FULL TIME: Chelsea 2-0 Lille The whistle goes, and Chelsea take a healthy two-goal lead to France for the second leg in three weeks’ time! 90 min +5: Mendy restarts the game ... and slips while kicking the ball, sending it straight to the nearby Ben Arfa. The Chelsea keeper is very fortunate that the Lille man can’t control. 90 min +4: Silva goes down to receive some treatment, a clock-management masterclass. 90 min +3: Ben Arfa drives down the left and nearly wins another corner. Nearly. Pressure off, though Chelsea could do with hearing the final whistle, because the visitors are desperate for that narrative-changing late goal. 90 min +1: In the first of five extra minutes, the corner’s worked back to Gudmundsson, who may have just broken some of the windows in the Chelsea hotel with one of the wildest volleys you’ll see for a while. 90 min: Bamba hoicks in. Chelsea clear ... but then Kante brings the bouncing ball down with an arm, and it’s another free kick, on the left this time. Ben Arfa takes long, forcing Havertz to head out for a corner. 89 min: Saul needlessly clips Ben Arfa out on the Lille right. A chance for the hosts to load the box, in search of a late goal that would completely alter the complexion of this tie. 88 min: Azpilicueta, out on the right, floats towards Havertz at the far stick. Celik does well to get in front of the Chelsea man, who was winding his neck back and waiting to head home from close range. Corner. 87 min: ... Werner, breaking down the right, is cynically hauled back by Ben Arfa. In true London bus style, you wait 83 minutes for a booking, then two come along at once. 86 min: Gudmundsson strides down the left and nearly gets clear of Silva, but the Brazilian veteran extends a leg to poke out for a corner. The set piece is worked back to Ben Arfa, who shoots through a crowded box. Deflected. Corner take two. This one’s cleared by Chelsea, and ... 85 min: Havertz and Werner combine down the inside-right channel and into the box. They continue to busy themselves until the former reaches the byline and scoops a cross into Leo Jardim’s arms. 83 min: The first booking of the evening, as Loftus-Cheek clips Bamba with a late lunge. 82 min: In terms of possession, it’s been exactly 50-50 up to this point ... but Chelsea have a cutting edge, something Lille signally have not. 81 min: Both teams make a couple of changes. Chelsea send on Werner and Sarr in place of Alonso and Pulisic, while Sanches and the disappointing David make way for Ben Arfa and Zhegrova. 80 min: Kante slips wide right for Azpilicueta, whose low cross deflects out for a corner ... or is it a goal kick? Goal kick. Must have pinballed back off the Chelsea captain. 78 min: Sanches works hard down the right to earn himself a bit of space. But with options available either side, he carelessly clanks the ball out for a goal kick. Lille have played some attractive stuff in the middle of the park, but they’ve been no use whatsoever in the final third. Mendy hasn’t had his hands warmed once. 76 min: Djalo has picked up a knock and is replaced by Gudmundsson. 75 min: Havertz is shoulder barged into the advertising hoardings by Botman. An old-fashioned but legal challenge. Havertz takes a while to regain his composure, but he’s OK to continue. 73 min: Lille deal with the corner in a much less frantic style. 72 min: Saul crosses low from the left. Nobody in blue attacks the ball as it trundles through the six-yard box. Nobody in white deals with it, either, until Botman slaps wide right in a panic. 70 min: ... so David takes things into his own hands, and probes down the left. His speculative shot earns a corner. Bamba takes. Half cleared, back to Bamba, who loops take two towards the far stick. Botman wins a header, but it’s a soft one that wafts into Mendy’s arms. 69 min: Lille enjoy a bit of possession, but it’s all in their own half. Chelsea are more than happy to sit and watch them go nowhere. 67 min: Chelsea were beginning to look a little ragged before their second goal. Now they’ve got new reserves of energy and are first to most things. 65 min: Lille respond with an attacking substitution, sending on Burak Yilmaz in place of Onana, striker for attacking midfielder. GOAL! Chelsea 2-0 Lille (Pulisic 63) Pulisic scores this, but it’s all about Kante, who bursts down the middle from deep, ball glued to his toe. He reaches the edge of the D, and slips to Pulisic on his left. Pulisic takes a touch to steady himself and draw Leo Jardim, before dinking over the keeper and into the bottom right. Lovely finish, but what a run by Kante! 61 min: Lille stroke it around awhile. Their fans respond by giving it plenty. 60 min: Ziyech comes back on, then goes straight down again. He hauls himself back up, and trudges off sadly, Saul Niguez coming on in his place. 58 min: With Ziyech off the field of play, still receiving treatment, Havertz opts to go it alone. He wheechs down the left at warp speed, before flashing a rising shot over the bar from a tight angle. 57 min: Now Ziyech is down feeling his heel. He suddenly pulled up with nobody near him. 55 min: Footage of Kovacic limping extremely gingerly down the tunnel and towards the treatment room. He looks in a fair bit of pain. Not a great sight for Chelsea with the League Cup final against Liverpool coming up on Sunday. 53 min: Kante diddles into some space down the right. He loops across the face of goal. Alonso, bombing in from the right, creams a low volleyed drive towards the bottom left. Celik does extremely well to block. That was heading in, and at some pace to boot. 52 min: Lille are winning the majority of the 50-50s in midfield right now. The home crowd are a little on-edge as a result. 51 min: Kovacic looks to have tweaked something. He’s replaced by Loftus-Cheek. 49 min: Bamba twists and turns down the left and somehow whips across to the far stick, despite Azpilicueta sticking to him like glue. The ball drops to Sanches, who tries to cream a volley from an extremely tight angle. Nope! Goal kick. 47 min: Lille go up the other end, probing down the left through David. Nothing doing. Chelsea come straight back at the visitors, Azpilicueta whooshing a low shot-cum-cross into the arms of Leo Jardim from a tight position on the right. A sense that both teams have been given the old half-time hairdryer. 46 min: Pulisic romps down the middle and prepares to shoot. He’s brazenly nudged in the back by Andre. No free kick, though, because the ball breaks right to Ziyech, who has a shooting opportunity in the box. His attempt to find the bottom left is blocked by Botman. Chelsea get the second half underway. No half-time changes. “There aren’t many footballing stories more heartening than Renato Sanches’ revival at Lille,” writes Kári Tulinius. “Having seen him lost at Swansea, passing to the advertising hoardings and all that, it’s wonderful that he reached safe harbour.” Half-time entertainment. A big game tomorrow night between Atletico Madrid and Manchester United. Which Atleti will turn up? Which United? Sid Lowe previews an unpredictable but mouthwatering tie. HALF TIME: Chelsea 1-0 Lille Chelsea started fast, getting their reward through Havertz, but the French side have since worked their way into the match. Fascinating second half coming right up! 45 min: Chelsea have the ball in the net, but it’s disallowed. Ziyech dances his way along the byline, to the right of goal, beating Sanches and cutting back for Havertz, who artfully backflicks into the net. But Ziyech had run the ball out for a goal kick. Up goes the flag. 45 min: Chelsea have the ball in the net, but it’s disallowed. Ziyech dances his way along the byline, to the right of goal, beating Sanches and cutting back for Havertz, who artfully backflicks into the net. But Ziyech had run the ball out for a goal kick. Up goes the flag. 43 min: Happy to report that Tuchel has a fresh stick of gum, and is enjoying it right now. 41 min: Bamba scampers away from Alonso down the right. He looks to find David in the middle, but his cross is deflected by the ever-alert Silva into the hands of Mendy. For a second, Chelsea looked open and vulnerable. Silva accordingly gives Alonso the what-for. 40 min: Sanches bustles in from the left and goes for the top-right corner from distance. He doesn’t get enough curl on his shot and the ball sails harmlessly into the Matthew Harding Stand. 39 min: See 37 min. Since the goal, Chelsea haven’t worked Leo Jardim much, either.