FC Krasnodar vs Chelsea UEFA Champions League Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
This will be first ever competitive meeting between FK Krasnodar and Chelsea. The Russian side are unbeaten in their previous two games against English teams in all competitions (W1 D1), with both matches coming against Everton in the 2014-15 UEFA Europa League.
Chelsea have won five of their six European encounters with Russian opponents (L1), winning all four UEFA Champions League outings.
FK Krasnodar will compete in their first ever home match in the UEFA Champions League - none of the previous six Russian sides won their first home game in the competition (D4 L2).
Chelsea have lost just one of their last 11 away games in European competition (W7 D3), although lost their last away game versus Bayem Munich (1 -4).
FK Krasnodar have won their last three home games in all European competition, having been winless in their previous five (D2 L3). The last eight teams to face an English side in their first ever UEFA Champions League home match have all lost, most recently Hoffenheim against Manchester City in 201 8-19.
The last side to avoid defeat were CFR Cluj vs Chelsea in October 2008, while the last to win were VfB Stuttgart vs Man Utd in October 2003.
Chelsea mustered just six attempts on goal in their opening UEFA Champions League match against Sevilla this season, their fewest in a match in the competition since February 2015 vs P86 (2). Chelsea drew 0-0 with Seviila on MD1 of this UEFA Champions League campaign — only in their debut season in the competition in 1999-00 have they failed to win either of their first two group stage games in a single campaign.
Chelsea's Kai Havertz has been involved in six goals in his last six games in European competition (4 goals, 2 assists), though he's failed to register a single goal involvement in his nine UEFA Champions League appearances so far.
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All seven of Chelsea forward Timo Wemer’s UEFA Champions League goals have come away from home - he's the top scorer in the competition to have scored 100% of their goals on the road.
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