The Blues welcome Aston Villa to Stamford Bridge this Saturday for the 5.30pm kick off native time.
Within the league, there’s nothing between the 2 sides. Solely objective distinction places Chelsea one place above Villa in tenth, which actually does sum up our season.
Chelsea have one other probability to get into single digits when it comes to league place and go above Fulham into to ninth place, with Chelsea’s neighbours going to Bournemouth within the 3pm kick off.
Chelsea are unbeaten within the final 4 however stumbled in opposition to Everton. Performances have improved barely on the entire, and the gamers are enjoying with extra confidence and battle.
Villa have had the same blended bag of outcomes this season and they’re very inconsistent. They drew 1-1 with West Ham of their final sport, however beat Crystal Palace and Everton earlier than that.
Traditionally after I was youthful Villa have been all the time a little bit of a bogy staff for Chelsea. Total although, Chelsea have the sting, successful 10 greater than Villa have on this fixture.
In current occasions since 2014, Chelsea have dominated this fixture. Villa have just one as soon as in our final 12 conferences, and Chelsea gained 10 of these video games.
However that after all means completely nothing this Saturday, as Villa are proving that on type this season, they’re stage with Chelsea proper now.
We’ve got some late health calls to attend on, and likewise the truth that we had a world break and gamers like Enzo Fernandez has been touring again late this week. Enzo gives an enormous name for Potter to make as as to whether he rests him. Reece James and Wesley Fofana are each going to be late calls after current minor accidents.
So there won’t be a lot level in doing a predicted staff this early and till we hear extra from Graham Potter about fatigue and health, however I’ll give it a whole random bash anyway.
I’m going with the assumptions that Potter gained’t take dangers if any doubts with James and Fofana, the very fact Marc Cucurella is contemporary, and the necessity for Enzo Fernandez!
Raheem Sterling after all did rejoin coaching earlier this week. N’Golo Kante will probably be two weeks fitter now as properly and will definitely come off the bench at the least.
However the greatest choice will probably be Enzo, a participant who has performed each sport to date since he joined in January, however a participant who solely performed a few days in the past and had a protracted journey again. Personally, I feel Potter will decide him.
