The Blues face an eight-hour flight for the 3,700-mile (6,000km) journey to Almaty, where they will play Astana because of renovations to their home stadium in the Kazakhstan capital 600 miles away.

LIVE!Chelsea must quickly adapt to unusual circumstances as they take on Astana in the Conference League this afternoon. The Blues have made the eight-hour flight to Kazakhstan and will play in temperatures that are expected to drop below minus-ten degrees,