Sport 13-08-2003 Big Test For Chelsea who: Chelsea what: Play MSK Zilina in Champions League final qualifying round first leg where: Slovakia when: Tonight snippet: "Chelsea go into the most important tie of their future with not only a new owner, a new team, but a new coach as well," says The Independent. "Claudio Ranieri, who has been in charge for the past three years, claims he is a man reborn by the largesse of Roman Abramovich." "Do I feel like I am a new manager? Yes, of course I do," he says, prior to the first leg of their Champions League final qualifying round against MSK Zilina in Slovakia tonight, which will be shown live on BBC2. "Everything has changed... This is the new Chelsea because old Chelsea could only sign one or two players. This Chelsea signs a lot." "Juan Sebastián Verón has trained for less than a week," says Matt Dickinson in The Times. "With Damien Duff and Geremi expected to start alongside the Argentina schemer, at least three-quarters of the midfield will be making their competitive debuts on the sort of stage where Chelsea have so often come embarrassingly unstuck." "Ranieri has seen Chelsea knocked out of the Uefa Cup by lowly opponents in the past three seasons but slipping up against MSK Zilina is unthinkable," says The Guardian. "Claudio Ranieri`s men`s last foray into Europe was an unsuccessful one," recalls the BBC, "losing in the Uefa Cup first round to Viking Stavanger of Norway." [... more]

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