Update for Champions League second round fixtures to be played on Tuesday, February, 16
Paris Saint-Germain will host Chelsea in the Champions League second round clash (Getty Images)
Paris Saint-Germain will today host Chelsea in the first leg of second round of the Champions League while Zenit Saint Petersburg travel to Portugal to face Benfica.
Chelsea have had a poor season in the Premier League (Kevin Quigley/Daily Mail)
Paris
Saint-Germain and Chelsea have experienced starkly contrasting
campaigns so far, with Chelsea starting badly with only four wins from
their opening 16 league matches, a run of form that saw Jose Mourinho sacked and replaced by Guus Hiddink in December.
Things improved somewhat under the Dutchman and Chelsea now occupy 12th in the table after going 10 games unbeaten.
Meanwhile, PSG are yet to lose in Ligue 1 after 26 games this season, have reached the final of the Coupe de la Ligue and are in the last eight of the Coupe de France.
John Terry is out for Chelsea due to injury he sustained during their 5-1 thumping of Newcastle United in their weekend Premier League clash.
John Terry will not be playing in the game against PSG (Reuters)
Russian champions,
Zenit have not played a competitive game since their final group stage
match in December due to the Premier League's mid-season break, but
training camps in Portugal and Qatar were arranged to prepare for the
Benfica clash.
Villas-Boas and his players have not played a competitive game since December, 2015 (Omnisports)
Recent history in
meetings between the two sides is evenly matched. Benfica defeated Zenit
4-3 on aggregate at this stage of the 2011-12 tournament, while the
teams also met in the Champions League group stages last season, with Villas-Boas' men coming out on top in both fixtures.
Benfica will be hosting Zenit (Omnisports)
Benfica finished second in Group C behind Atletico Madrid to reach the knockout stages, but Rui Vitoria's side saw their recent eight-match winning streak in the Primeira Liga with a 2-1 home defeat to title rivals Porto on Friday.
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