Good evening and welcome to Eurosport's LIVE text commentary of Chelsea's Europa League Group L clash at BATE Borisov. Having made a perfect start to their campaign, the Blues can confirm their spot in the last 32 of the competition with a victory in Belarus.

Europa League / Group Stage

Borisov Arena / 08.11.2018

BATE Borisov

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ByThe Editorial Team

Updated 08/11/2018 at 19:46 GMT

17:35

Loftus-Cheek netted a hat-trick as Chelsea won the reverse fixture 3-1 a fortnight ago, and his reward for his recent impressive form is a recall to the England squad.

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17:30

Sarri on playing Hazard: "According to our doctor there is not any risk, otherwise he would have stayed at Cobham, of course.

"We felt that for him it’s better to play, not for 90 minutes, but to play after two weeks of not playing.

"In the last match he played only for 30 minutes. The best way for him is that tomorrow he will play for 45 or 50 minutes."

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17:25

BATE TEAM NEWS

Starting XI: Scherbitski, Rios, Volkov, Filipenko, Filipovic, Hleb, Dragun, Baga, Skavysh, Signevich, Stasevich.

Subs: Chichkan, Yablonski, Berezkin, Ivanic, Tuominen, Polyakov, Moukam.

17:20

EDEN HAZARD STARTS

Having missed three recent matches with a back problem, the Belgian is a surprise inclusion in Maurizio Sarri's starting XI.

He is one of many new faces in the Blues' line-up which beat Crystal Palace 3-1 at the weekend, with Zappacosta, Cahill, Christensen, Emerson, Barkley, Loftus-Cheek and Giroud all restored to the team.

Morata and Fabregas didn't travel with the team.

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17:15

CHELSEA TEAM NEWS

Starting XI: Kepa, Zappacosta, Cahill, Christensen, Emerson, Barkley, Jorginho, Loftus-Cheek, Pedro, Giroud, Hazard.

Subs: Caballero, Azpilicueta, Ampadu, Kovacic, Kante, Hudson-Odoi, Willian.

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