{"id":382947,"date":"2026-01-21T21:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T21:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/382947\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T21:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T21:29:08","slug":"chelsea-vs-pafos-fc-team-news-enzo-fernandez-cole-palmer-decisions-made-by-liam-rosenior-for-key-champions-league-fixture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/382947\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea vs. Pafos FC team news: Enzo Fernandez, Cole Palmer decisions made by Liam Rosenior for key Champions League fixture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chelsea<\/a> head coach Liam Rosenior<\/a> has decided to rest Cole Palmer<\/a> for Wednesday’s Champions League fixture against Pafos FC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Palmer looked a forlorn figure after the Blues’ 2-0 win over Brentford on Saturday, the suggestion being that he was still struggling with a groin issue.<\/p>\n

The England international has, therefore, been omitted from the squad for the game with Pafos, but Enzo Fernandez<\/a> is surprisingly included despite Rosenior revealing that he had been suffering with flu.<\/p>\n

Rosenior has also opted to hand a start to goalkeeper Filip Jorgensen<\/a>, with Jorrel Hato<\/a> included at left-back.<\/p>\n

A total of six changes have been made to the team that started the Brentford game, with Malo Gusto<\/a>, Wesley Fofana<\/a> and Benoit Badiashile<\/a> all being brought into the defence.<\/p>\n

Liam Delap<\/a> has also gotten the nod in attack, while Jamie Gittens and Estevao Willian<\/a> are back in the squad after missing Saturday’s game through the flu.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Iconsport \/ LaPresse<\/p>\n

Chelsea legend only named on Pafos bench<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, there is disappointment for Chelsea legend David Luiz<\/a> who has only been named among the Pafos substitutes.<\/p>\n

Luiz was withdrawn with an injury issue in the previous game and had been a doubt for this contest.<\/p>\n

Ken Sema<\/a> and Mislav Orsic<\/a> – who have spent time at Watford and Southampton in the past – are named in the midfield and attack of the visitors.<\/p>\n

Chelsea XI: Jorgensen; Gusto, Fofana, Badiashile, Hato; James, Caicedo; Neto, Fernandez, Garnacho; Delap<\/p>\n

Subs: Sanchez, Acheampong, Chalobah, Cucurella, Emenalo, Santos, Walsh, George, Estevao, Gittens, Pedro, Guiu<\/p>\n

Pafos FC:\u00a0Gorter; Pileas, Luckassen, Sema, Jaja, Sunjic, Pepe, Bruno, Dragomir, Orsic, Anderson<\/p>\n

Subs:\u00a0Petrou, Michael, David Luiz, Goldar, Quina, Bassouamina, Dimata, Langa, Michael, Fontoura Caldierado<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea head coach Liam Rosenior has decided to rest Cole Palmer for Wednesday’s Champions League fixture against Pafos…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[4985,5906,218,372,5904,3553,5905,221,5903,217,101,3022,5907,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-382947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-cycling","tag-epl","tag-football","tag-formula-1","tag-golf","tag-nfl","tag-olympics","tag-premier-league","tag-rugby","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-sports-mole","tag-teams","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}