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Chelsea's Radamel Falcao to miss Champions League visit of Maccabi Tel Aviv

Chelsea will be without Colombian striker Radamel Falcao for their opening Champions League Group G fixture against Maccabi Tel Aviv on Wednesday.

By Pascal Lemesre, Football League Editor | 15 September 2015

Chelsea striker Radamel Falcao has been ruled out of the Blues' opening Champions League match of the season with a minor knock.

The Colombian striker will sit out tomorrow's visit of Maccabi Tel Aviv in Group G, but is expected to miss just one game and should return against Arsenal in the Premier League Saturday lunchtime.

One boost for under-pressure Jose Mourinho is the return of Brazilian playmaker Oscar, who hasn't played since the opening day of the season over a month ago because of a knee injury.

Defending Premier League champions Chelsea are yet to win at home this season and have won just one of their five Premier League matches to lie 17th in the table, 11 points behind red-hot Manchester City.

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C	Manchester City Man City	38	28	7	3	96	34	62	91
2	Arsenal	38	28	5	5	91	29	62	89
3	Liverpool	38	24	10	4	86	41	45	82
4	Aston Villa	38	20	8	10	76	61	15	68
5	Tottenham Hotspur Spurs	38	20	6	12	74	61	13	66
6	Chelsea	38	18	9	11	77	63	14	63
7	Newcastle United Newcastle	38	18	6	14	85	62	23	60
8	Manchester United Man Utd	38	18	6	14	57	58	-1	60
9	West Ham United West Ham	38	14	10	14	60	74	-14	52
10	Crystal Palace	38	13	10	15	57	58	-1	49
11	Brighton & Hove Albion Brighton	38	12	12	14	55	62	-7	48
12	Bournemouth	38	13	9	16	54	67	-13	48
13	Fulham	38	13	8	17	55	61	-6	47
14	Wolverhampton Wanderers Wolves	38	13	7	18	50	65	-15	46
15	Everton	38	13	9	16	40	51	-11	40
16	Brentford	38	10	9	19	56	65	-9	39
17	Nottingham Forest Nott'm Forest	38	9	9	20	49	67	-18	32
R	Luton Town Luton	38	6	8	24	52	85	-33	26
R	Burnley	38	5	9	24	41	78	-37	24
R	Sheffield United Sheff Utd	38	3	7	28	35	104	-69	16