Chelsea vs Real Madrid, Champions League live: score and latest updates

Chelsea in blue, blue and dinky white socks, Real in white, white and blue socks. 

Just the usual 'Die Besten' etc. 

Darren Fletcher is the commentator alongside Glenjamin Hoddle and, I fear, Robbie Savage. 

Few clues on the walk down from Fulham Broadway that anything is awry at Chelsea. Plenty in this season's shirts printed with "Champions 21" on the back, noisy travelling fans present and correct, the only tell is the absence of matchday programme vendors.

Inside it is as if someone has been running a Truman Show-style simulation of "perfect football weather". Sheets of rain for 20 minutes which have just stopped abruptly, so the pitch should be perfectly watered. A sad night for the pop-up sprinkler fans.

Thibaut Courtois and Carlo Ancelotti have been hobnobbing with some old friends close to the tunnel.

Thomas Tuchel, meanwhile, fully tracksuited and baseball capped, looks like a brooding youth standing ominously at a bus stop.

We have to learn from it [Brentford defeat]. It's a new competition, new opponent and we're ready to go.

[Rees] we waited for sol long for him to come back. It's time. Today he will play as long as possible. From quality and what he brings to the team he is a huge asset and it's great he starts.

[Pulisic] had three international matches and jet lag and we hope he has the impact we want him to have, we want to play a physical game, a real intense game. 

It's a midfield that has played for decades, they have speed on the left side in Vinicius and Mendy and we have prepared for that.

Stair-rodding in fact.

Thibaut Courtois is being interviewed.

I can understand that some people are still upset and might whistle me but I will always remember the nice moments. I have a lot of Chelsea fans as friends and I hope it will be a good reception. They will play with high intensity. If we can match that we have a lot of quality to win the game and take a good result back to the Bernabeu. 

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Chelsea are too fit, too strong, too powerful," says Steve McManaman as all three pundits, Rio Ferdinand and Joe Cole the other two, agree that it should be a comfortable home win. 

Chelsea  Mendy; Christensen, Thiago Silva, Rudiger; James, Kante, Jorginho, Azpilicueta; Mount, Pulisic, Havertz.Substitutes  Arrizabalaga, Bettinelli, Alonso, Kovacic, Lukaku, Werner, Loftus-Cheek, Chalobah, Saul, Ziyech, Kenedy, Sarr.

Real Madrid  Courtois; Carvajal, Eder Militao, Alaba, Mendy; Modric, Casemiro, Kroos, Valverde; Benzema, Vinicius Junior.Substitutes  Lunin, Vallejo, Nacho, Asensio, Marcelo, Lucas, Bale, Ceballos, Rodrygo, Mariano, Camavinga, Fuidias.

Referee Clement Turpin (France).