Soccer-Basel brush past Chelsea but Londoners advance

* Chelsea through to last 16 despite defeat * Salah's goal earns Basel unlikely double (Adds details) By Brian Homewood BASEL, Switzerland, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Champions League outsiders Basel completed a remarkable double over Chelsea on Tuesday, winning 1-0 with a late Mohamed Salah goal although the stunned visitors still qualified for the last 16. Chelsea, beaten 2-1 at home by the Swiss club in September when Salah was also on target, reached the knocut stage with a game to spare after Schalke 04 drew 0-0 at Steaua Bucharest but there was nothing else for coach Jose Mourinho to smile about. Thoroughly outplayed, the 2012 champions only stayed in the match for so long thanks to some splendid goalkeeping from Petr Cech while his opposite number Yann Sommer did not have a single shot to warm him up on a freezing night. The 87th-minute goal, which Mourinho called "ridiculous", came when Fabian Schaer found Salah with a long pass out of defence and the tricky Egyptian, who pestered Chelsea all night, broke clear down the left before lifting the ball over Cech.



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