Burnley and Chelsea are going to clash on Sunday the 8th of October at 1:00 am in the 8th week of the Premier League. The match will be staged in Burnley at the Turf Moor. The appointed referee is Stuart Attwell.
Burnley occupies the 18th position in the league with 4 points. It comes from a 1-2 win against Luton Town in its last match in the Premier League. To date, it has won once, drawn once, and lost 5 times.
Chelsea sits in the 11th position in the standings with 8 points. It comes from a 0-2 win against Fulham in its last match in the Premier League. So far, it has won twice, drawn twice, and lost 3 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Burnley
Burnley has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (3 times or 42.86%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (3 times), 4-4-2 (2 times), 4-3-3 (once) and 3-4-3 (once).
Vincent Kompany is expected to play against Chelsea with the following players: James Trafford, Charlie Taylor, Jordan Beyer, Ameen Al-Dakhil, Connor Roberts, Sander Berge, Josh Brownhill , Josh Cullen, Zeki Amdouni and Luca Koleosho.
Assuming that the above line up is confirmed, the resulting average age of Burnley would be 24.50.
There are doubts about the presence of Lyle Foster.
Hjalmar Ekdal, Dara O’Shea, Benson Manuel Hedilazio, Jóhann Berg Gudmundsson, Nathan Redmond, Darko Churlinov and Michael Obafemi will definitely miss the match.
Chelsea
Chelsea has mostly adopted 2 line-ups: 4-2-3-1 and 3-4-2-1 (3 times or 42.86% each of them).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (3 times), 3-4-2-1 (3 times) and 3-5-2 (once).
Mauricio Roberto Pochettino Trossero is expected to play against Burnley with the following players: Robert Sánchez, Levi Colwill, Thiago Silva, Axel Disasi, Marc Cucurella, Conor Gallagher, Moisés Caicedo, Cole Palmer, Enzo Fernández, Raheem Sterling and Nicolas Jackson.
If the line up is confirmed, the resulting average age of Chelsea would be 24.91.
Mauricio Roberto Pochettino Trossero will probably not be able to employ Trevoh Chalobah and Mykhaylo Mudryk because of injury.
Marcus Bettinelli, Benoît Badiashile, Ben Chilwell, Wesley Fofana, Malang Sarr, Carney Chukwuemeka, Reece James, Roméo Lavia and Christopher Nkunku will definitely miss the match.
Mauricio Roberto Pochettino Trossero will not be able to have the presence of Malo Gusto who is suspended.