Chelsea and Arsenal are going to play on Saturday the 21st of October at 12:30 pm in the 9th week of the Premier League. The match is going to be played in London at the Stamford Bridge. The referee will be Chris Kavanagh.
Chelsea occupies the 11th position in the standings with 11 points. It comes from a 1-4 win against Burnley in its last match in the Premier League. To date, it has won 3 times, drawn twice, and lost 3 times.
Arsenal is in the 2nd place in the league with 20 points. It comes from a 1-0 win against Manchester City in its last match in the Premier League. So far, it has won 6 times and drawn twice.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Chelsea
Chelsea has mostly adopted 2 line-ups: 4-2-3-1 and 3-4-2-1 (3 times or 37.50% each of them).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (3 times), 3-4-2-1 (3 times), 4-3-3 (once) and 3-5-2 (once).
Mauricio Roberto Pochettino Trossero is expected to play against Arsenal with the following players: Robert Sánchez, Levi Colwill, Thiago Silva, Moisés Caicedo, Conor Gallagher, Mykhaylo Mudryk, Enzo Fernández and Raheem Sterling.
If this will be the line-up, the resulting average age of Chelsea would be 25.38.
There are doubts about the presence of Axel Disasi, Reece James and Nicolas Jackson.
Mauricio Roberto Pochettino Trossero will probably not be able to employ Marcus Bettinelli, Benoît Badiashile, Trevoh Chalobah, Christopher Nkunku, Armando Broja and Cole Palmer because of injury.
Ben Chilwell, Wesley Fofana, Malang Sarr and Roméo Lavia will definitely miss the match.
Arsenal
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (8 times).
Mikel Arteta Amatriain is expected to play against Chelsea with the following players: David Raya, Gabriel Magalhães, William Saliba, Ben White, Oleksandr Zinchenko, Declan Rice, Martin Ødegaard, Gabriel Martinelli and Gabriel Jesus.
Granting that the above line up is confirmed, the average age of Arsenal would be 25.11.
There are doubts about the presence of Bukayo Saka.
Mikel Arteta Amatriain will probably not be able to employ Leandro Trossard because of injury.
Jurrien Timber will definitely miss the match.
