Chelsea have made Champions League history tonight 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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Joel Sanderson-Murray·8 August 2020

Chelsea have made Champions League history tonight 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Chelsea are going to need something close to a miracle to progress to the Champions League quarter-finals tonight.

Frank Lampard’s side need to overturn a 3-0 lead against Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena.

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Lampard has been consistent in giving opportunities to his youngsters this season and he has followed that path in Bavaria, making a little bit of Champions League history along the way with the starts of Callum Hudson-Odoi, Reece James and Mason Mount.

3 - Chelsea are the first team in Champions League history to start three Englishmen aged 21 or younger in a knockout match. Cubs.
– Saturday, 8 August 2020

They are going to have to become real history-makers to stand any chance of getting through.

0 - In the entire history of the European Cup and Champions League, no team has ever won by three or more goals in the first leg of a knockout match away from home and failed to progress, going through on all 92 previous occasions. Task.
– Saturday, 8 August 2020

Yikes.