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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2018/19 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Frankfurt Stadion - Frankfurt am Main Thursday 2 May 2019 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Eintracht Frankfurt Semi-finals, First leg Chelsea FC Last updated 30/04/2019 14:16CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 5 Team facts 7 Squad list 9 Fixtures and results 11 Match-by-match lineups 15 Match officials 19 Legend 20 1 Eintracht Frankfurt - Chelsea FC Thursday 2 May 2019 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Frankfurt Stadion, Frankfurt am Main Previous meetings Head to Head No UEFA competition matches have been played between these two teams Eintracht Frankfurt - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Eintracht Frankfurt - Newcastle Frankfurt am 30/11/2006 GS 0-0 United FC Main UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Eintracht Frankfurt - Tottenham 2-1 Frankfurt am Borchers 2, Cha 14; 17/03/1982 QF Hotspur FC agg: 2-3 Main Hoddle 80 Tottenham Hotspur FC - 03/03/1982 QF 2-0 London Miller 57, Hazard 81 Eintracht Frankfurt UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Brooking 49, 77, West Ham United FC - Eintracht 3-1 14/04/1976 SF London Robson 67; Frankfurt agg: 4-3 Beverungen 88 Eintracht Frankfurt - West Ham Frankfurt am Neuberger 29, Kraus 31/03/1976 SF 2-1 United FC Main 47; Paddon 9 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-0 Frankfurt am 26/09/1972 R1 Eintracht Frankfurt - Liverpool FC agg: 0-2 Main Keegan 12, Hughes 12/09/1972 R1 Liverpool FC - Eintracht Frankfurt 2-0 Liverpool 75 Chelsea FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Terry 2, Willian 29, Kirchhoff 44 (og), 25/11/2014 GS FC Schalke 04 - Chelsea FC 0-5 Gelsenkirchen Drogba 76, Ramires 78 Fàbregas 11; 17/09/2014 GS Chelsea FC - FC Schalke 04 1-1 London Huntelaar 62 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 06/11/2013 GS Chelsea FC - FC Schalke 04 3-0 London Eto'o 31, 54, Ba 83 Torres 5, 69, E. 22/10/2013 GS FC Schalke 04 - Chelsea FC 0-3 Gelsenkirchen Hazard 87 2 Eintracht Frankfurt - Chelsea FC Thursday 2 May 2019 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Frankfurt Stadion, Frankfurt am Main UEFA Super Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Ribéry 47, Javi FC Bayern München - Chelsea 2-2 Martínez 120+1 ET; 30/08/2013 F Prague FC (aet, 5-4 pens) Torres 8, E. Hazard 93 ET UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Bayern München - Chelsea 1-1 19/05/2012 F Munich Müller 83; Drogba 88 FC (aet, 3-4 pens) Derdiyok 73, M. Bayer 04 Leverkusen - Chelsea 23/11/2011 GS 2-1 Leverkusen Friedrich 90+1; FC Drogba 48 Chelsea FC - Bayer 04 David Luiz 67, Mata 13/09/2011 GS 2-0 London Leverkusen 90+2 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 06/11/2007 GS FC Schalke 04 - Chelsea FC 0-0 Gelsenkirchen 24/10/2007 GS Chelsea FC - FC Schalke 04 2-0 London Malouda 4, Drogba 47 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 22/11/2006 GS SV Werder Bremen - Chelsea FC 1-0 Bremen Mertesacker 27 Essien 24, Ballack 68 12/09/2006 GS Chelsea FC - SV Werder Bremen 2-0 London (P) UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Pizarro 65, Guerrero FC Bayern München - Chelsea 3-2 90, Scholl 90+5; 12/04/2005 QF Munich FC agg: 5-6 Lampard 30, Drogba 80 J.Cole 4, Lampard 60, Chelsea FC - FC Bayern 70, Drogba 81; 06/04/2005 QF 4-2 London München Schweinsteiger 52, Ballack 90+3 (P) UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-0 09/03/2004 R16 Chelsea FC - VfB Stuttgart London agg: 1-0 Fernando Meira 12 25/02/2004 R16 VfB Stuttgart - Chelsea FC 0-1 Stuttgart (og) UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Deschamps 11, Ferrer 03/11/1999 GS1 Chelsea FC - Hertha BSC Berlin 2-0 London 44 3 Eintracht Frankfurt - Chelsea FC Thursday 2 May 2019 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Frankfurt Stadion, Frankfurt am Main UEFA Champions League Daei 2, 69; Leboeuf 21/09/1999 GS1 Hertha BSC Berlin - Chelsea FC 2-1 Berlin 86 (P) UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 13/05/1998 F Chelsea FC - VfB Stuttgart 1-0 Solna Zola 70 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Eintracht Frankfurt 4 2 2 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 7 2 2 3 5 9 Chelsea FC 8 6 2 0 8 3 1 4 3 1 2 0 19 10 5 4 33 14 4 Eintracht Frankfurt - Chelsea FC Thursday 2 May 2019 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Frankfurt Stadion, Frankfurt am Main Match background Germany's last representatives in Europe this season, Eintracht Frankfurt, host unbeaten Chelsea as the two clubs meet for the first time with a place in the UEFA Europa League final at stake. • It has been an impressive campaign for Eintracht, who have lost just once en route to the last four. They topped Group H with maximum points, winning home and away against Lazio, Apollon Limassol and 2017/18 runners-up Marseille, before eliminating Shakhtar Donetsk, Internazionale and Benfica, all three of whom had transferred in mid- season from the UEFA Champions League. • Chelsea have won 11 of their 12 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, overwhelming Dynamo Kyiv 8-0 over the two legs in the last 16 and also winning both quarter-final matches against Slavia Praha (1-0 away, 4-3 home). Previous meetings • Eintracht have never faced Chelsea but have been involved in three previous two-legged UEFA competition ties against English clubs and lost them all. The last of those was in 1982, when Tottenham Hotspur defeated them 3-2 on aggregate in the European Cup Winners' Cup quarter-finals. • Frankfurt have faced English opposition just once since then, a 0-0 draw against Newcastle United in the 2006/07 UEFA Cup group stage preserving the German club's unbeaten home record against visitors from England (W2 D2). • Chelsea's record in 19 matches against Bundesliga opposition is W10 D5 L4, the first victory coming in the 1997/98 European Cup Winners' Cup final against Stuttgart (1-0). • The London club's last two visits to Germany brought big wins against Schalke – 3-0 in 2013/14, with Eden Hazard among the scorers, and 5-0 in 2014/15, in which Willian found the net. Chelsea's most memorable triumph on German soil, however, came in the 2012 UEFA Champions League final, when they defeated Bayern München on penalties in their home stadium after a 1-1 draw. Overall their away record in Germany is W3 D2 L4. Form guide Eintracht • A dramatic 2017/18 German Cup final victory over Bundesliga champions Bayern München – 3-1 in Berlin – gave Eintracht their first major silverware in 30 years and secured their first European campaign in five. • The 1980 UEFA Cup winners opened their Group H campaign with a 2-1 victory in Marseille and secured qualification by beating Lazio (4-1 home) and Apollon (2-0 home, 3-2 away), maintaining their winning streak against Marseille (4-0 home) and Lazio (2-1 away) to finish nine points clear of the Italian club. • A 2-2 draw at Shakhtar in the first leg of the round of 32 ended their winning run but a 4-1 victory in the return propelled them for the first time into the UEFA Europa League last 16, where they beat Inter 1-0 on aggregate (0-0 home, 1-0 away). In the quarter-final Frankfurt suffered their first defeat of the campaign, going down 4-2 with ten men at Benfica, but recovered to progress on away goals with a 2-0 home victory. • Eintracht's only other European participation in the past dozen seasons came in 2013/14, when they reached the UEFA Europa League round of 32 before going out to Porto. • Eintracht's overall record in the UEFA Europa League, home and away and including qualifying, is W16 D4 L2, the sole defeat prior to the one at Benfica having come away to Maccabi Tel-Aviv (2-4) in November 2013. Their home record in the competition is W9 D2, only Porto and Inter denying them victory. Chelsea • In the UEFA Europa League group stage for the first time this season, Chelsea eased through to the 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 (3-0 home, 5-0 away). They then made it six wins in a row against Slavia Praha in the quarter-finals. • 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.