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What the stats say ahead of Chelsea v Atletico

football17 March 2021 12:18
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Chelsea have won one of their three home UEFA Champions League matches against Atlético Madrid (D1 L1), a 4-0 win in the 2009-10 group stages. Their one home defeat was in the second leg of the semi-final in 2013-14, losing 3-1.

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Atlético Madrid have lost three UEFA Champions League matches against Chelsea, their joint-most against an opponent along with Bayern Munich and Real Madrid.

In their history in European competition, Chelsea have never been eliminated in a two-legged knockout tie after winning the first leg away from home (progressed from all 13). The two occasions they’ve been knocked out of the UEFA Champions League after winning the first leg are in 1999-00 vs Barcelona in the quarter-final and 2006-07 vs Liverpool in the semi-final.

Under Diego Simeone, Atlético Madrid are unbeaten in each of their previous two UEFA Champions League games at Stamford Bridge (W1 D1). Their only previous away game at Chelsea in the knockout stages of the competition came back in April 2014, as Atlético eliminated them in the semi-finals with a 3-1 victory in the second leg.

Atlético Madrid have a 50% progression rate in the European Cup/UEFA Champions League after losing the first leg of knockout ties, progressing from four of eight previous ties in these instances. Among the 72 teams to lose the first leg in at least five knockout ties, only Reims (60%, 3/5) have a higher progression rate in the history of the competition.

Nine of the last 10 managers to take charge of Chelsea in the UEFA Champions League have won their first home game, with Frank Lampard being the only exception (0-1 v Valencia in September 2019). Tuchel has only lost three of the 16 home games he has overseen as a manager in the UEFA Champions League (W11 D2).

Atlético Madrid have won just two of their last 10 away UEFA Champions League knockout matches (D2 L6) but both wins were at the last 16 stage – in 2016-17 vs Bayer Leverkusen and 2019-20 vs Liverpool.

Chelsea striker Olivier Giroud is averaging a goal every 38 minutes in the UEFA Champions League this season, the best ratio in a season of any player to play at least 200 minutes that season in the competition’s history. It’s the best in a European Cup season since Ton Blanker in 1979-80, who netted one goal every 34 minutes for Ajax.

Aged 34 years and 146 days, Chelsea’s Olivier Giroud became their oldest scorer in a UEFA Champions League knockout match in the first leg against Atlético. Should he score in the second leg, he will be the oldest player to score in both legs of a Champions League knockout tie (34y 168d). The current oldest is Zlatan Ibrahimovic vs Chelsea in 2015-16 for PSG in the last 16 (34y 158d).

Atlético Madrid striker Luis Suárez has failed to score in all five of his UEFA Champions League appearances for the club this season and hasn’t scored in any of his last 24 away appearances in the competition, since September 2015 with Barcelona at Roma, having 70 shots with an expected goal value of 9.6 in those 24 scoreless away games.

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