Lauren James goes to shoot with her right foot before dragging the ball back onto her left, but her powerful strike is straight at the goalkeeper.

The defender was beaten all ends up there.

Emma Sanders
BBC Sport women’s football news reporter at Plough Lane

Alyssa Thompson has been an absolute nightmare for Roma's left-hand side.

She's constantly beating the full-back and putting dangerous crosses into the box.

Every time she has the ball, you can hear the Chelsea fans get excited.

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Sandy Baltimore finds Lauren James in space on the left of the penalty area. The England forward cuts inside onto her right foot and unleashes a curling strike, but it's too high and flies over the bar.

Chelsea are dominating.

Bayern Munich and Real Madrid's game has also just kicked off.

A moment's silence was held before kick-off as a mark of respect after at least 68 people were killed in a train crash near Madrid earlier today.

The Real Madrid players are also wearing black armbands.

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Sue Smith
Former Leeds and England forward on Disney+

We said how key Chelsea's wide players are you've just seen there from Thompson.

She's just so athletic, she's got that real chance of pace but then she's got the end product at the end of it.

Emma Sanders
BBC Sport women’s football news reporter at Plough Lane

As expected, Chelsea are dominating the ball early on and are looking to draw Roma out. The Italian side have not settled yet.

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Chelsea almost go in front!

Alyssa Thompson drives into the penalty area and sees her shot palmed up into the air by Roma goalkeeper Rachele Baldi, but the ball drops down onto the crossbar and back into play before Roma manager to clear.

Roma defender Elisabetta Oliviero has an issue after making a tackle, so the physios come on.

The Italian side already have a few players missing through niggles, so will be hoping this is nothing too serious.

Aggie Beever-Jones tries her luck from distance, but her effort is straight at Roma goalkeeper Rachele Baldi.

Sue Smith
Former Leeds and England forward on Disney+

You look at it and think Chelsea are clear favourites coming into it. They're at home, they've had a really positive start to the season but Roma will look to be very well-organised off the ball, they'll look to hit Chelsea on the counter-attack, maybe try and expose that high back-line if they can.

It's difficult to look past a dominant Chelsea performance.

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Sandy Baltimore scampers onto a Lauren James pass down the left, but Roma head her dangerous cross clear.

Lexi Potter reclaims the ball in midfield and lets fly from range, but her strike whistles past the post. Not far away that.

Chelsea get us under way.

Chelsea

Chelsea boss Sonia Bompastor speaking to Disney+ about going into the game as favourites: "Again I think we come into every game with a lot of focus, we want to perform with our standards and there is no easy game. I think in this competition it’s becoming more competitive every season and I think there are no easy games or easy teams to play against. I think you can only say that maybe at the end of the game when you have done your job and put a really good performance on the pitch, that's what we are hoping for."

On whether it’s an opportunity to make a statement: "We want to win the game. We want to put a strong performance on the pitch tonight. I think right now we have four points, we really wanna take the three points from the game today. We are very much aware about the quality Roma has in their team, as a team but also as individuals. They are having a good run of results in their league, probably different competition, the Champions League for them but they played a really strong side with Barcelona as well so yeah we'll see but we are really focusing on ourselves as well. We want to get back to having a really consistent performance tonight from minute one until the end of the game."

After a quick rendition of Liquidator is played through the sound system at Plough Lane, the players come out of the tunnel and line up for the Women's Champions League anthem.

Kick-off is moments away.

Time for a little poll.

Who will go further in the Women's Champions League this season: Chelsea or Arsenal?

Emma Sanders
BBC Sport women’s football news reporter at Plough Lane

Sonia Bompastor was speaking very positively about Chelsea's start to the season yesterday.

Since that opening weekend draw against Aston Villa, Chelsea have won all of their matches in the WSL and the Champions League.

They have had to grind out their results in Europe though so Bompastor is keen for a more complete performance tonight.

She has rotated the squad with a busy November schedule on the cards but it's a chance for some of those on the fringes.

England striker Aggie Beever-Jones has struggled to have an impact since Melvine Malard's arrival in the summer.

But she starts tonight and will fancy her chances against a Roma team who are expected to come out and play, leaving potential spaces.

Erin Cuthbert is also back to full fitness and captains the team from the start for the first time since she was officially given the armband.

She admitted yesterday it is a "different feeling" and one she was excited for, and hopes to show full responsibility with.

After going top of the WSL table over the weekend, this evening Chelsea will be hoping to take a big step to qualifying for the Champions League knockouts.

Sonia Bompastor's side have four points from two games, after beating Austria Wien 1-0 and drawing 0-0 with Lyon.

Tonight they face a Roma side who are yet to score in Europe this season, after drawing 0-0 with Leuven and suffering a 6-0 thrashing by Barcelona.

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Emma Sanders
BBC Sport women’s football news reporter at Plough Lane

It's new surroundings for Chelsea in the Women's Champions League this season after they made Stamford Bridge their WSL home.

Plough Lane is where they are welcoming European opposition and Roma arrived nice and early to check out the surroundings.

There were lots of conversations going on with Chelsea's Giulia Dragoni, who spent time at Roma on loan for a few seasons.

She enjoyed her time there and attracted the attention of Sonia Bompastor.

However, she has struggled to get game time since her move from Barcelona in the summer.

She's on the bench today and will be hoping she gets the call to come on against her former club and make an impact.