Chelsea vs Real Madrid LIVE: Champions League latest score and goal updates

This game should be a cracker. Chelsea are the reigning European champions going up against the 13x Champions League winners Real Madrid.

It could go either way but history is on Chelsea’s side. They have never been beaten by Madrid and Thomas Tuchel has never lost to a Spanish side as a manager. Is tonight the night they do so or can the Blues take and advantage to the Bernabeu for the second leg?

Lets find out. Here come the players.

A note on the team selection from Chelsea boss, Thomas Tuchel, who explained why he chose to go with Cesar Azpilicueta over Marcos Alonso.

He told BT Sport: “Azpilicueta will play on the left. Pulišić can cause problems for any team, he is back after huge travel demands during the international break and we hope that he has the impact we want him to have.”

David Alaba is making his 100th Champions League appearance tonight and is the first Austrian to reach that mark.

Of his first 99 matches in the competition, he has won 69, which is already the most wins any player has managed within his first 100 matches in the competition.

Since Thomas Tuchel’s first Champions League game in charge of Chelsea, the Blues have kept 10 clean sheets in 15 games; the most of any team.

They also have the lowest goals conceded per game ratio during this period (0.47), conceding just seven times.

There’s quite a lot of rain around Stamford Bridge as the players warm up on the pitch. Who will have a big role to play this evening?

Mason Mount makes his 150th appearance for Chelsea in all competitions tonight, with 25 of those games coming in the Champions League.

He’s been involved in 50 goals for the Blues (25 goals and 25 assists) with five coming in this competition (scored two and assisting three).

Chelsea have played 13 two-legged knockout ties against Spanish clubs - they’ve won six and lost seven of those games. The London club were unbeaten in their first five home knockout games against Spanish teams in Uefa competition (four wins, one draw) but have managed only three victories in the eight subsequent matches (three draws, two defeats).

Thomas Tuchel is also unbeaten as a head coach against Spanish clubs with four wins and five draws.

Thibaut Courtois has urged Chelsea’s eventual new owners to take the Stamford Bridge helm aware that they are buying “one of the best clubs in the world”.

The Belgium goalkeeper will be back on his old Stamford Bridge stomping ground when Real Madrid pitch up for Wednesday’s Champions League quarter-final first leg.

Four rival consortiums are locked in negotiations to buy Chelsea from Roman Abramovich, who is selling the west London club amid Russia’s continued invasion of Ukraine.

And the 29-year-old Courtois called on Chelsea’s suitors to keep the Blues at the top of the world game.

Chelsea and Real Madrid have both scored 17 and conceded five goals in their eight Champions League matches this season.

Real Madrid have faced Chelsea five times without beating them. It’s the most games against a single opponent that the Spainsh team have played without registering a win.

Edouard Mendy kept nine clean sheets in 12 Champions League matches last season, the most in a campaign by a goalkeeper for an English side in the competition’s history.

He has added another five from his seven appearances this term, conceding only two goals.