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Chelsea predicted line-ups & matches to play

Chelsea predicted line-ups and team news

The predicted Chelsea line-up for each of the next matches, with the players ruled out and why. Pick your own starting XI on any of them and play the match.

How each predicted Chelsea line-up is picked: the strongest eleven for each position from the current squad, with injured and unavailable players left out and the reason given. Every page shows the date its squad information was checked. The confirmed Chelsea line-up is announced about an hour before kick-off; until then, the prediction is the guide. Each fixture page comes down once its match has been played, and new fixtures are added as the season goes on.

Chelsea have won European finals as underdogs more than once, usually by holding a lead nobody expected them to hold.

Take the touchline for Chelsea in 2 matches that really happened. Pick your eleven, make the substitutions and the tactical calls, and find out whether you could have changed how it ended. Free to play in your browser, with no download and no account.

Their most famous results came against sides who were favourites on paper and dominant on the night. Chelsea absorbed pressure, took a chance when it came, and defended the rest.

That is a genuinely difficult thing to manage. Sitting deep works right up until it does not, and knowing when to stop defending is the call these matches keep asking you to make.

These are full matches played from the dugout. You select the starting eleven, then respond to what happens — a goal against, a player struggling, a window that opens for twenty minutes and closes again. The game does not tell you the right answer.

Chelsea's matches on this site tend to be tight and decided late, which makes the substitutions matter more than the team sheet. Getting a change right ten minutes early is often the whole difference.

Free to play, no sign-up, and short enough to fit into a break.

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