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37-year-old Thiago Silva will miss Chelsea’s opening Champions League fixture after manager Thomas Tuchel confirmed the defender has remained in London to manage his workload.

"We decided with Thiago he will have a break from the travelling and the stress after playing every minute in very intense matches so far," he said.

"It was the moment to give him a break instead of putting him on the bench and have the travel issues so he can take care of his recovery.”

Tuchel added that tonight’s match offered an opportunity to bring all the first team squad which includes new recruit Denis Zakaria who has travelled to Croatia.

"We had the opportunity to take everybody who is in training and is available, and that includes Denis." said the Chelsea boss.

There are few who seem less comfortable with the concept of the heroic near-miss than Thomas Tuchel. The chances are that he is likelier to deem it unacceptable. When Chelsea’s defence of their Champions League trophy ended in glorious failure, beating Real Madrid in the Bernabeu after a magnificent comeback, but eliminated on aggregate by another, Tuchel cut a bad-tempered figure, complaining that referee Szymon Marciniak had smiled, laughed and had a good time with Real manager Carlo Ancelotti.

And if he might have inadvertently offered an insight into the amiable Ancelotti’s enduring success, the 2021 and 2022 Champions League-winning managers represent opposites. They showed there are very different ways to conquer Europe: Real spent much of the knockout stages trailing and their aggregate scores alone – 3-2, 5-4, 6-5 – conveyed some of the sense of the drama in their progress to Paris. Chelsea scored more goals in Madrid alone than they conceded – a mere two – in seven knockout matches the previous year.

That pyrrhic 3-2 triumph feels like their last great performance under Tuchel. There have been too few victories of any kind since then: just seven in 16 matches in all competitions. Few have had a good time at Stamford Bridge: certainly not Tuchel, who has cut an irascible figure at various stages, even if Chelsea’s seemingly scattergun spending has brought a few smiles to faces elsewhere.

Hello and welcome to The Independent’s coverage of tonight’s Champions League action. The new campaign kicks off in Croatia as Chelsea travel to face Dinamo Zagreb in Tuesday night’s early kick off.

The match gets underway at 5:45pm and we’ll be bringing you the line-ups and news from Europe’s top competition as we build-up to the start.

Chelsea have made a less than perfect start to the season as they try to solve their problems in front of goal and at the back. The Blues have looked uncharacteristically shaky in the Premier League thus far and have already slumped to defeats against Leeds and Southampton. They controversially beat West Ham 2-1 at the weekend after VAR cancelled out Maxwel Cornet’s late equaliser and sit sixth in the table with a negative goal difference.

Manager Thomas Tuchel hopes that 33-year-old striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang could be the answer to the Blues lack of ruthlessness in the final third and the former Arsenal striker looks set to play a part in tonight’s match whether as a starter or coming off the bench later on.