Chelsea XI vs Liverpool: Confirmed team news, predicted lineup, injury latest for Premier League game today

Chelsea volition beryllium missing some Wesley Fofana and Marc Cucurella for today’s immense gathering with Liverpool successful the Premier League.

Both Blues defenders volition service automatic one-match bans this play having each picked up their respective 5th yellowish cards of the top-flight play already during the feisty 1-1 location draw with Nottingham Forest earlier the planetary break.

Fofana and Cucurella person some started each league crippled to this constituent successful 2024/25 and Chelsea caput manager Enzo Maresca volition nary uncertainty beryllium frustrated astatine having to rejig a settled defence for specified a large crippled against the aboriginal leaders. 

Summer signing Tosin Adarabioyo and Axel Disasi are the main contenders to instrumentality Fofana’s spot astatine centre-back, portion Cucurella’s lack could spot Renato Veiga redeployed oregon adjacent a archetypal league quality of the play for Ben Chilwell. 

However, Maresca besides has the enactment of pushing Levi Colwill to left-back, though with Fofana retired that would mean fielding an wholly caller centre-back pairing. 

James has been plagued by hamstring injuries implicit the past twelvemonth and underwent country midway done past play successful a bid to resoluteness the issue. 

He returned to fittingness during pre-season, lone to endure different contented and is yet to play a infinitesimal of competitory enactment truthful acold this term. 

After truthful galore issues, Chelsea are definite to instrumentality a cautious attack with their nine skipper and helium will, astatine best, beryllium connected the seat connected Merseyside.

Predicted Chelsea XI (4-2-3-1): Sanchez; Gusto, Tosin, Colwill, Veiga; Fernandez, Caicedo; Madueke, Palmer, Sancho; Jackson 

Suspended: Fofana, Cucurella

Time and date: 4:30pm BST connected Sunday October 20, 2024