Porto vs Chelsea team news: Eden Hazard, Matic and John Terry start on the bench

Left out: No place for Hazard or Matic in Blues line-up
Vaishali Bhardwaj29 September 2015

Jose Mourinho has dropped under-performing Chelsea star Eden Hazard along with Nemanja Matic for the club's Champions League clash with Porto on Tuesday night.

The Portuguese tactician has decided to omit the Belgian - who won the PFA Player of the Year award last season - from his starting line-up and instead opted to play Ramires and Willian for the Group G match at the Estadio do Dragao following the pair's goals against Newcastle at the weekend - which salvaged a 2-2 draw for the Blues.

Mourinho has also decided to leave Matic on the bench, with John Obi Mikel taking his place in front of the back line, while captain John Terry has once again been left out of the starting line-up in favour of the centre-back pairing of Kurt Zouma and Gary Cahill.

With Terry missing, Branislav Ivanovic will skipper the side while Diego Costa leads the line for Chelsea despite the striker having missed the Premier League champions' last two games as he serves a three-match retrospective ban for violent conduct.

Chelsea starting XI: Begovic; Ivanovic, Zouma, Cahill, Azpilicueta; Mikel, Fabregas; Ramires, Willian, Pedro; Diego Costa.

Substitutes: Blackman, Baba Rahman, Terry, Matic, Loftus-Cheek, Hazard, Kenedy

Porto starting XI: Casillas, Maxi, Maicon, Marcano, Martins Indi, Danilo, Rúben Neves, Imbula, Brahimi, Aboubakar, Andre.

Substitutes: Helton, Layun, Osvaldo, Tello, Evandro, Corona, Bueno.

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