{"id":551709,"date":"2026-04-26T13:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T13:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/551709\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T13:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T13:57:09","slug":"confirmed-chelsea-line-up-vs-leeds-united-news-official-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/551709\/","title":{"rendered":"Confirmed Chelsea line up vs Leeds United | News | Official Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"news-article-page__summary\">&#13;<br \/>\n                    Three changes to the Chelsea side have been made by Calum McFarlane, as the Blues take on Leeds United at Wembley for a place in the FA Cup final. &#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>The Blues are bidding to reach the showpiece game of the competition for the 17th time, a feat only previously achieved by Manchester United and Arsenal. Leeds, meanwhile, are hoping to seal a fifth FA Cup final appearance. <\/p>\n<p>In the Chelsea dugout this afternoon is McFarlane, named interim head coach on Wednesday, and he has made three alterations to the side that began our midweek Premier League fixture against Brighton &amp; Hove Albion. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/robert-sanchez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Sanchez<\/a> continues between the posts for Chelsea and is set to be protected by a back four of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/malo-gusto\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Malo Gusto<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/trevoh-chalobah\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trevoh Chalobah<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/tosin-adarabioyo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tosin Adarabioyo<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/marc-cucurella\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Cucurella<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/moises-caicedo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Moises Caicedo<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/romeo-lavia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Romeo Lavia<\/a> start once again in midfield, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/alejandro-garnacho\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Garnacho<\/a> comes into the attack alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/enzo-fernandez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Enzo Fernandez<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/pedro-neto\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pedro Neto<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/joao-pedro\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joao Pedro<\/a>, after missing our last two matches, is back and spearheads the Chelsea frontline, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/liam-delap\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liam Delap<\/a> dropping to the substitutes&#8217; bench. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/cole-palmer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cole Palmer<\/a> returns among the substitutes, having missed the Brighton game.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea: Sanchez; Gusto, Chalobah, Tosin, Cucurella; Caicedo, Lavia; Neto, Fernandez (c), Garnacho; Joao Pedro<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea substitutes: Sharman-Lowe, Acheampong, Fofana, Hato, Essugo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/andrey-santos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrey Santos<\/a>, Palmer, Derry, Delap<\/p>\n<p>&#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; Three changes to the Chelsea side have been made by Calum McFarlane, as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-551709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551709","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=551709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}