Competition: EPL
Opponent: Swansea
Venue: Liberty Stadium,Swansea
After 2 back to back encounters with Manchester United, Chesea face off with Swansea City in the English Premier League on Saturday.The Swans may have lost their manager Brendan Rodgers to Liverpool, but under Micheal Laudrup, the Swans still play the tika-taka style of football and are still a wonderful team to watch. In Michu, they have free scoring midfielder and the last match even saw the Spaniard being deployed as the center forward.
The League cup victory needed almost the full team and playing the whole 120 minutes after the dramatical 90 minutes on Sunday seems to have taken its toll on the players. Midfield maestro Juan Mata is a major doubt against Swansea as he has a hamstring injury. David Luiz is also a major doubt as he is sidelined with an ankle injury. Both players took part in the whole 120 minutes on Wednesday in the League cup and Di Matteo's lack of the squad rotation is proving difficult to understand.Luiz anyway wouldn't have made the squad for Swansea as he serves a one match ban for picking up a 5th yellow card of the domestic season. German winger Marko Marin is back from injury but yet to get a look in from the Chelsea manager. I would have thought that Marin would start the League cup, only to see Mata again being asked to lead the attacking midfield. With Mata injured, RDM is now forced to look for options in the attacking midfield. Lampard is also out while Terry serves the last of his 4 match ban. Torres and Ivanovic will be back after serving their 1 match bans for the red cards received on Sunday.
With big games coming in the Champions League and the EPL, Di Matteo will be well served to rest Juan Mata and Luiz in the game against Swansea. That means that either Marin or Moses should start against Swansea. I have a feeling that RDM will go for Moses instead of Marin in that case, but certainly hope that the German gets some minutes on the pitch. This is by no means an easy outing for the Blues, but the changes are more or less forced. This is a time the squad's depth will be tested and with a good pool of players available, it would be better not to take any undue risks on players.
Probable team:
Opponent: Swansea
Venue: Liberty Stadium,Swansea
After 2 back to back encounters with Manchester United, Chesea face off with Swansea City in the English Premier League on Saturday.The Swans may have lost their manager Brendan Rodgers to Liverpool, but under Micheal Laudrup, the Swans still play the tika-taka style of football and are still a wonderful team to watch. In Michu, they have free scoring midfielder and the last match even saw the Spaniard being deployed as the center forward.
The League cup victory needed almost the full team and playing the whole 120 minutes after the dramatical 90 minutes on Sunday seems to have taken its toll on the players. Midfield maestro Juan Mata is a major doubt against Swansea as he has a hamstring injury. David Luiz is also a major doubt as he is sidelined with an ankle injury. Both players took part in the whole 120 minutes on Wednesday in the League cup and Di Matteo's lack of the squad rotation is proving difficult to understand.Luiz anyway wouldn't have made the squad for Swansea as he serves a one match ban for picking up a 5th yellow card of the domestic season. German winger Marko Marin is back from injury but yet to get a look in from the Chelsea manager. I would have thought that Marin would start the League cup, only to see Mata again being asked to lead the attacking midfield. With Mata injured, RDM is now forced to look for options in the attacking midfield. Lampard is also out while Terry serves the last of his 4 match ban. Torres and Ivanovic will be back after serving their 1 match bans for the red cards received on Sunday.
With big games coming in the Champions League and the EPL, Di Matteo will be well served to rest Juan Mata and Luiz in the game against Swansea. That means that either Marin or Moses should start against Swansea. I have a feeling that RDM will go for Moses instead of Marin in that case, but certainly hope that the German gets some minutes on the pitch. This is by no means an easy outing for the Blues, but the changes are more or less forced. This is a time the squad's depth will be tested and with a good pool of players available, it would be better not to take any undue risks on players.
Probable team:
Cech
Ivanovic Cahill
Azpilicueta Cole
Ramires Mikel
Moses Oscar Hazard
Torres
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