Kante, Gilmour, and Ziyech start – Predicted Chelsea Xl vs Barnsley

Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel has been addressing the media ahead of their FA Cup 5th Round tie against Barnsley tomorrow evening.

Unfortunately like always the focus was not surrounding team news, which let’s face it is what fans actually want to know about.

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So we still do not know the fitness of Kai Havertz and if he is available, but we do know he did not train yesterday.

They did manage to ask Tuchel about N’Golo Kante and Hakim Ziyech though, who both look likely to start tomorrow.

As well as that, he said there will be many changes.

This could mean opportunities to start for Kurt Zouma, Kepa Arrizabalaga, Billy Gilmour, Hakim Ziyech, N’Golo Kante, Tammy Abraham, Andreas Christensen again, and perhaps Reece James at right centre back.

So with all that in mind, here is my predicted Xl –

(3-4-2-1) – Kepa, James, Christensen, Zouma. Hudson-Odoi, Gilmour, Kante, Emerson. Ziyech, Pulisic, Abraham.

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