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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2018/19 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Eden Arena - Prague Thursday 11 April 2019 21.00CET (21.00 local time) SK Slavia Praha Quarter-finals, First leg Chelsea FC Last updated 09/04/2019 13:01CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Team facts 6 Squad list 8 Fixtures and results 10 Match-by-match lineups 14 Match officials 17 Legend 18 1 SK Slavia Praha - Chelsea FC Thursday 11 April 2019 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Eden Arena, Prague Previous meetings Head to Head No UEFA competition matches have been played between these two teams SK Slavia Praha - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 06/11/2008 GS SK Slavia Praha - Aston Villa FC 0-1 Prague Sidwell 26 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Tottenham Hotspur FC - SK 1-1 21/02/2008 R3 London O'Hara 7; Krajčík 50 Slavia Praha agg: 3-2 SK Slavia Praha - Tottenham Střihavka 69; 14/02/2008 R3 1-2 Prague Hotspur FC Berbatov 4, Keane 30 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 07/11/2007 GS SK Slavia Praha - Arsenal FC 0-0 Prague Fàbregas 5, 58, Hubáček 24 (og), 23/10/2007 GS Arsenal FC - SK Slavia Praha 7-0 London Walcott 41, 55, Hleb 51, Bendtner 89 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Tottenham Hotspur FC - SK 1-0 28/09/2006 R1 London Keane 79 Slavia Praha agg: 2-0 SK Slavia Praha - Tottenham 14/09/2006 R1 0-1 Prague Jenas 37 Hotspur FC UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 2-1 Ulich 51, 78 (P); 23/03/2000 QF SK Slavia Praha - Leeds United Prague agg: 2-4 Kewell 45+2 Wilcox 39, Kewell 54, 16/03/2000 QF Leeds United - SK Slavia Praha 3-0 Leeds Bowyer 59 Chelsea FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-1 E. Hazard 90+2; 21/02/2013 R32 Chelsea FC - AC Sparta Praha London agg: 2-1 Lafata 17 14/02/2013 R32 AC Sparta Praha - Chelsea FC 0-1 Prague Oscar 82 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 2 SK Slavia Praha - Chelsea FC Thursday 11 April 2019 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Eden Arena, Prague UEFA Champions League 26/11/2003 GS1 Chelsea FC - AC Sparta Praha 0-0 London 16/09/2003 GS1 AC Sparta Praha - Chelsea FC 0-1 Prague Gallas 85 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-0 29/09/1994 R1 FK Viktoria Žižkov - Chelsea FC Prague agg: 2-4 Furlong 3, Sinclair 5, 15/09/1994 R1 Chelsea FC - FK Viktoria Žižkov 4-2 London Rocastle 54, Wise 69; Majoros 36, 42 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA SK Slavia Praha 5 1 1 3 4 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 9 1 2 6 4 17 Chelsea FC 3 1 2 0 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 3 3 0 7 3 3 SK Slavia Praha - Chelsea FC Thursday 11 April 2019 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Eden Arena, Prague Match background A thrilling round of 16 win against Sevilla has put Slavia Praha into the quarter-finals of the UEFA Europa League for the first time. Lying in wait are 2013 winners Chelsea, who overwhelmed Dynamo Kyiv last time out and have yet to lose in Europe this season. • Slavia made it through the UEFA Europa League group stage for the first time, finishing runners-up to Zenit in Group C with ten points. They knocked Genk out of the round of 32 with a 4-1 second-leg win in Belgium following a 0-0 draw in Prague, then came out on top of a dramatic, goal-laden round of 16 tie with Sevilla, a late extra-time strike bringing a 4-3 win in Prague after they had drawn the first game 2-2 in southern Spain. • Chelsea have won nine of their ten matches in this UEFA Europa League campaign, drawing the other. They dominated Group L in the autumn before coasting to a 5-1 aggregate victory over Malmö in the round of 32 and then beating Dynamo Kyiv 8-0 over the two legs in the round of 16, Olivier Giroud's hat-trick helping them to a 5-0 victory in the Ukrainian capital after they had won the first leg 3-0 in west London. Previous meetings • The clubs have never met in UEFA competition. • Slavia have won just one of their nine previous UEFA fixtures against English opposition and even that victory – 2-1 at home to Leeds in the 1999/2000 UEFA Cup quarter-finals – proved insufficient as they had lost the first leg 3-0. Slavia have also lost their two other two-legged ties against English clubs, both in the UEFA Cup against Tottenham Hotspur, with first-leg defeats in Prague. Their heaviest European defeat was against English opposition – 0-7 away to Arsenal in the 2007/08 UEFA Champions League group stage. • Chelsea are unbeaten in six matches against Czech clubs and have yet to concede on three visits to Prague, winning each of their last two matches in the Czech capital 1-0 against Sparta Praha – in the 2003/04 UEFA Champions League group stage and the 2012/13 UEFA Europa League round of 32. The latter was the first step on their run to overall victory, Eden Hazard scoring a stunning added-time equaliser in the return leg at Stamford Bridge to take the London club through. Form guide Slavia • As runners-up to Viktoria Plzeň in the 2017/18 Czech Liga, Slavia earned a spot in the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round, where defeat by Dynamo Kyiv (1-1 home, 0-2 away) sent them into the UEFA Europa League group stage. They won the Czech Cup last term, defeating Jablonec 3-1 in the final. • Slavia's two previous UEFA Europa League group stage campaigns, in 2009/10 and 2017/18, both ended unsuccessfully, but they made it third time lucky this term, scoring just four goals in their six games but finishing above København and Bordeaux. • UEFA Cup semi-finalists in 1995/96, Slavia's most recent appearance in the quarter-finals of a European competition was that 1999/2000 UEFA Cup tie against Leeds. • The Prague club had not conceded at home in any of their first four UEFA Europa League fixtures this term – they beat Bordeaux (1-0) and Zenit (2-0) and drew 0-0 against København and Genk – before Sevilla struck three times in the round of 16. Slavia are undefeated in their last six European home fixtures (W3 D3). Chelsea • Chelsea finished fifth in defence of their Premier League title last season, and beat Manchester United 1-0 in the FA Cup final to book a first ever place in the UEFA Europa League group stage. • The London side eased through to the UEFA Europa League knockout phase, doing the double over PAOK (1-0 away, 4-0 home) and BATE Borisov (3-1 home, 1-0 away) before Vidi, who had lost 1-0 at Stamford Bridge, denied them a clean sweep with a 2-2 draw in Budapest on matchday six. In the round of 32 they defeated Malmö away (2-1) and at home (3-0) before sweeping aside Dynamo Kyiv with the third highest winning margin of any UEFA Europa League knockout phase tie. • This is Chelsea's second appearance in the UEFA Europa League knockout phase, their first, in 2012/13, having concluded with victory in the competition overall. Their road to that final in Amsterdam, where they defeated Benfica 2- 1, incorporated two wins and two defeats on their travels. They overcame Rubin Kazan 5-4 on aggregate in the quarter-final (3-1 home, 2-3 away). • Chelsea are now 13 games unbeaten in the UEFA Europa League – two shy of Atlético Madrid's competition record. Their last defeat was that 2-3 loss at Rubin, since when their away record in the UEFA Europa League is W5 D1, with 13 goals scored and four conceded. Links and trivia 4 SK Slavia Praha - Chelsea FC Thursday 11 April 2019 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Eden Arena, Prague • Chelsea lost on penalties to Bayern München at the Eden Arena in the 2013 UEFA Super Cup following a 2-2 draw, Hazard having scored the Blues' second goal at the start of extra time. David Luiz and Gary Cahill were also in the Chelsea starting XI. • Slavia's Slovakian international Miroslav Stoch joined Chelsea as a teenager but made only five appearances for the club, in 2008/09. • Tomáš Souček was in the Czech Republic side that lost their opening UEFA EURO 2020 qualifier 5-0 to England at Wembley Stadium on 22 March, with Slavia colleagues Milan Škoda and Lukáš Masopust both appearing as substitutes. Chelsea's Ross Barkley and Callum Hudson-Odoi, making his international debut, both came off the bench for England. • Slavia's tally of four goals in the group stage was the fewest by any of the 32 qualified teams, including the eight who finished third in their UEFA Champions League group. They have scored ten in their last three knockout fixtures.