Chelsea and Newcastle United will clash on Monday the 11th of March at 8:00 pm in the 28th week of the Premier League. The match will be staged in London at the Stamford Bridge. The referee will be John Brooks.
Chelsea is in the 11th place in the table with 36 points. It comes from a 2-2 draw against Brentford in its last match in the Premier League. Until now, it has won 10 times, draw 6 times, and lost 10 times.
Newcastle United sits in the 10th place in the league with 40 points. It comes from a 3-0 win against Wolverhampton Wanderers in its last match in the Premier League. As of now, it has won 12 times, draw 4 times, and lost 11 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 (20 times or 76.92%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (20 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 Newcastle United with the following players: Djordje Petrovic, Marc Cucurella, Axel Disasi, Thiago Silva, Malo Gusto, Moisés Caicedo, Enzo Fernández, Raheem Sterling, Cole Palmer and Nicolas Jackson.
Suppose that the line up is confirmed as above, the average age of Chelsea would be 25.90.
There are doubts about the presence of Conor Gallagher.
Benoît Badiashile, Levi Colwill, Wesley Fofana, Reece James, Ben Chilwell, Carney Chukwuemeka, Roméo Lavia, Lesley Ugochukwu and Christopher Nkunku will definitely miss the match.
Newcastle United
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (27 times).
Eddie Howe is expected to play against Chelsea with the following players: Martin Dúbravka, Dan Burn, Fabian Schär, Sven Botman, Valentino Livramento, Bruno Guimarães, Sean Longstaff, Joseph Willock, Anthony Gordon, Jacob Murphy and Alexander Isak.
In case that the line up is confirmed as above, the average age of Newcastle United would be 27.45.
Eddie Howe will probably not be able to employ Matt Targett because of injury.
Nick Pope, Lewis Hall, Kieran Trippier, Joelinton and Callum Wilson will definitely miss the match.
Eddie Howe will not be able to have the presence of Sandro Tonali who is suspended.