Chelsea are bringing back the fresh legs from EURO2016 holidays, as Gary Cahill, Cesc Fabregas, Cesar Azpilicueta, Thibaut Courtois and Pedro Rodriguez are all named in the team sheet, with a few youngsters; Ola Aina, Traore and Ruben Loftus-Cheek, also starting. Hazard still rested.
Antonio Conte’s heavy training has hopefully made some results, but that’s what we’re about to find out very soon.
Liverpool on the other hand are lining up very friendly, as Jurgen Klopp has left out most of his star players today.
Here are the team line-ups…
Chelsea XI: Begovic, Azpilicueta, Terry, Cahill, Aina, Moses, Matic, Fabregas, Willian, Traore, Loftus-Cheek
Subs: Courtois, Baba, Oscar, Pedro, Kenedy, Cuadrado, Miazga, Batshuayi, Chalobah, Hector, Abraham, Tomori.
Liverpool XI: Karius, Randall, Lovren, Klavan, Moreno, Stewart, Ejaria, Grujic, Mane, Coutinho, Firmino.
Subs: Manninger, Milner, Henderson, Lallana, Brannagan, Ings, Wisdom, Markovic, Ojo, Alexander-Arnold.
