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A 10th campaign in the Champions League begins at home tonight with two previous beaten finalists going head to head. Club historian Rick Glanvill and club statistician Paul Dutton preview the start of Chelsea's quest to go one better…

And so begins another attempt to lift the trophy that first eluded us way back in 1955/56. It was then that the Football League saw the inaugural European Cup as an unwelcome challenge to domestic prestige and forced Chelsea to refuse the invitation to contest it.

In the 55 years since we have qualified ten times, playing our 100th match at this level (excluding qualifiers) in the quarter-final against Manchester United last season.

This is the Blues' ninth successive season in Uefa's elite competition and we have never failed to proceed to the knockout rounds, finishing top of our group in six of the last eight campaigns.

There is something very family-oriented about this year's gathering of Chelsea, Bayer, Valencia and Racing Genk in Group E. The Blues bought goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois from Genk in the summer and loaned him to Atlético Madrid, where he has kept two clean sheets in three appearances. He had been voted the Belgian team's player of the season in 2010/11.

By small coincidence the only goal he has conceded in Spain was at the weekend, away to Valencia. Valencia's Estadio Mestalla was home, from 2008 until last month, to Juan Mata the clever forward who has already had such an immensely creative impact at Chelsea.

And, of course, tonight's visitors from Germany, Bayer Leverkusen, have in their squad a player who was so prominent at Chelsea from 2006 to 2010. Michael Ballack was a powerful and popular presence in the Blues' midfield: a born leader with a visceral hatred of defeat.

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The atmosphere in the training ground looks brilliant. There's some other great pictures posted by pharaon in his thread in the Chelsea Multimedia.

Great pictures, and those pictures also give some indication there is no hard feeling against Torres interview, well if it is correct translated.

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I would play Juandando so they would gel better against ManU. Leverkusen are not to be underestimated though... AVB will also want to get his CL debut off the mark with a solid win, so we'll probably see our best line-up and some key players rested in 2nd half. If we are winning 2/3-0 in the middle of 2nd half, I say give Kalou a run. Perhaps he can score a tap-in and raise his confidence level, we'll never know when we'll be forced to use him more regularly.. it will hopefully also help raise his price tag :P And as a sub against tired legs he ain't as bad as when he's facing players on same energy level as him.

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