{"id":659748,"date":"2026-05-09T12:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T12:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/659748\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T12:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T12:07:08","slug":"confirmed-chelsea-line-up-vs-liverpool-news-official-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/659748\/","title":{"rendered":"Confirmed Chelsea line up vs Liverpool | News | Official Site"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n Calum McFarlane has made five changes to his Chelsea side for this afternoon’s Premier League clash against Liverpool, handing Levi Colwill his first start of the season. \n <\/p>\n

Colwill came off the bench against Nottingham Forest on Monday on his return to senior action. Today, he is expected to partner Wesley Fofana<\/a> in the heart of defence, the Frenchman another new face in the team. <\/p>\n

Filip Jorgensen<\/a> replaces the injured Robert Sanchez<\/a> in goal, and there are also starts for Jorrel Hato<\/a> and Andrey Santos<\/a>. Tosin Adarabioyo<\/a>, Trevoh Chalobah<\/a>, Romeo Lavia<\/a> and Jesse Derry<\/a> are the other players who started against Forest who don’t today.<\/p>\n

The bench includes 17-year-old attacking midfielder Mathis Eboue<\/a> for the first time, as well as Ryan Kavuma-McQueen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Chelsea starting XI: Jorgensen, Gusto, Fofana, Colwill, Cucurella, Hato, Caicedo, Andrey Santos, Fernandez (c), Palmer, Joao Pedro<\/a><\/p>\n

Substitutes: Slonina, James, Acheampong, Tosin, Chalobah, Lavia, Eboue, Kavuma-McQueen, Delap<\/p>\n

Liverpool starting XI: Mamardashvili, Van Dijk, Konate, Kerkez, Szoboszlai, Mac Allister, Jones, Gakpo, Frimpong, Gravenberch, Ngumoha.<\/p>\n

Substitutes: Woodman, Gomez, Isak, Chiesa, Robertson, Nyoni, Morrison, Ndiaye, Wright.<\/p>\n

The referee is Craig Pawson. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Calum McFarlane has made five changes to his Chelsea side for this afternoon’s Premier League clash against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-659748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}