AFC Bournemouth and Chelsea are going to clash on Sunday the 17th of September at 2:00 pm in the 5th week of the Premier League. The match will be staged in Bournemouth at the Vitality Stadium. The chosen referee is David Coote.
AFC Bournemouth occupies the 16th place in the league with 2 points. It comes from a 2-2 draw against Brentford in its last match in the Premier League. So far, it has draw 3 times and lost once.
Chelsea sits in the 14th place in the league with 4 points. It comes from a 0-1 loss against Nottingham Forest in its last match in the Premier League. To date, it has won once, drawn once, and lost twice.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
AFC Bournemouth
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (4 times).
Andoni Iraola Sagarna is expected to play against Chelsea with the following players: Neto, Miloš Kerkez, Illia Zabarnyi, Marcos Senesi, Max Aarons, Ryan Christie, Lewis Cook, Marcus Tavernier, Philip Billing, Antoine Semenyo and Dominic Solanke.
Granting that this will be the line-up, the projected average age of AFC Bournemouth would be 25.27.
Andoni Iraola Sagarna will probably not be able to employ Dango Ouattara because of injury.
Adam Smith, Ryan Fredericks, Alex Scott and Emiliano Marcondes will definitely miss the match.
Chelsea
Chelsea has mostly adopted the 3-4-2-1 line-up most used during the season (3 times or 75.00%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-4-2-1 (3 times) and 3-5-2 (once).
Pierre Talmont is expected to play against AFC Bournemouth with the following players: Robert Sánchez, Levi Colwill, Thiago Silva, Axel Disasi, Ben Chilwell, Moisés Caicedo, Conor Gallagher, Malo Gusto, Enzo Fernández, Raheem Sterling and Nicolas Jackson.
Assuming that the line up is confirmed as above, the average age of Chelsea would be 25.00.
Marcus Bettinelli, Benoît Badiashile, Trevoh Chalobah, Wesley Fofana, Malang Sarr, Carney Chukwuemeka, Reece James, Roméo Lavia, Christopher Nkunku and Armando Broja will definitely miss the match.
