Chelsea will line up in the new white addidas away kit that was launched earlier this summer for the first time today as they face the very best Malaysian football has to offer in form of the Malaysia XI. The whole of Malaysia is abuzz with the arrival of the Blues in the Southeast Asian country for this preseason match. The match will take place at the Shah Alam Stadium in Kuala Lumpur, capital of Malaysia and the kickoff time is 9.45pm Malaysian time / 2.45pm (UTC + 1). The Europa League champions' match against the Malaysians takes place four days after the lads secured a 1-0 victory over the Singha XI in Thailand in what was the first of three engagements in their preseason tour of Southeast Asia.

Today's fixture against the Malaysian All-stars won't be the first time that Chelsea would be playing such a match in Malaysia. It is a replay of an earlier end-of-season match in 2011 which Chelsea won courtesy of a lone goal by club icon, Didier Drogba. They were known then as the Keputusan Malaysia and played with the Blues in front of a capacity crowd of 85,000.

Today's match also provides the opportunity for Chelsea fans all over the world to see how far Jose Mourinho has gone with the rejuvenation of the squad. Malaysia XI vs Chelsea will be televised live all over the Middle East (Al Jazeera), North America (GolTV), Southeast Asia (Kompas TV, etc), Brazil, England, France (BeIN Sport 2), Portugal, Romania, Russia, Bulgaria, India, China, Africa (Supersports) and in many other countries.

The starting eleven for Chelsea features very few changes from the side that faced the Thailand Eleven on Wednesday. Josh McEachran will likely play in place of Frank Lampard who sustained a minor knock in training.

These are some of the Chelsea fans in Malaysia cheering the Blues in training as they prepare for this evening's (Malaysian time) clash with the Malaysia Eleven.

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Live match text would be provided by me plus the full team list

The match is by 2:45pm Nigerian time and 9:45pm Malaysian time

CHELSEA XI: Schwarzer, Ivanovic, Chalobah, Terry, Bertrand, Essien,
Marco van Ginkel, Traore, De Bruyne, Hazard, Lukaku.

Yea,very good!!!

kickoff!

goal to Chelsea by youngster Traore in the 5th minute

Good start by the Blues. Traore is a Chelsea academy graduate from West African country Burkina Faso and he is just 17 years old. This is the first time I'm hearing of him

Chelsea has been dominant for the past 28 minutes or so. Hazard and Lukaku are on top of their game. Terry is marshaling d defence well.

Kevin De Bruyne makes it 2. A wonderful shot into the roof of the net after being laid off by Lukaku

Bad news for Chelsea. De Bruyne gets injured immediately after scoring that amazing goal. Bad news for Chelsea. De Bruyne gets injured immediately after scoring that amazing goal.

The Malaysians are now pressing Chelsea looking 4 a way to get back into the game and avoid a thrashing.

Lukaku makes it 3

Yep

The players enter the tunnel for the half-time break. Chelsea lead 3-0 courtesy of goals from Bertrand Traore, Kevin De Bruyne and Lukaku. De Bruyne is out of the game though as he got injured immediately after scoring that goal. He was replaced by Islam Feruz (lol, funny name)

3 outstanding players so far: lukaku, de bruyne and schwarzer. Hazard is also trying. Exciting match.

If he continues like this Lukaku is another Drogba in the making. The Malaysians just can't handle him right now.

2nd half

The Blues are now playing from right to left

CHELSEA 2nd half XI: Cech, Wallace,
Kalas, Cahill, Cole, Ramires, Van Ginkel, Moses, Hazard, Schurrle, Ba.

datChelseaBoy: 3 outstanding players so far: lukaku, de bruyne and schwarzer. Hazard is also trying. Exciting match.

Remember Traore scored one and made one

Andre Uweh:
Remember Traore scored one and made one

He's doing gr8 too. Thanks 4 that

Hazard, schurrle, ba and moses have all threatened in this half

They wont put this thread on frontpage so people can be aware that a match is going on but if its wizkid vs david's girlfriend, they'll blind our eyes with it.

Please is Moses playing or haff the special one sold him loaned him

Hazard misdirects his header following a cross from Moses

Nomski0: They wont put this thread on frontpage so people can be aware that a match is going on but if its wizkid vs david's girlfriend, they'll blind our eyes with it.

Please is Moses playing or haff the special one sold him loaned him

Moses is playing now, but he wasn't involved in the 1st half. And don't be too harsh on him na. Lol

Maybe dat's because it's a preseason match. I don't knw 4 diz mods sef

The second half is quieter than the first half. A Malaysian player just made a laughable attempt to win a foul. Lol

The difference is clear. The Malaysians have been totally outclassed

The tempo of the match has slowed and the humidity is not helping matters. Most of the players must be tired by now

We are into added time

Sorry 4 d late update. I got caught up in d crazy last 5 minutes or so of the match

Moses added a fourth for Chelsea following a deflection, but any good keeper would not have allowed that goal, then a Malaysian player erased Chelsea's clean sheet right after that by nodding into the net after Petr Cech cleared the ball from a free kick to the opponents

Goal Scorers for Chelsea: Bertrand Traore (6), Kevin De Bruyne (29), Lukaku (45+), Moses (88)

Shas scored the consolation goal for Malaysian XI