Chelsea v Shakhtar Donetsk - live! Chelsea 1-1 Shakhtar (Willian 10) Fernandinho picks up the ball on the edge of the final third, gallops past Bertrand and Luiz and pulls the ball back across the face of goal. From about 10 yards out, the unmarked Willian rifles the ball past Petr Cech and into the bottom right-hand corner. 8 min: Torres picks up the ball just inside the Shakhtar half, rides a challenge and continues cantering down the inside right channel. With Ramires in a good position and screaming for the ball, he shoots tamely and allows Pyatov to save. Chelsea 1-0 Shaktar Donetsk (Torres 7) Chelsea get a lucky break, going ahead when Fernando Torres chases down a backpass from defender to goalkeeper. Pyatov's attempt to hoof the ball clear cannons off the striker from point-blank range and ends up in the net. Chelsea lead. 4 min: Chelsea win a free-kick about 35 yards from the Shakhtar goal, dead centre. Shakhtar form a three-man defensive wall, David Luiz shoots right and wide of it. With the ball curling towards the left upright, Shakhtar goalkeeper Andriy Pyatov makes heavy weather of what should have been a straightforward save. 3 min: Shakhtar centre-half Yaroslav Rakitskiy tries his luck with the free-kick. His left-footed drive from distance bounces twice in front of Petr Cech, but doesn't trouble the Chelsea goalkeeper. 2 min: Nothing comes from the corner and Chelsea clear. The ball's returned and David Luiz concedes a free-kick about 40 yards from his own goal for a foul on Adriano. 1 min: Adriano and Henrikh Mkhitaryan get proceedings under way. The ball's moved forward and David Luiz immediately concedes a throw-in with a wayward pass. Moments later, a sloppy pass by Ryan Bertrand gifts Shakhtar the first corner of the game. A nervy start from Chelsea. Shirt correction and clarification: Having seen them shed their tracksuit tops, I can reveal that Shakhtar's players are wearing orange shirts with black stripes, with fetching, skintight orange turtlenecks underneath. Not long now: Led by the officials, the teams march out on to the Stamford Bridge sward, with Chelsea's players kitted out in their usual home strip and Shakhtar's wearing black shirts with orange trim (I think; they're wearing tracksuit tops at the moment), black shorts and orange socks. An email: "Just wondering what misdemeanour you've committed at Guardian Towers to be forced to front this MBM," writes Rob Hobson. That sneering dislike of Chelsea's starting to border on the pathological. Run over someone's cat? That's an interesting one. As lovable an outfit as they are, my feelings for Chelsea are more ones of complete indifference than anything else and there isn't a hint of dislike, sneering or otherwise, to be seen anywhere in this report. I'm not sure who assigned tonight's minute-by-minute reports, but given the choice, this would have been my pick of the three. The recent match between these two sides (yes Rob, there are two sides playing) was a belter and hopefully we'll get more of the same tonight. Roberto di Matteo speaks: "We need everybody to be on top of their game tonight," he says of his decision to omit Terry from his starting XI. The players who are playing are internationals so I'm not gambling. John Terry is an important player for us and will continue to be important for us. We need to have a good balance - when we're attacking, we need to be aware of Shaktar's threat and not let them counter-attack. On Sky Sports: Studio pundit Ray Wilkins says that he'd have picked John Terry, even if he was only half-fit, because he sees a lack of leadership in the Chelsea ranks. Football Weekly goes big in Norway: Listeners to the Guardian football podcast might be as amused as I was by this spookily accurate imagining of what goes on in our studio by the good folk at Sleivdal. John Terry latest: The word coming out of Stamford Bridge is that Terry hasn't been picked because he's not match fit, having played so little in recent weeks on account of what that elderly farmer in Father Ted might describe as "the old racism." Chelsea (4-2-3-1): 1-Petr Cech, 2-Branislav Ivanovic, 4-David Luiz, 24-Gary Cahill, 34-Ryan Bertrand; 7-Ramires, 12-John Obi Mikel; 10-Juan Mata, 11-Oscar, 17-Eden Hazard; 9-Fernando Torres Subs: Turnbull, Romeu, Moses, Marin, Sturridge, Terry, Azpilicueta. Shakhtar Donetsk (4-2-3-1): 30-Andriy Pyatov; 33-Darijo Srna, 5-Olexandr Kucher, 44-Yaroslav Rakytskiy, 26-Razvan Rat; 7-Fernandinho, 3-Tomas Hubschman; 22-Henrik Mkhitaryan, 10-Willian, 29-Alex Teixeira, 9-Luiz Adriano Subs: Kanibolotskiy, Stepanenko, Eduardo, Shevchuk, Douglas Costa, Chygrynskiy, Ilsinho. Referee: Carlos Velasco Carballo (Spain) Team news we've pulled from the wires: John Terry starts on the bench as Roberto Di Matteo gambles Chelsea's Champions League future on David Luiz and Gary Cahill. The Italian resists the urge to recall his captain after the defender completed his racism ban, but drafted in the fit-again Luiz and Juan Mata, with Ryan Bertrand replacing the injured Ashley Cole. Group E leaders Shakhtar name the same eleven which dominated Chelsea in the reverse fixture two weeks earlier. A bit about Shakhtar: Earlier this week, Jonathan Wilson wrote a nice piece on the exceptional season being enjoyed Chelsea's opponents, but suggested the ease with which they're cantering away with their domestic championship could cost them in the Champions League. I should probably add that if you like the cut of those 1,130 pearls of wisdom, you can buy a copy of Mr Wilson's latest book, The Outsider: A History of the Goalkeeper. And even if you didn't like them, buy a copy anyway, because he would rather you purchased a copy and didn't read it than borrowed one from somebody else and did. Preamble: Having had their derrieres handed to them in a match that barely reflected Shakhtar's dominance in the Donbass Arena a fortnight ago, Chelsea are in need of a win tonight. With Juventus entertaining Group E minnows Nordsjaelland in Turin, dropped points could leave Chelsea in all sorts of bother; potentially two points off the pace in third place with just two matches, at home to the Danish champions and away to the Italians, to play. "I think there are some comparisons to last season, when we had must-win games," said Roberto Di Matteo in his press conference yesterday. Fortunately we have players that have experience and have been there before. I think we need to play a perfect game to be able to win against Shakhtar because they are a good side. But we are strong at home - we've shown that over many, many years and I think we'll be fired up for this game. With his side having notched up their 18th win out of 19 matches played this season (their only 'blemish' was a 1-1 draw against Juventus in Turin), Shakhtar coach Mircea Lucescu is understandably upbeat ahead of tonight's game. We have prepared well. We are in good form too. Our players are also thinking of this game as a very important match for us - for the three points, for remaining at this level. It's not every year you can play against teams like Juventus or Chelsea. I prepare my players knowing very well that absolutely all teams can be beaten - even Chelsea at home.