Chelsea faces FC Porto at Seville

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Champions League is here, as Chelsea Fc faces Fc Porto in their quarterfinal match. Chelsea will be looking to shake off the 5-2 defeat to West Brom, over the weekend and seek victory over Fc Porto.

Chelsea faces Fc Porto for the fifth time in the Champions League. They've met three times in the group stage and once in the knockout stage, with Chelsea winning five times, losing twice, and one draw in eight meetings.

The London team head into the quarter-final match unbeaten in this year Champions League and have only lost one match on the road in 15 matches in the Champions League, winning 11 and drawing 3 of them. Their only loss came against current Champions, Bayern Munich, in the last year's edition.

Chelsea have an astonishing record against Portuguese sides, having won 10, 1 draw and 2 losses to them, which both came against Porto. The Portuguese side sent Italian champions, Juventus packing on away goal in the Knockout stage. Chelsea have played Portuguese sides in the knockout stage three times and advanced to the next round on all occasions.

Chelsea are looking to make it five consecutive away wins in the Champions League for the first time since 2004, they will also be looking to continue their clean sheet record, having only conceding just twice this term. Manchester City has conceded(1) fewer goals to Chelsea's two, with Edouard Mendy keeping six clean sheets, one fewer than City's Ederson.

Chelsea's Hakim Ziyech and Matteo Kovacic will be looking to avoid getting a yellow card, as this will get them suspended from the second leg of the tie. With Porto missing the duo of Sergio Oliveira and Mehdi Taremi, due to suspension, after being yellow-carded in their last match against Juventus.