It’s the Europa League! After the past two nights of Champions League drama, let’s keep up these levels of excitement shall we. Time for the last-16 first leg between Chelsea and Dynamo Kiev – in 45 minutes, anyway.

The teams are out at Stamford Bridge!

Eek.

50 up for Giroud tonight!

One Arsenal defender sent off, another has scored an own goal...

Ten minutes to go over in France.

Two spells at Stamford Bridge, could Jose really be set for another stint at the Bernabeu? Watch Euro Papers below!

So much has gone on in planet football at the moment, it’s easy to forget where Chelsea even stand with Sarri. The head coach has survived the storm, it would seem, but he can ill-afford a slip-up in Europe.

With the club sixth in the Premier League, you would have to say the Europa League is their best route to next season’s Champions League. What a nice present that would be for Lampard from Sarri (just kidding, I think…).

A total of seven changes from Sarri but still no room for Hudson-Odoi, who’s joined on the bench by Loftus-Cheek – oh, and Kante, Hazard and Higuain!

Giroud leads the line with Pedro and Willian in tow. Barkley starts alongside Kovacic and Jorginho in midfield. Christensen partners Luiz in defence, with Zappacosta and Alonso the full-backs. Kepa your keeper for the evening.

Chelsea XI: Kepa; Zappacosta, Christensen, Luiz, Alonso; Kovacic, Jorginho, Barkley; Pedro, Giroud, Willian

Subs: Caballero, Rudiger, Kante, Hazard, Higuain, Loftus-Cheek, Hudson-Odoi

Dynamo Kiev XI: Boyko; Kedziora, Burda, Shabanov, Mykolenko; Sydorchuk, Shepeliev; Tsygankov, Shaparenko, Buyalskiy; Rusyn.

Subs: Bushchan, Sidcley, Andriyevsky, Garmash, Tsitaishvili, Kadar, Smirniy

Before we look at the teams, I shall direct you to the Rennes vs Arsenal blog – the Gunners are a man down in France, with the score at 1-1.

That one will conclude by the time this one kicks off, so honestly, I won’t be offended…