UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2018/19 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS (First leg: 1-0) Stamford Bridge - London Thursday 18 April 2019 Chelsea FC 21.00CET (20.00 local time) SK Slavia Praha Quarter-finals, Second leg Last updated 16/04/2019 18:11CET 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 19 1 Chelsea FC - SK Slavia Praha Thursday 18 April 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 11/04/2019 QF SK Slavia Praha - Chelsea FC 0-1 Prague Alonso 86 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 1 0 SK Slavia Praha 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 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 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 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 2 Chelsea FC - SK Slavia Praha Thursday 18 April 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Stamford Bridge, London UEFA Champions League 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 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Chelsea FC 3 1 2 0 4 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 7 4 3 0 8 3 SK Slavia Praha 6 1 1 4 4 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 10 1 2 7 4 18 3 Chelsea FC - SK Slavia Praha Thursday 18 April 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Stamford Bridge, London Match background A 1-0 first-leg win in the Czech Republic has put Chelsea in a strong position in their quarter-final tie against Slavia Praha. Should the London club extend their unbeaten run in the competition to a record-equalling 15th match, they will be through to the UEFA Europa League semi-finals for the second time. • Chelsea have won ten of their 11 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 overwhelming 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. • 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. Previous meetings • The first leg of this tie, which brought the clubs together for the first time in UEFA competition, looked set to finish goalless until Chelsea's Marcos Alonso won the game with an 86th-minute header from Willian's cross. • Chelsea are now unbeaten in seven matches against Czech clubs though they have won just one of the previous three at home, drawing their last two against Slavia’s city rivals Sparta Praha – 0-0 in the 2003/04 UEFA Champions League group stage and 1-1 in the 2012/13 UEFA Europa League round of 32, Eden Hazard scoring a stunning added-time equaliser in the Stamford Bridge return to take the London club through to the next round of a competition they would go on to win. • Slavia have won just one of their ten 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. Their heaviest European defeat was also against English opposition in London – 0-7 away to Arsenal in the 2007/08 UEFA Champions League group stage. 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 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 three successive 3-1 home wins after that 1-1 draw against Sparta. They overcame Russian side Rubin Kazan 5-4 on aggregate in the quarter-final. • Chelsea are now 14 games unbeaten in the UEFA Europa League, including the last three matches of their victorious 2013 campaign, the draw at Vidi the only game they did not win. They have yet to suffer a home defeat in this competition, winning all of their last eight, with Sparta still the only side to deny them victory at Stamford Bridge. • Chelsea have never been eliminated from UEFA competition after recording an away first-leg win, winning 11 ties out of 11. The most recent was in this season's round of 32 when they beat Malmö 2-1 away and then 3-0 at Stamford Bridge. The last of the four ties in which they won the away first leg 1-0 was that 2012/13 UEFA Europa League round of 32 contest against Sparta Praha. 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 4 Chelsea FC - SK Slavia Praha Thursday 18 April 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Stamford Bridge, London was that 1999/2000 UEFA Cup tie against Leeds. • The 4-1 triumph at Genk is one of only three wins in Slavia's last 27 European away fixtures (D10 L14).