How should Chelsea line up against Liverpool at Anfield on Sunday?
Yesterday at 01:06
Liverpool vs. Chelsea, Premier League: You choose the starting lineup
Chelsea have had a relatively easy first couple months of the 2024-25 season, and new manager Enzo Maresca has taken advantage of that with a pretty good start to the season, having us fourth in the table as we come back from the October international break.
But things are about to get a whole lot tougher, with our upcoming fixture list decidedly, and quite appropriately for the Halloween season, a lot more scary.
And it won't get much tougher than a trip to Anfield to welcome us back from the break, to test our mettle against league-leaders Liverpool, who themselves are off to a great start under new management in the post-Klopp era.
Thankfully, our list of absentees is quite short: in fact, we have more players suspended for yellow card accumulation, two, than players lacking match fitness, one. That one is Reece James, who's been back to full training this week, but is, in essence, still in preseason. Enzo Maresca claimed that the captain will be available for this match, but I'd be very surprised if he played any significant part.
The two who are not available are A-teamers Marc Cucurella and Wesley Fofana, both of whom picked up their fifth yellows of the season in our last game. They would've most likely started this game, so someone from the B-squad will have to step up.
(Maresca did not say anything about Filip Jörgensen, who appeared to suffer a concussion earlier this week.)
