Burnley and Chelsea are going to face off on Saturday the 5th of March at 3:00 pm in the 28th week of the Premier League. The match is going to take place in Burnley at the Turf Moor. The encounter will be officiated by Andre Marriner.

Burnley occupies the 18th place in the league with 21 points. It comes from a 0-2 loss against Leicester City in its last match in the Premier League. Thus far, it has won 3 times, draw 12 times, and lost 10 times.​​

Chelsea sits in the 3rd place in the league with 50 points. It comes from a 0-1 win against Crystal Palace in its last match in the Premier League. To date, it has won 14 times, draw 8 times, and lost 3 times.​​

Line-ups predictions​

These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.​

Burnley​

Burnley has mostly adopted the 4-4-2 line-up most used during the season (24 times or 96.00%).

Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-4-2 (24 times) and 4-5-1 (once).

Sean Dyche is expected to play against Chelsea with the following players: N. Pope, C. Taylor, N. Collins, J. Tarkowski, C. Roberts, D. McNeil, J. Brownhill, A. Westwood, A. Lennon and G. Cornet.

Suppose that the above line up is confirmed, the projected average age of Burnley would be 28.00.

Sean Dyche will probably not be able to employ B. Mee because of injury.

W. Hennessey, E. Pieters, J. Berg Guðmunds­son and M. Vydra will definitely miss the match.

Chelsea​

Line - Ups​

Chelsea has mostly adopted the 3-4-2-1 line-up most used during the season (18 times or 72.00%).

Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-4-2-1 (18 times), 4-3-3 (2 times), 3-5-2 (2 times), 4-2-2-2 (once), 3-4-3 (once) and 3-4-1-2 (once).

Thomas Tuchel is expected to play against Burnley with the following players: E. Mendy, A. Rüdiger, T. da Silva, R. James, M. Alonso Mendoza, N. Kanté, J. Frello Filho, M. Mount, K. Havertz and R. Lukaku Menama.

Presuming that the above line up is confirmed, the resulting average age of Chelsea would be 28.90.

There are doubts about the presence of A. Christensen.

Thomas Tuchel will probably not be able to employ T. Chalobah, C. Azpilicueta Tanco and H. Ziyech because of injury.

B. Chilwell will definitely miss the match.