Alistair Wiseman: I have said for years Giroud is one of the most under rated forwards of the last few years. Reliable, surprisingly skillful but also a wonderful focal man who can hold, distribute, assist and score. Easily as good if not better than Kane.

Arsenal manager Unai Emery is the joint most successful manager in Uefa Cup/Europa League history.

He won it three times in a roe with Sevilla, between 2014 and 2016, matching former Inter Milan and Juventus boss Giovanni Trapattoni (1977, 1991, 1993).

"We are very demanding of ourselves," Emery said.

"For us, it's one positive issue because we want to play big matches, tough matches against the best teams - and in the Europa League we are finding some results like the last round against Bate Borisov with difficulty.

"I want to play matches that are difficult, with difficult results or with difficult players."

Rennes manager Julien Stephan is surprised Arsenal striker Alexandre Lacazette is allowed to play tonight.

The Frenchman was due to complete a three-game European ban tonight for his red card against Bate Borisov in the last round. But Uefa upheld an appeal 48 hours before the game, reducing the sanction to two matches.

"The timing is rather surprising for everyone involved," said Stephan.

"We didn't think he would be included up until Tuesday evening."

Stephan has also noted that the hosts of the legs were switched. Arsenal should have been at home last week but they could not be at home on the same day as Chelsea.

"The first thing that was a bit strange was changing the first and second leg," said Stephen.

"This is now the second thing that has happened that changes. Hopefully, there will not be any more surprises and the referee will be great."

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Maurizio Sarri derby in the final? Napoli lost 3-1 at Red Bull Salzburg tonight, but still went through 4-3 on aggregate.

Unai Emery makes just two changes to the Arsenal side who beat Manchester United 2-0 at the weekend.

Henrikh Mkhitaryan has to settle for a place on the bench but Alexandre Lacazette is in the starting line-up after his ban was reduced to two matches.

In comes keeper Petr Cech for Bernd Leno and Shkodran Mustafi replaces Sokratis. Lucas Torreira, who started the defeat at Rennes, is on the bench.

Arsenal XI: Cech, Mustafi, Koscielny, Monreal, Maitland-Niles, Kolasinac, Xhaka, Ramsey, Ozil, Lacazette, Aubameyang

There are two changes to the Rennes side who beat Arsenal 3-1 in the first leg.

Mehdi Zeffane and Adrien Hunou drop to the bench, while M'Baye Niang and Hamari Traore come into the team.

Goalscorers Ismaila Sarr and Benjamin Bourigeaud are also in the starting XI.

Rennes XI: Koubek, da Silva, Mexer, Sarr, Grenier, Niang, Bourigeaud, Bensebaini, Ben Arfa, Andre, Traore

We'll bring you reaction to the Chelsea game but best start looking at tonight's other games - which start in 10 minutes.

Olivier Giroud has walked off with the match ball in his hands.

A lady in the crowd waves a 'Chelsea Ukraine supporters club' scarf. Wonder if that existed before Andriy Shevchenko joined them.

Think Valencia have just scored judging by their tweet? Goncalo Guedes bags an equaliser in the third minute of stoppage time.

That means they are now going through! So much drama in Russia!

There's been drama elsewhere though...

It's all over. Chelsea are into the quarter-finals. Impressive.

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Callum Hudson-Odoi speeds down the left, he should spot Pedro in the centre but instead pulls it back to Olivier Giroud, who fires over,

Tim Verhaert: Before any Arsenal fans trying to claim Chelsea had the easier tie. This Kiev has beaten Rennes 3-1 and 2-1 in the group stage this season.

Aamer Iqbal: Are English club sides really this good at the moment or is it a case of too many poor European teams? I would like to think it is our sides being top draw.

Two minutes added on.

Corner to Chelsea, Callum Hudson-Odoi takes. But it's past everyone in the centre. Seconds left.

Magomed Suleymanov has just scored what could be an 85th-minute winner for FK Krasnodar to send them through to the quarter-finals at Valencia's expense, thanks to the away goal advantage!

The furthest they have reached is the last 32 prior to this season's competition. It's only their third ever campaign in the Europa League.

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Oleksandr Andrievsky comes on for Volodymyr Shepelev.

According to Wikipedia, Alexander Andrijevsky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Леони́дович Андрие́вский; born August 10, 1968, in Minsk, Soviet Union) is a former Belarusian professional ice hockeyplayer who played one game in the National Hockey League for the Chicago Blackhawks. He is currently the head coach to Admiral Vladivostok of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).

Starting to think maybe this is a different guy.

Not much happening now. Have a feeling Dynamo are going to fall nine goals short of a comeback here.

James A Young: Seems like Chelsea is banking on winning the Europa League versus a top four finish. Solid performance tonight. Defeat to Everton on Sunday is almost assured now.

Eddie: I would have given Leno the nod tonight.

Ranav: Chelsea better without Jorghino.

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Hundreds of Dynamo Kiev fans with their tops off. It's 3C.

Yevhen Smyrnyi is on for Sidcley for Kiev. I'm not going to give you any tactical insights about that change.