CHELSEA 3 PARIS ST-GERMAIN O

Palmer 22, 30, Joao Pedro 43

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CHELSEA a message loud and clear that Chelsea - under joint owners Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali - are back on football's biggest stage.

Dismissed as a laughing stock and billion pound bottle jobs not so long ago, this felt like a performance of defiance and determination with two fingers up towards their critics.

Come on, nobody saw this coming. Apart from maybe Chelsea as all their pre-match talk had been about being underdogs, nobody giving them a chance and they invoked that siege mentality to perfection.