The formalism of the matching conditions between transverse connected Green functions is extended to include the two next to leading corrections, namely the two-loop M_H^2 and the one-loop 1/M_H^2 contributions to the coefficients of the electroweak chiral lagrangian which are relevant to the LEP1 physics: a_0, â_1 and â_8. We derive general expressions for these three coefficients in terms of just bare gauge boson self-energies. By means of the screening theorem, it is shown that the same

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... ssions can be used to get directly from a MSM calculation, the leading Higgs mass contribution to these coefficients at each loop order. In a more general framework, we solve the problems concerning the loss of gauge invariance and the inclusion of only gauge invariant operators by proposing a new formulation of the matching conditions at two and higher loop order. As an example of the usefulness of using an electroweak chiral lagrangian to parametrize the MSM, we will give a simple proof of an extra screening for the renormalized photon self-energy in the on-shell scheme at all orders. In addition it is shown the automatic cancellation of the unphysical M_H^4 terms in the other gauge boson self-energies at two-loops in this scheme. Finally we will apply the obtained electroweak chiral lagrangian to compute the different Higgs mass contributions to the bosonic part of Δρ, Δ r and Δκ, analyzing carefully the hierarchy between corrections.