Porto and Chelsea will take on each other at the Estadio do Dragao in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final on Wednesday. The kick-off is at 21:00 CET.

Preview

Porto had made the headlines across the world by eliminating one of the competition's favourites Juventus in the CL last-16 stage. Sergio Conceicao's men have followed that heroic achievemnt with three wins on the bounce in the Portuguese top flight but you can hardly evaluate the Dragons' current form on their performance in the domestic league.

Chelsea, for their part, suffered their first defeat with Thomas Tuchel at the helm of the club over the weekend as the Blues were destroyed 5-2 by the second-bottom West Bromwich on Saturday. That loss ended Chelsea's 14-game unbeaten streak under Tuchel that included clean-sheet victories over Atletico Madrid in the previous round of the CL.

Team news

The hosts will be without their key players Sergio Oliveira and Mehdi Taremi due to respective suspensions while Christian Pulisic and N'Golo Kante remain the only injury doubts in Chelsea's squad.

Prediction

You simply can't underestimate Porto after what they did to Juve last month but Chelsea have also been very impressive ever since Tuchel's appointment in the Stamford Bridge dugout in February. The West Brow loss aside, the Blues have been close to their perfect form under the German manager and their confident victories against Atletico serve as a proof of that. We'd say that Chelsea are very aware of Porto's threat and would like to decide the winner of this tie in Portugal on Wednesday.

Tip

Chelsea to win and total under 3.5 at 2.26 with 1XBET.