PAOK vs Chelsea
UEFA Europa League
Date: Thursday, 20 September 2018
Kick-Off at 17:55 UK / 18:55 CET
Venue: Stadio Toumbas (Thessaloniki).
A silver cloud appeared over Stamford Bridge once a rather poor pre-season followed by a troublesome loss to Manchester town within the Community defend. still, the new head coach Maurizio Sarri managed to show Chelsea’s fortunes around simply at the correct time because the Blues suddenly became one in all main title challengers once creating a dream begin to the new Premier League campaign.
The team so appearance far better underneath saree than his subject precursor Antonio Conte. Chelsea have an ideal record with 5 wins type 5 within the prime flight of English soccer. They’ll be trying to bring such type into the continental competition as they're set to open proceedings in Europa League with the away fixture against PAOK on weekday evening.
PAOK vs Chelsea: Head-to-head
The two groups failed to have the prospect to lock horns within the past.
PAOK vs Chelsea: Prediction
Chelsea’s build-up play underneath Sarri has been fantastic recently. The team bagged as several as four goals within the comeback triumph over Cardiff town on weekday. Eden Hazard was sensible as he completed a hat-trick on the occasion, whereas Willian set the ultimate score late on.
Such style of the Blues will certainly provide Razvan Lucescu a headache sooner than the Thursday’s affair. PAOK are Europa League regulars for a minute currently, however they did very little to go away a deeper mark creating it to the knockout stages just one occasion in past 5 years.
The hosts began the new season within the domestic league in an exceedingly fine fashion winning seven points from 3 games. However, such run can count for tiny after they return face to face with such a powerful opposition.
Lucescu’s men struggled against European big-hitters Benfica within the Champions League play-offs, falling 1-4 within the reverse fixture on the house patch.
Sarri will certainly misunderstanding his beginning line-up here, however the Blues ought to still be too robust for the Greek outfit.
PAOK vs Chelsea: Standings