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Your support makes all the difference.Welcome to live coverage of tonight's crucial Champions League Last 16 second-leg fixture between Chelsea and Paris-Saint Germain a Stamford Bridge. Guus Hiddink's side will have to overturn a 2-1 deficit from the first leg to progress.
- The match kicks off at 7.45pm
- The teams meet in the knock-out stage for the third season in a row
- Captain Terry is out for Chelsea
- Away goals count over the two legs
- PSG are currently 23 points clear at the top of Ligue 1
- Follow the latest here:
Guus Hiddink wants under-fire pair Diego Costa and Eden Hazard to send Chelsea into the Champions League quarter-finals at the expense of Paris St Germain on Wednesday night.
PSG's social media team upped the ante on the eve of the last-16 second leg at Stamford Bridge with a video montage of masked super heroes titled 'Spot the fraud', which also included Costa, who has been playing with a protective mask due to a broken nose.
PSG boss Laurent Blanc also warned his players not to be provoked by Costa, who has a reputation for riling opponents.
Costa, available after missing last Saturday's draw with Stoke as a precaution over a minor tendon problem, has scored 10 goals in 14 games under Hiddink, but has just one Champions League goal in two seasons and 14 games with the Blues.
"I'm very proud of him the way he's playing and, going not over the edge, but he likes to fight in the real way of the game," Hiddink said.
"That's what we like. I protect him and support him when he's doing what he has done in my period at Chelsea.
"In the Premier League he frequently is scoring now, since December, January. Let's see and hope he can make it to the European level as well."
And for the visitors, Blanc has decided to start Rabiot instead of Verratti who, of course, has missed the last two games for PSG through injury. 
PSG team: Trapp, Marquinhos, Thiago Silva (c), David Luiz, Maxwell, Thiago Motta, Rabiot, Matuidi, Di Maria, Moura, Ibrahimovic. #CHEPSG
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PSG subs: Sirigu, Augustin, Van Der Wiel, Stambouli, Kurzawa, Pastore, Cavani. #CHEPSG
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For those wondering where Chelsea captain John Terry is tonight - he won't be playing. The defender still hasn't recovered from the hamstring injury that he sustained against Newcastle and so will sit out tonight's clash. Considering he could be leaving Chelsea at the end of this season, this could be his last Champions League outing as a Blues player...
So the PSG fans are being VERY vocal at the moment and, when Courtois came out to warm up, booed the goalkeeper extremely loudly. They've arrived early but we are still waiting for most of the home supporters to make their way through the rainy streets of west London and into the stadium. Meanwhile, let's look at form guide...
Chelsea remain unbeaten in 13 league games - the only defeat theyhave suffered since Jose Mourinho left the club in December was against PSG in the first leg of this last-16 Champions League tie.
PSG, meanwhile, have only lost once in the Champions Leaguethis season - away to Real Madrid in the group stages - and once in the league recently, a 2-1 loss away to Lyon.
The French giants are comfortably on course to win Ligue 1 this season, and will want to reign victorious in the Champions League this term too - an aim that has been foremost in their minds since their owners QSI took over a few years ago.
STAT:Chelsea are unbeaten in seven home games against French opposition - keeping five clean sheets in the process.
To add, the Blues have won eight of their 13 Uefa ties in which they had to come from a first-leg deficit at the Bridge.
A good omen for tonight maybe?
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