Chelsea and Sheffield United will play on Saturday the 16th of December at 3:00 pm in the 17th week of the Premier League. The match is going to be staged in Kingston upon Thames at the Kingsmeadow. The referee will be Andy Madley.
Chelsea sits in the 12th position in the standings with 19 points. It comes from a 2-0 loss against Everton in its last match in the Premier League. As of now, it has won 5 times, draw 4 times, and lost 7 times.
Sheffield United sits in the 20th place in the standings with 8 points. It comes from a 1-0 win against Brentford in its last match in the Premier League. Up to now, it has won twice, drawn twice, and lost 12 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Chelsea
Chelsea has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up during the season (10 times or 62.50%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (10 times), 3-4-2-1 (3 times), 4-3-3 (2 times) and 3-5-2 (once).
Mauricio Roberto Pochettino Trossero is expected to play against Sheffield United with the following players: Levi Colwill, Benoît Badiashile, Thiago Silva, Axel Disasi, Moisés Caicedo, Conor Gallagher, Enzo Fernández, Cole Palmer, Raheem Sterling and Nicolas Jackson.
If the line up is confirmed as above, the resulting average age of Chelsea would be 24.50.
There are doubts about the presence of Robert Sánchez.
Mauricio Roberto Pochettino Trossero will probably not be able to employ Ben Chilwell, Marc Cucurella, Malo Gusto, Reece James, Carney Chukwuemeka, Roméo Lavia, Christopher Nkunku, Lesley Ugochukwu and Noni Madueke because of injury.
Trevoh Chalobah, Wesley Fofana and Malang Sarr will definitely miss the match.
Sheffield United
Sheffield United has mostly adopted the 3-5-2 line-up during the season (8 times or 50.00%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-5-2 (8 times), 3-4-2-1 (4 times), 4-1-4-1 (once), 4-4-2 (once), 4-3-1-2 (once) and 3-5-1-1 (once).
Chris Wilder is expected to play against Chelsea with the following players: Wes Foderingham, Max Lowe, Anel Ahmedhodzic , Auston Trusty, Jayden Bogle, Vini Souza, Cameron Archer, Gustavo Hamer, James McAtee, Anis Slimane and Daniel Jebbison.
Assuming that this will be the line-up, the average age of Sheffield United would be 24.09.
Chris Wilder will probably not be able to employ George Baldock, Rhys Norrington-Davies and Rhian Brewster because of injury.
Chris Basham , John Egan and Tom Davies will definitely miss the match.
Chris Wilder will not be able to have the presence of Jack Robinson who is suspended.