneryd twists and turns out on the right before dinking a decent cross in … it’s headed out before Nüsken shoots wide from range.Share3 min: Walsh loses the ball in the middle as Clara Mateo drives down the right for Paris … Bright blocks the cross and also nabs a goalkick.Share1 min: Alyssa Thompson, electric out on the right alongside Ellie Carpenter last week against Twente, is operating on the left this time round.SharePeeeeeeeep!Chelsea are all blue, Paris don the whites. The hosts kick off, with Aggie Beever-Jones launching first.ShareEllen White, on punditry duty, predicts a 4-0 Chelsea victory. Sonia Bompastor wants her side to replicate their display against Spurs. Let’s see what they’ve got in the locker: the players emerge from the tunnel.ShareOn the subject of international retirements: Jess Fishlock’s illustrious Wales career will end this month.ShareMillie Bright remains at the heart of Chelsea’s defence but the England chapter is over.ShareUpdated at 19.25 BSTHaving rotated heavily for last week’s match against Twente, Sonia Bompastor has opted for less tinkering this time round: Hannah Hampton is back in net, with just two changes to the side that beat Tottenham 1-0 in the league. Ellie Carpenter is missing from the squad, while Niamh Charles drops to the bench. In come Sjoeke Nüsken and Sandy Baltimore.ShareThe teamsChelsea: Hampton, Nüsken, Björn, Bright, Baltimore, Kaptein, Walsh, Cuthbert, Rytting Kaneryd, Beever-Jones, ThompsonSubs: Peng, Buurman, Macário, Jean-François, Reiten, Kerr, Charles, Bronze, Hamano, Potter, SarwieParis FC: Chavas, Ould Hocine, Davis, Greboval, Bogaert, Picard, Korosec, Corboz, Garbino, Mateo, Le MoguédecSubs: Marques, Azzaro, Mendonça, Scott, N’Dongala, Jedlinska, Haheim, Sissoko, Liaigre, YerroShareUpdated at 19.19 BSTPreambleHello, hello, hello and welcome to another evening of Champions League action: Paris are in London.Chelsea, still waiting to lift this trophy, got their campaign off to an awkward start last week, relying on a Sandy Baltimore penalty to take a point at Twente. While the WSL champions – who remain unbeaten this season – dominated on the ball and whipped in cross after cross, their final touch was off. Maybe a kickabout at Stamford Bridge, under lights, is the required tonic.Paris FC, who came through qualifying to reach the league stage, gave up a 2-0 lead against OH Leuven to draw last week, and their brief relationship with Chelsea is not pretty: the English side won 4-0 and 4-1 when the two sides met in the 2023-24 group stage. Then again, Twente didn’t have history on their side either. Kick-off’s at 8pm BST.Share
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