Chelsea manager Claudio Ranieri is undecided over whether to play Damien Duff and Adrian Mutu in the Champions League first knockout round second leg.

Winger Duff has yet to start a game this year after shoulder and Achilles injuries and admits the latter is still troubling him.

Striker Mutu missed the 1-0 victory at Manchester City with a hip injury and Ranieri admits the Romanian is not fit.

Juan Sebastian Veron, Emmanuel Petit and Mario Stanic are all still out.

John Terry insists Chelsea will defeat Stuttgart to be in Friday's quarter-final draw and is confident that they can go on and win the tournament.

The 23-year-old defender said: "We've got a mix of experience and youth and, deep down, every player believes we can win it.

"You have to have that confidence in yourself - we've already had a lot of wins and announced our arrival in European football.

"We always believe we can go and get a win and there's no point going if you don't believe that."

Stuttgart boss Felix Magath called his players to a clear-the-air dinner last week after a poor run of results in February and they responded by winning 2-0 at Borussia Dortmund on Saturday.

They are third in the Bundesliga and will hope for better luck against Chelsea than on their last visit to England.

They lost 2-0 against Manchester United in a Champions League group game in December.
bbc.co.uk


I think Chelsea will go through. If Stuttgart scores an earlier goal they might get a surprise.

well, stuttgart are more known for their defence..

I suppose that if they get an early goal it'll be really tough for Chelsea.

1-0 Chelsea.

Lampard.

Stuttgart can't score many goals, so they will almost certainly lose.

Chelsea 2:1 Stuttgart.
Hasselbaink, Lampard - Hinkel

Chelsea to win this one.

1-0 Chelsea
Parker

I've got a funny feeling...

2-1 Stuttgart, and Ranieri gets sacked.

The young boys will want it tonight, and Chelsea is probably going to try and pass the ball and play defense all night.

I sure hope I am right about the score... Everyone needs to finally find out that you can't buy a championship.

Chelsea 2-0.

Gallas and Crespo.

0-0 at the half. Stuttgart still have a chance.

a small but still :crazyboy:

Originally posted by cyrex
a small but still :crazyboy:

they just need a sloppy goal, and we are in extra time. Chelsea are ****, and these last two games have proved it.

The same can be said about Stuttgart if Chelsea get one sloppy goal, Stuttgart find themselves needing 3.

man all the games are boring tonight, so far 2 goals in 4 games. Doesnt help the statement that soccer is boring cuz there arent enough goals in the games.

I was very impressed with stuttgart(didnt even know they had those kinds of skills),they outplayed chelsea all game

Chelsea are through. A few facts about the game

- Stuttgart can't score
- Hildebrand was awesome
- Chelsea needs to get rid of Ranieri. I thought I was watching the Italian national team. They did nothing to score a goal.

we didnt have to mate.........we won and we came closer to scoring than Stuttgart ever did........as soon as a Chelsea attack crossed the halfway line they were chopped to the ground.......thats not good defending ..thats thuggery......lucky for Stuttgart Kim Nielson the English hater was the ref .anyone else would have sent off 3 of the players.......still at the end of the day we go through and they go out.............:rockman:

Congrats to Chelsea.(Y)

cheers man.....condolences to you guys.....i for one am sorry to see you go out

(H) (H) (H)

Nice One Chelsea...flying the flag for England;)

congrats to chelsea, but, rly, that was a very pathetic game. i fall asleep whenever i see chelsea play.

Stuttgart was doing very very well... they just need to finish better... pity it'll be chelsea that I'll be watching in the 1/4 finals.

Oi steady UGLUK.............after all the things i've done for you man..................i am sorely dissapointed....hehehehhehehe:D

pede, i'll always love you, but i'll never love chelsea until they learn how to play. :crazyboy:

Awell, job done.

go to hell chelsea! :f***:

Soccergaming needs the ( A ) emotion from MSN. :boohoo:

Wins are all that matter in knockout tournaments. Considering the injury issues to the first team players, suck it. (H)

When was the last time we had an all English CL final? Arsenal vs Chelsea :p

hmm doesnt look like there has been one?
http://www.uefa.com/competitions/ucl/AllTimeStatistics/index.html

damn:kader: i was hopin' chelsea would be eliminated. no matter, they'll still end the season trophy-less(H)

I was hoping that you would run into a bus.