Overview
Chelsea are aiming for their third consecutive win in the Champions League group stage when they travel to Qarabag's home ground.
The Blues entered this match with high confidence after a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Tottenham in the Premier League last weekend. Joao Pedro's first goal in the tournament, after 8 waiting matches, brought 3 valuable points to coach Enzo Maresca's team.
After a poor start with a 1-3 defeat to Bayern Munich in the opening match, Chelsea quickly returned with a minimal 1-0 victory over Benfica, before burying Ajax with a score of 5-1.
Two consecutive victories in the European Cup helped Maresca reach the milestone of 20 wins after 23 international matches against Chelsea (excluding qualifiers), including the FIFA Club World Cup title last summer. Notably, the London team has scored in every of these matches, achieving an average of 2.9 goals per match (a total of 66 goals).
That impressive form comes despite Maresca often taking advantage of the Champions League to rotate his squad. Chelsea have given 25 different players the opportunity to play in the first three rounds - the highest number among the participating teams.
Their starting lineup is also among the youngest, with an average age of just 23 years and 339 days, behind only defending champion Paris Saint-Germain (23 years and 261 days).
However, youth is not an obstacle. With goals from Marc Guiu, Estevao and Tyrique George in the Ajax win, Chelsea became the first team in the history of the Champions League Cup to have 3 different teenagers score in the same match.
Qarabag are also in impressive form, having won six of their maximum points in the Champions League this season (W2 D1). That achievement shows a big step forward compared to their last participation in the 2017-2019 season, when they only earned 2/18 points as much as they could.
Two consecutive victories against Benfica and Copenhagen brought a favorable start for the Azerbaijani representative, before they lost 1-3 to Athletic Bilbao in the most recent match. Notably, Qarabag have scored 6 goals in 3 matches - three times the number of goals they scored in 2017-18 (2 goals).
One of the factors contributing to this positive change is Leandro Andrade. The Cape Verde midfielder has scored three goals in five appearances in European competition in 2025 - equal to the total of goals he scored in his previous 22 European games for Qarabag.
Head-to-head record
Chelsea have scored a total of 10 goals in two meetings with Qarabag in the Champions League. This is the Blues' highest scoring achievement in the first two matches against an opponent in this arena, equal to the record against Nordsjælland.
The two teams have only met twice, both in the group stage of the 2017-2019 season. At that time, Chelsea easily won 6-0 at home and 4-0 away.
Those results clearly reflect the difficulties of Qarabag when facing English teams in the European Cup. The Azerbaijani representative has lost all seven previous encounters, conceding a total of 21 goals.
Qarabag's only goal against an English side came from Richard Almeida's penalty against Tottenham in the 2015-16 Europa League.
Score prediction: Qarabag 0-2 Chelsea
The match between Qarabag and Chelsea takes place at 0:45 am on November 6 (Vietnam time).
