Watch PSG vs Chelsea live striming as the Paris side host the Blues looking to inflict first defeat to Guus Hiddink in his 2nd spell as Chelsea boss on Feb 16, 2016.
Still unbeaten in his second stint as Chelsea boss, Guus Hiddink will face the toughest spell of his tenure so far on his trip across the English Channel on Tuesday.
The Dutchman has certainly stopped the rot at the club, overseeing 11 of their ongoing 12-game unbeaten streak, 10 of which have come in a league-leading run in the Premier League.
Draws have been more frequent than victories in that time, however, which has prevented Chelsea from making serious ground in the top flight, and they visit the runaway Ligue 1 leaders still in the bottom half of the table.
There must be some envious glances between capital cities when the Blues see how easily PSG are defending their title while Chelsea have been struggling so much to reach the heights of last term.
If reports are to be believed, some of those glances come from Chelsea players, with the likes of Diego Costa and Eden Hazard having been linked with moves to the Parc des Princes this season.
Coupled with the recent history between these two sides, which includes a controversial red card for Zlatan Ibrahimovic last season and a subsequent extra-time winner at Stamford Bridge in the second leg, it makes this meeting more of a rivalry than we are used to seeing in Europe’s premier competition.
The hosts certainly start as favourites, but Chelsea will be keen to show that the difference between the two sides is not as great as the respective league tables suggest.
It was the Champions League that offered Chelsea much relief from their domestic struggles under Jose Mourinho this season as they finished top of Group G, and while Hiddink can’t quite match his predecessor’s record in this competition, he did help the Londoners to within a whisker of the final in 2008-09, only to be denied at the last by Andres Iniesta of Barcelona.
Hiddink can boast an unbeaten record with Chelsea in the Champions League, though, and at the weekend he watched his side put in arguably their best performance of his second stint so far, beating Newcastle United 5-1 in the end having raced into a three-goal lead inside the opening 20 minutes.
It was his first league win at Stamford Bridge since returning to the club, and away from home he has picked up as many victories in five games as Mourinho managed in his first 14 outings on the road this season.
They have won just three of their last 11 away games in this competition, though, and their only success in the group stages came against whipping boys Maccabi Tel Aviv.
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