Chelsea are appealing Arjen Robben’s red card against West Brom on Saturday. The Dutch winner was sent off by referee Mark Halsey for a dangerous tackle on Jonathan Greening during the 2-1 win at The Hawthorns.
The FA are likely to charge Chelsea with other disciplinary offences arising from the match but no decision will be taken on these before tomorrow’s disciplinary commission hearing.
Halsey has included several of the incidents in his official report and Chelsea are set to be charged for confronting the referee and for being late onto the pitch after half-time.
Manager Jose Mourinho may also face action after clashing with rival boss Bryan Robson on the touchline. West Brom are also likely to face action after their players also surrounded Halsey on one occasion.
Damien Duff, meanwhile, is adamant Chelsea can salvage their Champions League dream by beating Barcelona in the Nou Camp tomorrow.
Trailing 2-1 from a highly-charged first leg of their last-16 clash with the La Liga champions at Stamford Bridge, boss Jose Mourinho’s side face an uphill task to reach the quarter finals.
Chelsea did achieve such a feat at the same stage of the competition last season, but on that occasion the return leg was at home after a 2-1 defeat in Spain.
This time, not many are backing the Blues to pull off what would be an astonishing result, especially as Mourinho’s away record in the Champions League with Chelsea is poor - five defeats in nine games.
Yet defiant winger Duff insists it is not ‘mission impossible’ as the Republic of Ireland international said: "We know we need to win, as simple as that.
"But we definitely can win. I don’t see why we can’t. We can beat anyone on our day. We’ve faced tasks like this before at Chelsea and come through them, and if there is any squad in the world that can do this, it’s us."
Duff believes Atletico Madrid showed the way to glory when they beat Barcelona 3-1 at the Nou Camp four weeks ago.
"They are beatable," added Duff. "I watched them the other week when they lost 3-1 to Atletico, so if they can do it, why can’t we.
"Looking at them from last year they have virtually the same team, and we know what their weaknesses are.
"Obviously, we didn’t exploit them as much as we would have liked at home, but then we were down 10 men after half an hour. This time it will be 11 versus 11 in Barcelona, so let’s see what happens."
Frank Lampard hopes to be fit. He trains this evening and will start if he comes through with no reaction to the hamstring strain which ruled him out of last week’s England game and Saturday’s win at West Brom.
Michael Essien completes his two-match ban and Asier del Horno is suspended after his red card in the first leg.
