Chelsea vs Legia Warsaw Preview: Team News & Prediction

by Alex Lawes · April 15 2025, 13:40

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Chelsea were always expected to win the UEFA Europa Conference League and they should wrap up this quarter-final tie as Legia Warsaw travel to Stamford Bridge this week.

Kick-off date/time: Thursday 17th April, 2025: UK – 8:00pm / US ET – 3:00pm / US PT – 12:00pm

How to watch on TV: UK – TNT Sports / US – Not televised

How to watch online: UK – Discovery+ / US – Paramount+

Key Stats

Chelsea have won their last nine UEFA Conference League matches. This is their longest sequence of successive wins in UEFA competition history.
Chelsea have won their previous five UEFA competition home matches this season.
Chelsea are participating in their 19th UEFA competition quarter-final tie, their record is 14 wins from 18 ties. However, they have lost the last two, both in the UEFA Champions League against Real Madrid (2021/22 and 2022/23).
Chelsea have won 11 of their last 14 UEFA competition two-legged ties.
None of Chelsea’s last 44 UEFA competition matches finished without a goal being scored. The last 0-0 was at home against Sevilla on Matchday 1 of the 2020/21 UEFA Champions League group stage.
Chelsea have opened the scoring in their previous 11 UEFA Conference League matches this season, including qualifying.
Legia Warszawa are without a win in their previous four UEFA competition matches away from home against English teams (D2 L2).
Legia Warszawa have lost four of their last five UEFA Conference League matches (W1).
This is Legia Warszawa’s sixth UEFA competition quarter-final. They have won two of the previous five; A 3-1 aggregate victory against Galatasaray in the 1969/70 European Cup (1-1 a, 2-0 h) and a 3-2 success on aggregate against Sampdoria in the 1990/91 Cup Winners’ Cup (1-0 h, 2-2 a).
Legia Warszawa’s only previous UEFA knockout tie against an English team was a 2-4 aggregate defeat against Man. United in the 1990/91 Cup Winners’ Cup semi-final (1-3 h, 1-1 a).
Legia Warszawa are through to their first UEFA competition quarter-final since the 1995/96 UEFA Champions League when they were defeated 0-3 on aggregate by Panathinaikos (0-0 h, 0-3 a).
Legia Warszawa have won eight of their last nine UEFA competition two-legged ties.
Legia have not failed to score in their last ten UEFA competition matches away from home. They scored 23 goals in the ten matches.

Chelsea vs Legia Warsaw Prediction

Chelsea ran riot in the first-leg of this UEFA Europa Conference League quarter-final tie in the Polish capital of Warsaw last week. They defeated Legia Warsaw by three goals to nil thanks to a Tyrique George goal as well as a brace scored by Noni Madueke.

The Blues have managed just five victories in 16 Premier League matches and continued their underwhelming form of the last few months with a 2-2 draw against Ipswich Town, fighting back from 2-0 down at Stamford Bridge at the weekend. Legia Warsaw, on the other hand, did rotate heavily as they suffered a 1-0 loss at home to fellow UEFA Europa Conference League quarter-finalists Jagiellonia Bialystok in the Polish Ekstraklasa the other day.

Chelsea will once again heavily rotate here with their 3-0 aggregate lead and so, although they should still win comfortably, it may be a case of going through the motions for the hosts.