Chelsea and AFC Bournemouth are going to clash on Sunday the 19th of May at 4:00 pm in the 38th week of the Premier League. The match is going to take place in London at the Stamford Bridge. The referee will be Anthony Taylor.
Chelsea sits in the 7th position in the league with 57 points. It comes from a 1-2 win against Brighton & Hove Albion in its last match in the Premier League. As of now, it has won 17 times, draw 9 times, and lost 11 times.
Chelsea won the last 4 consecutive matches. The last time it lost was on the 23rd of April against Arsenal and the score was 5-0.
AFC Bournemouth occupies the 11th place in the table with 48 points. It comes from a 1-2 loss against Brentford in its last match in the Premier League. To date, it has won 13 times, draw 9 times, and lost 15 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 (31 times or 83.78%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (31 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 AFC Bournemouth with the following players: Djordje Petrovic, Marc Cucurella, Trevoh Chalobah, Thiago Silva, Malo Gusto, Moisés Caicedo, Conor Gallagher, Christopher Nkunku , Cole Palmer, Noni Madueke and Nicolas Jackson.
If the line up is confirmed as above, the average age of Chelsea would be 25.27.
Mauricio Roberto Pochettino Trossero will probably not be able to employ Carney Chukwuemeka because of injury.
Robert Sánchez, Wesley Fofana , Enzo Fernández , Roméo Lavia and Mykhaylo Mudryk will definitely miss the match.
Mauricio Roberto Pochettino Trossero will not be able to have the presence of Reece James who is suspended.
AFC Bournemouth
AFC Bournemouth has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up during the season (34 times or 91.89%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (34 times), 4-4-2 (once), 4-3-3 (once) and 5-4-1 (once).
Andoni Iraola Sagarna is expected to play against Chelsea with the following players: Mark Travers, Lloyd Kelly , Marcos Senesi, Ilya Zabarnyi, Adam Smith, Lewis Cook, Ryan Christie, Dango Ouattara, Justin Kluivert, Antoine Semenyo and Dominic Solanke.
Suppose that the line up is confirmed, the resulting average age of AFC Bournemouth would be 26.09.
Andoni Iraola Sagarna will probably not be able to employ Ryan Fredericks , Chris Mepham, Romain Faivre and Luis Sinisterra because of injury.