The people's choice against Bournemouth: Risk aversion

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Chelsea vs. AFC Bournemouth, Premier League: Preferred lineup

With action off the pitch heating up, our squad depth has been reduced a bit, which perhaps lent some clarity to the choices for the starting lineup.

Well, most of them at least: 8 of the 11 spots were claimed by players with over 80 per cent of the vote form the WAGNH Community for this one, including at goalkeeper, in midfield, and in large portions of the defense and the attack.

But we do have some close calls as well for the final three, with a bit of risk aversion seeing more established, or less physically risky, options win out in the end. So we have Tosin Adarabioyo instead of Josh Acheampong (40%), Malo Gusto instead of Reece James (44%), and Pedro Neto instead of either Noni Madueke (36%) or João Félix (28%).

Roméo Lavia (31%) did not get as close, and Christopher Nkunku and Marc Guiu, both at just 5 per cent, were not even in the conversation.

4-2-3-1 (83%)
Sánchez (86%) | Cucurella (98%), Colwill (97%), Tosin (65%), Gusto (47%) | Enzo (88%), Caicedo (99%) | Sancho (82%), Palmer (98%), Neto (44%) | Jackson (89%)