Dynamo Kyiv – Chelsea: Europa League the last 16 games, home leg – live! | Soccer

Willian sends on an outside corner. Alonso directs it to the first post and Giroud exploits the net on six meters. It's the sealed tie, surely!

5 min: Giroud asks Kadar to try his luck, then fights for a wide throw-in on the right. Bright game of the man in yellow.

4 min: Rüdiger foul gives Kiev the opportunity to put a free-kick on the left. It's played well, forcing Zappacosta to turn him around. Kiev puts an end to his efforts before Shepeliev sends another dangerous center from the left. Rüdiger is doing well. A little encouraging pressure there from the hosts.

1 minute: Chelsea starts, and in a few seconds, Williams center on the left. Kiev understood everything.

Here are the teams. It is five degrees in Kiev and the crowd is in great shape. The hosts are in white, Chelsea is wearing a yellow butter shirt and shorts with blue socks – the colors of Ukraine, as it should be.

Chelsea ranks sixth in the Premier League, three points from the arsenal with one game less. The remaining national matches include trips to Liverpool and Manchester United, fifth. So here's the question: do they have a better chance of reaching the Champions League next season in the Premier League or winning the Europa League? I say the last, simply because it probably involves winning fewer games (from this point).

"If we think we have already won, it's really very dangerous. So I told them to play to win. If we win the match, the qualification will be badured. The land is not in good condition. It's more of a problem for us, but for 22 players. "

Kiev: Boyko; Kedziora, Burda, Kadar, Mykolenko; Sydorchuk, Shepeliev; Tsygankov, Shaparenko, Sidcley; Garmash

Subs: Bushchan, Tché, Andriyevsky, Bueno, Shabanov, Smimiy, Albekov

Chelsea: Arrizabalega; Zappacosta, Rüdiger, Chistensen, Alonso; Kante, Kovacic, Loftus-Cheek; Hudson-Odoi, Giroud, Willian

Subs: Cabellero, Azpilicueta, David Luiz, Jorginho, Barkley, Pedro Hazard

Arbitrator: T Stieler (Ger)

Carefree? No Chelsea. They can participate in this match with a 3-0 lead since the first leg, but the Premier League team has a lot in mind. For starters, Maurizio Sarri called the pitch in Kyiv "a disaster … really dangerous" and fears that his players will be seriously injured. That's why he may have missed some regular starters today, especially with a tough game at Everton, but Chelsea is lagging behind in the top four. Gonzalo Higuain, however, is absent due to illness. By the way, Everton is perhaps also a concern for Kyiv: because they were the opponents the last time the Ukrainians reversed their deficit to go for the first leg. It was in 2015 and they had lost only the first match 2-1, but an inspiration to the hosts, all the same. Let's see what is it for today.