Legia Warsaw vs Chelsea Preview & Prediction

by Alex Lawes · April 7 2025, 12:57

Updated April 9 2025, 10:56

Legia Warsaw vs Chelsea Preview & Prediction

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Legia Warsaw have drifted to fifth in the Polish Ekstraklasa but now have a European quarter-final against two-time champions of Europe Chelsea to look forward to this week.

Kick-off date/time: Thursday 10th April, 2025: UK – 5:45pm / US ET – 12:45pm / US PT – 9:45am

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

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

Key Stats

This is the first UEFA competition match between these teams.
Chelsea are the fifth English team to face Legia Warszawa in a UEFA competition after Man. United, Blackburn Rovers, Leicester City and Aston Villa. Their most recent fixtures against an English opponent were vs Aston Villa in the 2023/24 UEFA Conference League group stage (W 3-2 h, L 1-2 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 have won their last three UEFA competition matches at home against English teams.
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).
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 have won ten of their previous 14 UEFA competition matches this season (D1 L3).
Legia Warszawa have kept nine clean sheets in their previous 14 UEFA competition matches this season.
Legia Warszawa have won eight of their last nine UEFA competition two-legged ties.
Legia Warszawa have won four of their last five UEFA competition matches at home without conceding a goal.
Ryoya Morishita has scored in three of his last four UEFA Conference League appearances for Legia.
This is Chelsea’s first UEFA competition match against a Polish team.
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 their last eight UEFA Conference League matches.
Chelsea have won their last four UEFA Conference League matches away from home.
Chelsea have won 11 of their last 14 UEFA competition two-legged ties.
None of Chelsea’s last 43 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 ten UEFA Conference League matches this season, including qualifying.

Legia Warsaw vs Chelsea Prediction

Legia Warsaw come into this one on the back of a much-needed come from behind 2-1 defeat of Gornik Zabrze away from home at the weekend courtesy of a second-half brace scored by Luquinhas. They have underperformed in the Polish Ekstraklasa but have remained quite entertaining to watch with their 27 matches consisting of 86 goals.

They now face a Chelsea side that have been genuinely very poor since mid-December when Enzo Maresca began to fiddle around with what appeared to be a settled and cohesive eleven as well as the club’s hierarchy producing another bizarre winter transfer window. They did manage to defeat Copenhagen in the Round of 16 of the UEFA Europa Conference League.

It appeared to be the case that Maresca was resting players for this week’s trip to the Polish capital so a Chelsea victory is to be expected but it could be quite a high-scoring affair.