Chelsea and Fulham will face on Saturday the 13th of January at 12:30 pm in the 21st week of the Premier League. The match is going to take place in Kingston upon Thames at the Kingsmeadow. The appointed referee is Anthony Taylor.
Chelsea sits in the 10th position in the standings with 28 points. It comes from a 2-3 win against Luton Town in its last match in the Premier League. Up to now, it has won 8 times, draw 4 times, and lost 8 times.
Fulham is in the 13th place in the standings with 24 points. It comes from a 2-1 win against Arsenal in its last match in the Premier League. To date, it has won 7 times, draw 4 times, and lost 9 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 (14 times or 70.00%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (14 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 Fulham with the following players: Djordje Petrovic, Levi Colwill, Axel Disasi, Thiago Silva, Malo Gusto, Moisés Caicedo, Conor Gallagher, Mykhaylo Mudryk, Cole Palmer, Raheem Sterling and Armando Broja.
Granting that the line up is confirmed as above, the resulting average age of Chelsea would be 25.27.
Mauricio Roberto Pochettino Trossero will probably not be able to employ Benoît Badiashile, Ben Chilwell and Carney Chukwuemeka because of injury.
Robert Sánchez, Trevoh Chalobah, Marc Cucurella, Wesley Fofana, Reece James, Roméo Lavia, Andrey Santos, Lesley Ugochukwu, Nicolas Jackson and Christopher Nkunku will definitely miss the match.
Fulham
Fulham has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up during the season (14 times or 70.00%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (14 times) and 4-3-3 (6 times).
Marco Alexandre Saraiva da Silva is expected to play against Chelsea with the following players: Bernd Leno, Antonee Robinson, Issa Diop, Tim Ream, Timothy Castagne, João Palhinha, Tom Cairney, Willian, Andreas Pereira, Harry Wilson and Raúl Jiménez.
Assuming that the above line up is confirmed, the estimate average age of Fulham would be 30.73.
Fodé Ballo-Touré, Calvin Bassey, Tyrese Francois, Alex Iwobi and Adama Traoré will definitely miss the match.