Chelsea face Slavia Prague in Prague in just under an hour, and the teams are in!
After two games in quick succession, and with another on the horizon this weekend, Maurizio Sarri has made major changes to the team that won against West Ham earlier this week.
The Willian and Pedro combo on the wings returns, with Olivier Giroud up front.
In midfield, Ross Barkley comes in, with Mateo Kovacic. Andreas Christensen and Marcos Alonso rotate in at the back.
It’s the team, but annoyingly, there’s no Callum Hudson-Odoi on the bench. That’s rather a shame, as it doesn’t give us much to look forward to in the second half, when we’d usually like to see some young players getting a chance. Ethan Ampadu was left in the UK.
And Hudson-Odoi is being saved for Sunday then, we assume…
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Here are the full team line-ups for Chelsea vs Slavia Prague (kick off at 20:00 pm GMT):
CHELSEA:
Chelsea team to face Slavia: Arrizabalaga, Azpilicueta, Christensen, Rudiger, Alonso, Kovacic, Jorginho, Barkley, Pedro, Giroud, Willian #CFC #UEL #SLACHE pic.twitter.com/z6kAwBOXQF
— Nizaar Kinsella (@NizaarKinsella) April 11, 2019
No Hudson-Odoi among the subs:
Caballero
Zappacosta
Luiz
Kante
Loftus-Cheek
Higuain
Hazard#CFC #UEL #SLACHE— Nizaar Kinsella (@NizaarKinsella) April 11, 2019
