UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2018/19 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS (First leg: 2-1) Stamford Bridge - London Thursday 21 February 2019 Chelsea FC 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Malmö FF Round of 32, Second leg Last updated 21/02/2019 11:25CET 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 Chelsea FC - Malmö FF Thursday 21 February 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Stamford Bridge, London Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Christiansen 80; 14/02/2019 R32 Malmö FF - Chelsea FC 1-2 Malmo Barkley 30, Giroud 58 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Chelsea FC 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 Malmö FF 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 Chelsea FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-0 01/10/1998 R1 Helsingborgs IF - Chelsea FC Helsingborg agg: 0-1 17/09/1998 R1 Chelsea FC - Helsingborgs IF 1-0 London Leboeuf 42 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-1 Hudson 46; Sandberg 03/11/1971 R2 Chelsea FC - Åtvidabergs FF London agg: 1-1 ag 66 20/10/1971 R2 Åtvidabergs FF - Chelsea FC 0-0 Atvidaberg Malmö FF - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-0 08/08/2013 QR3 Malmö FF - Swansea City AFC Malmo agg: 0-4 Michu 37, Bony 55, 01/08/2013 QR3 Swansea City AFC - Malmö FF 4-0 Swansea 59, Pozuelo 86 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Nottingham Forest FC - Malmö 1-0 26/09/1995 R1 Nottingham Roy 70 FF agg: 2-2 ag Persson 60, Anders Malmö FF - Nottingham Forest 12/09/1995 R1 2-1 Malmo Andersson 72; Woan FC 36 European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Nottingham Forest FC - Malmö 30/05/1979 F 1-0 Munich Francis 45+1 FF 2 Chelsea FC - Malmö FF Thursday 21 February 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Stamford Bridge, London Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Chelsea FC 2 1 1 0 3 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 5 2 3 0 4 2 Malmö FF 3 1 1 1 2 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 6 1 1 4 3 9 3 Chelsea FC - Malmö FF Thursday 21 February 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Stamford Bridge, London Match background Armed with a 2-1 win from the first leg in southern Sweden, Chelsea are well placed to reach the UEFA Europa League round of 16 at the expense of visitors Malmö as they bid to repeat their trophy triumph of six years ago. • Chelsea's round of 32 berth was booked on matchday four as they dominated Group L, dropping their only points on their final outing, when they were held 2-2 by Hungarian champions Vidi in Budapest. • Malmö created one of the upsets of the group stage as they qualified as runners-up in Group I, completing the double over Beşiktaş with a matchday six 1-0 win in Istanbul that enabled them to leapfrog their hosts into second place behind Genk. Previous meetings • A full house witnessed an entertaining first leg as Malmö and Chelsea met in UEFA competition for the first time. Goals from Ross Barkley – his first in Europe – and Olivier Giroud – his fifth in four UEFA Europa League games – put the visitors in control before Anders Christiansen gave the home fans something to cheer with a fine late consolation strike. • Chelsea's two previous ties against opponents from Sweden came in the European Cup Winners' Cup when they were holders of the trophy. They were eliminated by Åtvidaberg on away goals in the 1971/72 second round (after a 1- 1 draw at home), but got past Helsingborg in the first round 17 years later, Frank Leboeuf providing the only goal of the tie in the first leg at Stamford Bridge. • Malmö's most famous fixture against English opposition was their first – the 1979 European Champion Clubs' Cup final against Nottingham Forest, which they lost 1-0 in Munich. Their only win against an English club was also against Forest 16 years later – 2-1 at home in the UEFA Cup first round – but they lost the return 1-0 and exited on away goals. Form guide 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 made light work of negotiating a safe passage 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 on matchday six. • 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 route to that final in Amsterdam, where they defeated Benfica 2-1, incorporated three successive 3-1 wins at Stamford Bridge after they had overcome Sparta Praha in the round of 32 (1-0 away, 1-1 home). • Chelsea are now ten games unbeaten in the UEFA Europa League, including the last three matches of their victorious 2013 campaign, with the 2-2 draw at Vidi the only one of those games that did not result in victory. They have yet to suffer a home defeat in this competition (W6 D1) but have not won any of their last four springtime European fixtures at Stamford Bridge (D2 L2), since defeating Paris Saint-Germain 2-0 in the second leg of the 2013/14 UEFA Champions League quarter-final. • Chelsea have never been eliminated from UEFA competition after recording an away first-leg win, winning ten out of ten ties. The most recent was in the last semi-final of their triumphant 2012/13 UEFA Europa League campaign when they won 2-1 at Basel before a 3-1 success at Stamford Bridge. Malmö • Swedish champions for a record 20th time in 2017, Malmö began this season's European campaign in the UEFA Champions League first qualifying round. Their bid to reach that group stage for the third time in five years was ended on away goals by Vidi in the third qualifying round but they secured an autumn of European participation – as Sweden's sole representatives – by beating Danish title holders Midtjylland in the UEFA Europa League play-offs. • Malmö's only previous UEFA Europa League group stage involvement, in 2011/12, brought just a single point, but they chalked up nine this term, losing their opening fixture at Genk (0-2) but remaining unbeaten over the next five matchdays, three successive draws bookended by their two wins against Beşiktaş. • The Swedish club are competing in springtime European football for the first time since 1986/87 – when they lost 3-2 on aggregate (1-0 home, 1-3 away) in the European Cup Winners' Cup quarter-finals to a Marco van Basten-inspired Ajax, the eventual winners – and only the second time since that run to the European Cup final 40 years ago. • Malmö have lost only once on their European travels this term (W4 D2), keeping clean sheets in five of those seven fixtures. They have never won a European fixture outside Sweden in the spring (D2 L3). 4 Chelsea FC - Malmö FF Thursday 21 February 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Stamford Bridge, London • On all eight previous occasions that Malmö have been beaten at home in the first leg of a UEFA tie they have been unable to recover the deficit in the second fixture. The only other time they lost 1-2 at home in the opening leg, against Slavia Praha in the 1996/97 UEFA Cup first round, they were defeated 3-1 in the return. UEFA Europa League squad changes • Chelsea In: Danny Drinkwater, Gonzalo Higuaín Out: Cesc Fàbregas, Victor Moses, Álvaro Morata • Malmö In: Adi Nalic, Dušan Melichárek, Anel Ahmedhodžić, Lamin Sarr Out: Fredrik Andersson, Felix Konstandeliasz, Mathias Nilsson, Walter Viitala Links and trivia • Malmö coach Uwe Rösler played for Manchester City, Southampton and West Bromwich Albion and has also managed Brentford, Wigan Athletic, Leeds United and Fleetwood. • Markus Rosenberg (West Brom, 2012–14) and Marcus Antonsson (Leeds and Blackburn, 2016–18) have played in England. • Giroud is bidding to score in a fifth successive UEFA Europa League match and is now joint-second in this season's goal charts with five, one behind Salzburg's Munas Dabbur. • Chelsea's Ruben Loftus-Cheek is one of only two players to have scored a hat-trick in this season's UEFA Europa League proper, on matchday three at home to BATE. The other is Salzburg's Takumi Minamino, against Rosenborg. • All 11 players who started for Malmö in the first leg have featured in all seven matches since the start of the group stage.