Valencia boss Unai Emery has revealed how Chelsea's Barclays Premier League defeat at Manchester United had helped him plot their downfall in their Champions League clash.

Valencia will try to become the second team to beat the Blues this season when the sides meet at the Mestalla.

Emery has been studying how United went about doing just that at Old Trafford nine days ago and believes he can mastermind another early setback in the Chelsea career of good friend and fellow thirtysomething Andre Villas-Boas.

"Yes, that game could be used as a reference,'' said Emery, who watched United beat Chelsea 3-1 despite having half as many attempts on goal.

"Obviously, we play very different football from Manchester United.

"Chelsea make very few mistakes and we have to take our own chances.''

He added: "Chelsea have a very specific way to attack and a very specific way to defend.

"They're a very physical team, they're very offensive, very aggressive, they're very experienced and strong.

"We know how difficult it's going to be but we have to keep believing in ourselves and play our football.''

Emery was in relaxed mood about the prospect of taking on the team he described as group favourites, even answering a phone call during his press conference and joking: "It was Villas-Boas!

"We have to make a deal so Chelsea and Valencia can go through to the next round.''

But the 39-year-old proved he was taking the match very seriously indeed when he refused to reveal his injury news, saying: "It`s a surprise.''

Chelsea and Valencia are favourites to progress from Group E but while the former started their campaign with a 2-0 win over Bayer Leverkusen, the latter could only manage a goalless draw at Genk.

Emery said: "[Wednesday] is a very important game and we have to win it.

"We know how difficult it's going to be because Chelsea are the favourites for the group.

"But if we keep on playing our football and playing our best, we can win this game, especially at home and with the support of the fans.''

Valencia have already proved capable of causing an upset this season by coming within minutes of beating Barcelona in La Liga, but they come into the game on the back of a defeat at Sevilla.

"After the game against Barcelona, everybody was saying how great this team was,'' Emery said.

"When you play a good game, you're the best team in the world.

"A bad game and you're in crisis.''

The same could be said of Chelsea striker Fernando Torres, who is expected to start after the latest turbulent week of his topsy-turvy Stamford Bridge career.

"We have to be extremely careful with him,'' said Emery, who shrugged off the prospect of the returning Juan Mata coming back to haunt his side barely a month after joining Chelsea for £23.5million.

"I'm not really going to be thinking about Mata because Chelsea have a lot of important players.

"We're really capable of winning this game and we hope we enjoy it.

"I'm not going to be especially concerned about Mata.''

Mata and his Chelsea team-mates have hardly had the ideal build-up to the game after being forced to change planes for their flight to Valencia, leading to a three-hour delay.

Villas-Boas will not care a jot provided they win tomorrow night and take a big step towards the Champions League knockout stage.

But Villas-Boas was taking nothing for granted against Emery's team .

He said: "I don't like being favourite in any games because that only implies big surprises in the end.

"The game will be extremely difficult because I know how difficult Valencia are.

"I'm very impressed by the way Valencia play football and the way Unai motivates his players.

"I hope that one day he can come to England and manage a team in the Premier League.''

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Drogba is yet to exhaust what he has in his arsenal,today is another day to reckon with his goal scoring mania,

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all eyes on toress

Confirmed 3points already for Chelsea. Commonnnnnnnn you bluesss!!!!!

2 - 2

^^^

you r drunk


1 - 0 , Anelka

This one is delicately poised!

allboyz:

2 - 2

Was just thinking about it.

If not 2-2, possbly 1-1

Mata to score.

Poor first touch by Torres. Shoulda scored

Torress. olodo. should have done better. poor first touch there. poo.

See that pass from Ramires to Mikel right now. So inaccurate he forced Mikel to play the ball back and take all momentum out of the move.

you saw that too?

The match has started but Valencia looks vulnerable,

Torres is disgusting

Ramires tried there.

LAmps!!!

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Can some1 ask the F-U-C-K-E-R called bosingwa to stop passin balls to the opponent?

Bosingwa again!!! Mscheeeeeew

Mikel,what a nice ball.

Bosingwa can't defend to save is life. Pls,can Ivanovic come in bf dis madt man cause us this game?

Mikel + Lampard + Ramires = Lack of creativity.

Lampard looks lost.

Can mereiles come in? I beg we nid to push forward joor. Lampard for me and Bosingwa shud leave dis game. Need anelka and ivanovic.

Lampard aint lost. If this is the way he's been playing then lemme inform you, this is his normal game.

Our right side is worrying me. Mata's opposing left back is killing him creating an overlap on Bosingwa. Valencia have created 3 openings now down that side.

Ramires is his usual self.

All in all, standard away performance.

Walahi Bosingwa is a shitty Defender.

AVB needs to go 4-4-2.

Remove Lamps or Mikel and bring on Drogba or Anelka.

The wing backs (Left/Right back) need to start pushing on and linking up with the wingers to supply crosses to the strikers.

Thats how this game can be won - or its looking like a 0-0 draw.

^You keep calling Bosingwas name. True Bosingwa is generally poor at defending but why are you missing the obvious - Mata letting players go creating 2 on 1 on Bosingwa?

Ramires aint the kost skillful but he reminds me of Steve Mcmanaman - He will run for ever without slowing down.

He covers a lot of ground and is now starting to score goals.

Sun of god:

Ramires aint the kost skillful[b] but he reminds me of Steve Mcmanaman[/b] - He will run for ever without slowing down.

He covers a lot of ground and is now starting to score goals.

I beg to differ. The SM I know is NOT like Ramirez.

Please what's the count on passes by Ramires?

FBS, How many you done count so far?

Seems everybody is here to tap soccer except Ramires.