Two American stars in the making have found their way to Champions League-qualifying teams. Tim Weah, who’s already had stops at PSG and Celtic, is officially with Lille now, though he’s only made two appearances with the first team in Ligue 1 so far. Christian Pulisic, in one of the most-watched moves involving an American player in years, moved from Dortmund to Chelsea over the summer. He’s made four appearances in Premier League matches so far but has been missing from the lineup in recent matches, causing all sorts of alarm bells to go off for American soccer fans gauging his progress. The Americans provide just one storyline for this Champions League tilt happening Wednesday.
Here’s everything you need to know to live stream Chelsea vs. Lille, including what to watch for on the pitch.
Chelsea vs. Lille
- When: 3pm ET, Wednesday, Oct. 2
- Where: Stade Pierre-Mauroy in Lille, France
- Streaming: B/R Live, Fubo
Chelsea vs. Lille live stream: How to watch Champions League matches
The match is on B/R Live and Fubo, with both streaming services providing an easy way to stream Champions League matches.
1) FuboTV
- Cost: $44.99 for your first month and $54.99 per month thereafter
- FuboTV devices: Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire, Android TV, iOS and Android devices
- Local channels: ABC, Fox, NBC, CBS, the CW (in some markets) (check local availability here)
FuboTV is a solid TV streaming service option, whether your tastes run to entertainment (AMC, Syfy, FX), news (MSNBC, CNN), or sports (NBA TV, NFL Network). If you’re a soccer fan, however, it will appear tailor-made for you, with all Champions League matches (via the TNT and TUDN family of channels), NBC and NBCSN, 10 beIN SPORTS channels, FS1 and FS2. If you can’t watch a match live, FuboTV offers a three-day replay for each match and 30 hours of cloud DVR. (Check out the complete FuboTV channels list.)
FuboTV also has bilingual families in mind; each subscription comes with UniMás, Galavisión, NBC Universo, beIN SPORTS, Univision, and Fox Deportes. An extra $7.99 per month will bring you Latino Plus, which includes CNN en Español and TyC Sports among its offerings.
2) B/R Live
- Cost: $9.99 per month or $79.99 for 12 months
- Devices: Amazon Fire Stick and Fire TV, Apple TV, Android TV, Roku players and TV, and iOS and Android devices
B/R Live is a subscription service that is essential for soccer fans, as it carries all matches for the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League. It also offers an array of other sports, including the National Lacrosse League, All Elite Wrestling, ONE Championship, and the World Armwrestling League. It also carries top sports talk, including The Dan Patrick Show and The Rich Eisen Show.
Chelsea vs. Lille: What to watch for
Chelsea is not quite where it wants to be in Premier League play right now. After seven weeks, the team’s up to sixth place—though that is a considerable jump from 11th, where Chelsea sat before this past weekend’s 2-0 victory over Brighton. There are talented young players in the squad, including a pair of players in Tammy Abraham and Mason Mount who could be instrumental on future World Cup squads. But it’s also a team that may be in transition this season as it learns Frank Lampard’s system. Its 1-0 loss to Valencia in the Champions League opener wasn’t an ideal start, but a result against Lille will help fill up the progress bar.
Lille is fourth in Ligue 1, gripped in the usual battle with PSG for French domestic supremacy. Other than Weah, names you might recognize on the current Lille squad include veteran French striker Loic Remy, who spend part of his career at Chelsea, and Portuguese winger Renato Sanches, who had a stint at Bayern Munich not so long ago. But given Lille was blanked 3-0 by Ajax in its Champions League opener, it’ll need to find goals from at least one of its players if it wants to stay in contention for the knockout rounds.
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