{"id":406184,"date":"2026-02-03T20:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/406184\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T20:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:14:08","slug":"confirmed-chelsea-line-up-vs-arsenal-news-official-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/406184\/","title":{"rendered":"Confirmed Chelsea line up vs Arsenal | News | Official Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"news-article-page__summary\">&#13;<br \/>\n                Liam Rosenior has made four changes to his team for tonight\u2019s Carabao Cup semi-final second leg.&#13;\n            <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>It looks like a possible change to Chelsea\u2019s shape, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/wesley-fofana\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wesley Fofana<\/a> comes in for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/benoit-badiashile\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Benoit Badiashile<\/a> in the defence, alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/trevoh-chalobah\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trevoh Chalobah<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/jorrel-hato\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jorrel Hato<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/marc-cucurella\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Cucurella<\/a> also returns, and could line up as a wing-back on the left, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/malo-gusto\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Malo Gusto<\/a> retaining his place on the right.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/enzo-fernandez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Enzo Fernandez<\/a> captains the side from midfield alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/moises-caicedo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Moises Caicedo<\/a>, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/andrey-santos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrey Santos<\/a> also starts. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/joao-pedro\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joao Pedro<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/liam-delap\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liam Delap<\/a> line up together in attack, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/jamie-gittens\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jamie Gittens<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/cole-palmer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cole Palmer<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/alejandro-garnacho\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Garnacho<\/a> all making way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/estevao\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Estevao Willian<\/a> returns to take his place on the bench after returning from compassionate leave. He is joined among the substitutes by Academy players <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/shumaira-mheuka\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shumaira Mheuka<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/charlie-holland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Holland<\/a>, the latter involved with the men\u2019s squad for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea: Sanchez, Fofana, Chalobah, Hato, Gusto, Santos, Caicedo, Fernandez (c), Cucurella, Joao Pedro, Delap<\/p>\n<p>Substitutes: Sharman-Lowe, Acheampong, Badiashile, Holland, Estevao, Garnacho, Palmer, Guiu, Mheuka<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/link.chelseafc.com\/1WUW\/nbe53sb2\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Make sure you tap here to have your say before kick-off using Play Predictor!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Liam Rosenior has made four changes to his team for tonight\u2019s Carabao Cup semi-final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-406184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406184","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=406184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}