Stamford Bridge hosting Shakhtar’s Champions League matches, starting tonight

Chelsea and Shakhtar Donetsk struck a deal earlier this year to stage the latter's Champions League matches at Stamford Bridge this season, giving the nomadic team from the war-torn region (since 2014) in Ukraine a proper European home, at least temporarily. It's an especially appropriate arrangement given Chelsea's former ties to Roman Abramovich. The first of (at least) four games that Shakhtar will play at the Bridge is tonight, as they take on Greek Super League champions AEK Athens.
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