Chelsea 2-2 Paris Saint-Germain, Bayern Munich 7-0 Shakhtar Donetsk: Uefa Champions League as it happened
Chelsea are out of the Champions League! An absolutely immense performance from PSG after being reduced to 10 men after half an hour sees them through to the final eight on away goals.
David Luiz of all people equalised after Gary Cahill's opener to force extra time. An inexplicable hand ball from Thiago Silva allowed Chelsea to take command once again from the penalty spot, but the Brazil captain redeemed himself with a wonderful header to seal a decisive equaliser on the night.
A sensational performance from PSG will lift the pressure from Laurent Blanc's shoulders and an opportunity missed for Jose Mourinho.
Chelsea look like the side with 10 men at the minutes. They are off the pace, struggling to organise themselves in front of PSG and look increasingly nervous. This time it's Ivanovic who shuts off, allowing Maxwell to race into space down the left. He finds Matuidi whose shot is blocked by Matic, but Maxwell is unable to keep the rebound in play after taking a touch and Chelsea have a goal kick.
What a chance for Cavani! Verratti does exceptionally well in his own half, dragging the ball away from his marker to launch the attack. He moves it forward to Pastore whose through ball frees the Uruguayan who rounds Courtois and has the goal at his mercy! From a tough angle he shoots, but his effort comes back off the post and rolls out of play.
It's all kicking off a bit. PSG crowd the referee, feeling Chelsea have influenced his decision to send of their talismanic striker (who hadn't been too talismanic this evening, to be fair.)
Someone else is shown a yellow card during the melee, Pastore I think. The referee eventually manages to calm things a bit and a football match breaks out.
Bright start from PSG who immediately spring down the left channel. The ball is worked back into Verratti who slides a wonderful pass into the box for Cavani, but the striker has the ball clipped away from him on the turn. PSG lift the resulting corner into David Luiz, but Courtois confidently comes out and collects.
Speaking in his pre-match press conference this week, Jose Mourinho highlighted PSG as the most aggressive side they have faced this season.
This season we have played teams from the Championship, League One and League Two, but the most aggressive team was PSG. For a team with so much quality I expected more football.
I thought a team from England would never be surprised by aggression, because aggression is in our country.A team with fantastic players was the team making foul after the foul. [PSG] were the team that stopped Eden Hazard with fouls all the time, the team that was attacking the man in possession of the ball with two or three players very aggressively.
If to dominate is the number of chances created, yes Paris had more chances than us. If dominating means stopping your opponent from playing, making foul after foul, yes they also dominated."
Two changes for Paris Saint Germain from the first leg with midfield enforcer Thiago Motta back in the first team with Javier Pastore joining him. Gregory van der Wiel and Ezequiel Lavezzi make way, with David Luiz dropping back into centre half to complete an all Brazilian back-four for Laurent Blanc's side. That always works out well, right?
BREAKING: Nemanja Matic comes back into midfield alongside Ramires for Chelsea. Diego Costa leads the attack ahead of the trio of Oscar, Cesc Fabregas and Eden Hazard
Chelsea team to face PSG: Courtois, Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry, Azpilicueta, Matic, Ramires, Oscar, Fabregas, Hazard, Diego Costa
Subs: Cech, Filipe Luis, Zouma, Willian, Drogba, Remy, Cuadrado
Paris Saint Germain were inundated with injury concerns in the first leg, but have arrived in west London in better shape this week with Yohan Cabaye, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Thiago Motta are all in the squad having recovered from knocks.
Lucas Moura and full back Serge Aurier however are still unavailable after missing the first leg.
Chelsea's only absentee this evening is John Obi Mikel who remains sidelined with a knee problem.
Nemanja Matic meanwhile is back after recovering from an ankle injury he suffered while celebrating his side's League Cup success over Tottenham at the beginning of the month. The Serbian has had 10 days off having also missed last Wednesday's win over West Ham due to suspension, and is expected to be restored in the middle of the park this evening.
Chelsea welcome Laurent Blanc's Paris Saint-Germain this evening knowing a win or a goalless draw will be enough for them to book their place in the quarter finals of the Champions League.
Having secured their first silverware of the season in the Capital One Cup since then, Chelsea begin the evening as slight favourites.
At the quarter final stage of this competition last year, PSG arrived with a two goal lead. This time around, after a near-perfect performance away in Europe in the French capital a fortnight ago, Jose Mourinho's side are in a position where it is up to the opposition to force the issue, or face elimination.
We will have all your team news, in addition to all the build-up from this evening's other last 16 clash between Bayern Munich and Shakhtar Donetsk, coming your way shortly.
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