Atalanta vs Chelsea: Confirmed line-ups in Champions League

Chelsea travel to Atalanta tonight in a bid to further boost their chances of qualifying for the Champions League knockout phase.

The Blues are flying high off the back of a fantastic 3-0 win over Barcelona last time out, and are sitting comfortably inside the top eight of the standings.

Atalanta are performing just as well, sitting level on points with the Premier League side and looking to leapfrog them heading into the final two fixtures.

101GreatGoals.com has full team news from Atalanta vs Chelsea, as well as details on how to watch the action live.

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Atalanta starting lineup vs Chelsea

Atalanta starting XI: Carnesecchi, Kossounou, Djimsiti, Kolasinac, Bellanova, De Roon, Ederson, Bernasconi, De Ketelaere, Scamacca, Lookman

Atalanta subs: Sportiello, Hien, Musah, Pašalić, Samardžić, Scalvini, Brescianini, Zalewski, Ahanor, Maldini, Zappacosta, Krstović

Chelsea starting lineup vs Atalanta

Chelsea make five changes from the team that drew 0-0 at Bournemouth.

Josh Acheampong, Jamie Gittens, Moises Caicedo, Joao Pedro and Benoit Badiashile come into Enzo Maresca’s starting XI.

Malo Gusto, Wesley Fofana, Cole Palmer, Alejandro Garnacho and Liam Delap drop out. Palmer and Delap miss out on the squad entirely, with the latter expected to be around for several weeks with a shoulder injury.

Chelsea starting XI: Sanchez, Chalobah, Acheampong, Badiashile, Cucurella, Caicedo, James, Neto, Enzo, Gittens, Pedro

Chelsea subs: Jorgensen, Merrick, Gusto, Fofana, Hato, Tosin, Andrey Santos, Buonanotte, Estevao, Garnacho, George, Guiu

How to watch Atalanta v Chelsea: TV channel, online live stream

Kick-off on Tuesday is at 20:00 GMT (15:00 ET / 12:00 PT). Live TV coverage in the UK is on TNT Sports 1, TNT Sports Ultimate and the Discovery Plus app.

TNT Sports costs £29.99 a month through Discovery Plus, which includes Eurosport and entertainment and is available on a vast range of devices including smart TVs and gaming consoles.

Atalanta v Chelsea stats

• Atalanta have kept eight clean sheets in their 15 UEFA Champions League games since the start of last season. Among teams to have played in both campaigns, only Internazionale (55% – 11/20) have a higher clean sheet rate than Atalanta (53%).
• This will be Chelsea’s first away game against an Italian opponent since October 2022, in a 2-0 victory away to Milan. Prior to that game, the Blues had only won one of their first 10 matches away to Italian sides in the UEFA Champions League (D3 L6): 4-0 v Lazio in November 2003.
• Only Man City (91.5%) and PSG (91.2%) have a higher passing accuracy than Chelsea in the UEFA Champions League this season, with the Blues’ 89.3% their highest on record (since 2003-04) in a single campaign in the competition.

Champions League fixtures this week

All fixtures kick off at 20:00 GMT unless otherwise specified.

Tuesday, December 9

Kairat Almaty 0-1 Olympiacos (15:30)

Bayern Munich vs Sporting CP (17:45)

Atalanta vs Chelsea

Barcelona vs Frankfurt

Inter vs Liverpool

Monaco vs Galatasaray

PSV Eindhoven vs Altetico Madrid

Tottenham vs Slavia Prague

Union St.Gilloise vs Marseille

Wednesday, December 10

Qarabag vs Ajax (17:45)

Villarreal vs FC Copenhagen (17:45)

Athletic Club vs PSG

Bayer Leverkusen vs Newcastle

Benfica vs Napoli

Borussia Dortmund vs Bodo/Glimt

Club Brugge vs Arsenal

Juventus vs Pafos FC

Real Madrid vs Manchester City