Chelsea vs Real Madrid LIVE: Result and reaction from Champions League quarter-final as Blues crash out

8 mins: The first sign of space for Vinicius Jr comes from Eder Militao’s cross field pass. Vinicius hugs the touchline and sprints forward as the ball drops before cutting inside of Reece James and lifting a cross over to the back post.

Karim Benzema is the target but the ball sails over his head and skips behind for a goal kick.

6 mins: Reece James had a tough night at the Bernabeu up against Vinicius Junior. So far tonight, he’s sticking closer to the Real winger and is getting able cover from Wesley Fofana to stop his runs down the left wing.

Camavinga nips inside with the ball and is brought down in the middle of the pitch by N’Golo Kante.

3 mins: A testing pass back from Eduardo Camavinga almost sees Kai Havertz nick the ball but it rolls past his outstretched leg and David Alaba switches the play quickly to calm things down again for the visitors.

Real Madrid have seen most of the ball in these opening minutes.

Conor Gallagher gets the ball rolling at Stamford Bridge and knocks it back to Thiago Silva. He floats a diagonal ball over to the left wing where Marc Cucurella pushes high and nods the ball out of play when trying to control it.

The players step out of the tunnel at Stamford Bridge and walk onto the pitch.

This is a massive night for Chelsea, if they overturn this two-goal deficit they could go on to win the Champions League. Fail to do so and they’re consigned to one of their worst seasons in almost two decades.

Kick off is next...

The warm-ups are all done and dusted. The teams will be heading onto the pitch in a couple of minutes time. Nerves will be flying and there’s a hum of anticipation inside the stadium.

For all their contrasting histories in the Champions League, Frank Lampard and Thomas Tuchel have this week found themselves in similar positions. They have both had to try and make their squads believe they can overcome almost overwhelming situations.

Chelsea are 2-0 down to Real Madrid and Bayern Munich 3-0 down to Manchester City, but the two managers are trying to get their players to overlook these bare facts. Tuchel has been telling his players that, in general play, they were as good as City and it was only individual moments that cost them. The stirring talk is that, consequently, they can just as easily score three.

Lampard has meanwhile been drawing on 2012 again, and how his Chelsea team were also two goals down to Napoli before the most famous comeback in the club’s history.

Thibaut Courtois never faced Real Madrid when he was a Chelsea player but since moving to Spain he has come up against his old side five times so far.

Tonight, on his sixth appearance against the Blues he’ll look to add to the three wins and a draw he has in games with them so far.

Chelsea boss Frank Lampard spoke to BT Sport before tonight’s second leg against Real Madrid.

“When I look at us at the moment, firstly you have to respect the opponent and level of game. You have to pick players who are in good shape and in good nick.

“With the wing-backs, shaping up like we were last week, that was part of the game we didn’t use enough. We have the legs and energy in there.

“It’s a reality of where we are. We know we want more goals as a team. You can’t wave a magic wand and just tell players to start scoring more goals.

“We have to stay in the game, keep a clean sheet, then we have impact players coming off the bench. I said to the players before, it’ll probably be a player or players coming off the bench who make the difference.”

This evening’s match marks Toni Kroos’ 150th game in all European competitions.

During that time he has won the Champions League with two separate clubs - four times at Real Madrid and once at Bayern Munich.

Perhaps most famously Kroos was a part of the Real Madrid side that lifted the trophy in three consecutive years in 2016, 2017 and 2018.