Brentford and Chelsea will play on Saturday the 2nd of March at 3:00 pm in the 27th week of the Premier League. The match will be played in Brentford at the Brentford Community Stadium. The appointed referee is Jarred Gillett.
Brentford is in the 16th position in the table with 25 points. It comes from a 4-2 loss against West Ham United in its last match in the Premier League. To date, it has won 6 times, draw 5 times, and lost 15 times.
Brentford lost the last 3 consecutive matches. The last time it won was on the 10th of February against Wolverhampton Wanderers and the score was 0-2.
Chelsea is in the 11th position in the table with 35 points. It comes from a 1-1 draw against Manchester City in its last match in the Premier League. Thus far, it has won 10 times, draw 5 times, and lost 10 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Brentford
Brentford has mostly adopted the 3-5-2 line-up during the season (12 times or 46.15%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-5-2 (12 times), 4-3-3 (10 times), 5-3-2 (3 times) and 3-4-3 (once).
Thomas Frank is expected to play against Chelsea with the following players: Mark Flekken, Kristoffer Ajer, Zanka, Nathan Collins, Sergio Reguilón, Christian Nørgaard, Vitaly Janelt, Frank Onyeka, Mads Roerslev, Yoane Wissa and Ivan Toney .
Presuming that this will be the line-up, the estimate average age of Brentford would be 27.73.
Rico Henry, Aaron Hickey, Ben Mee, Ethan Pinnock, Josh Dasilva, Bryan Mbeumo and Kevin Schade will definitely miss the match.
Chelsea
Chelsea has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up during the season (19 times or 76.00%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (19 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 Brentford with the following players: Djordje Petrovic, Ben Chilwell, Axel Disasi, Levi Colwill, Malo Gusto, Moisés Caicedo, Enzo Fernández, Raheem Sterling, Conor Gallagher, Cole Palmer and Nicolas Jackson.
Granting that the line up is confirmed as above, the average age of Chelsea would be 24.18.
Mauricio Roberto Pochettino Trossero will probably not be able to employ Marc Cucurella and Thiago Silva because of injury.
Benoît Badiashile, Wesley Fofana, Reece James, Carney Chukwuemeka, Roméo Lavia, Lesley Ugochukwu and Christopher Nkunku will definitely miss the match.
