Chelsea and Maribor are matching up on the UEFA Champions League schedule on Tuesday and the game from Stamford Bridge is live on Fox and Fox Soccer 2Go streaming online as the Blues host and Jose Mourinho is looking for his club to play well in this Group G set and they will have to do it without best player Diego Costa as well as Andre Schurrle and Ramires and the matchup starts at 2:45 pm ET and 7:45 pm local time.
Costa is the leading scorer for the team and he has been the best player for the team all season, helping them to first place in the English Premier League. The team will use Didier Drogba or Loic Remy up front and that changes things up for the Blues, but they should still be in line to get some points here at home. The team already has four points from the first two matches in Champions League play and Maribor comes in with two.
Chelsea has a tough matchup at Old Trafford coming up next and he said that his team is ready for that and they have not looked past Maribor. The team is in first place in the Premier League standings and they have easily been the best team of the bunch so far. Chelsea is leading in goals scored and while Mourinho said he is concentrating on this match, he is hoping to have his down players back when the game comes up this weekend. Costa has been fantastic this year and he is one of the main reasons why the team is in this position.
The team comes in after a win against Crystal on the road and that came after a home win against Arsenal, who had been moving up the standings. The team already won against Sporting CP and they also drew with Schalke and now they have the chance to get things going after this game. The Man United matchup comes before QPR and then the two teams will play again in a couple weeks and that will be an away trip for Chelsea after this matchup.
Chelsea has a tough schedule for the rest of the calendar year in the Premier League and they also have the return trips to Maribor and Schalke. The team has QPR and then later has a game against Liverpool and that will be at Anfield. The team then has a home matchup with West Brom and that comes before Schalke and then in APL play they have Sunderland and then a home matchup with Tottenham before coming through into December with Newcastle after playing the Spurs at Stamford Bridge.
Check here for the Chelsea and Maribor live coverage from the Champions League.
