Paris St Germain 3-1 Chelsea

Chelsea continued their run of poor away form with defeat at the Parc des Princes.

A 3-1 humbling, during which they looked well below form, will see them having to work miracles at Stamford Bridge in eight days time.

Jose Mourinho opted to play without a recognised striker – following the weekend's abject performance by Fernando Torres, and news of the lingering injury to Samuel Eto'o.

Chelsea, therefore played Andre Schurrle – scorer of a hat trick at Craven Cottage – as a makeshift centre forward.

Blues suffered a disastrous start.

Inside the first three minutes, early pressure from their hosts caught out John Terry – with his second aerial error in four days.

Heading back to the unmarked Ezequiel Lazezzi, the ball was first chested down, then volleyed home.

Things started to look sticky for Blues – behind, and without a centre forward. But they stuck in there.

26 minutes down, and Chelsea had what looked to be their breakthrough.

Oscar was scythed down by Thiago Silva, pretty needlessly and referee Milorad Maziz pointed to the spot.

Eden Hazard stepped up, and slotted away the penalty.

Towards the end of the half, Edinson Cavani hit the deck in the box under what looked like an ounce of pressure. But there was no way the referee was giving what was clearly not a penalty.

A quarter hour an hour into the second half and, Schurrle having done little at centre forward, Jose Mournho opted to make a change.

In switching the German for Fernando Torres, it was difficult to tell if the Blues boss was going for a second or trying to defend the draw.

Moments later, the option was taken out of his hands – as Petr Cech first flapped, and David Luiz then tumbled a Lavezzi free kick across the face of goal into his own net.

With seven minutes left of the 90, Cavani could have made it three – but having done all the hard work in turning in the box, he sent his snap shot wide.

Chelsea looked to be relatively happy taking the away goal back to Stamford Bridge, until the very last – when dozing defence again struck them.

Javier Pastore took the ball from the corner, dances around the defence, and slid it past Cech.

A 3-1 deficit will be tough to turn over next week at Stamford Bridge. Blues will take only minor comfort at this stage from the fact they have done it before against Cavani and Lavezzi.