Chelsea will take to the field at sold-out Stamford Bridge this evening with a place in the Champions League final at stake, and you won’t want to miss the souvenir-edition matchday programme.
There’s a special illustrated cover for this issue, which is also included inside the programme as a pull-out poster.
After an epic performance in the first leg, centre-back Kadeisha Buchanan gives an extensive interview in which she looks back on what went right in Barcelona and why her Champions League-winning past with Lyon – including a triumph over Barca in the 2022 final – gives her added belief for this huge game.
‘As much as Barcelona play beautiful football and they’re massively talented, they’ve never beaten Lyon – and I was part of that Lyon side,’ she says. ‘That kind of gives me confidence going into a game against Barcelona.
'This team is beatable. You try to spread that throughout the locker room, throughout the team. People have beaten Barcelona. It’s a matter of believing. And we really believed that last Saturday. And we need to have an even bigger belief in this game.’
Blues boss Emma Hayes and captain Millie Bright give their thoughts going into the second leg in their usual programme columns while there’s also an interview with former Chelsea goalkeeper Hedvig Lindahl, who was the club for our first Champions League semi-final back in 2018.
For all this and much more, be sure to pick up your copy from the programme sellers around the ground on Saturday.