Exactly 24 hours after beating AC Milan in Indonesia, Chelsea take a nearly 1,400km trip to Malaysia to face Johor Darul Ta\u2019zim at their turf. With manager Xabi Alonso choosing to give first-team starters as much time as possible on the pitch yesterday, it\u2019s no surprise this starting lineup is even younger in contrast.<\/p>\n
At the very least it\u2019s one more chance for those about to be professionals to impress the current boss. Some of which might already be in his radar given past performances.<\/p>\n
Johor Darul Ta\u2019zim starting eleven:
tba<\/p>\n
Chelsea starting lineup (3-4-3?):
Sharman-Lowe; Sarr, Tosin, Anselmino; Quenda, Nicoll-Jazuli, Essugo (c), Gittens; Est\u00eav\u00e3o, Delap, Jackson<\/p>\n
Substitutes from: Slonina, Curd, Subuloye, Diakit\u00e9, Watson, Walsh, Kavuma-McQueen, Mudryk, Satpayev<\/p>\n
Date \/ Time: Sunday, August 9, 2026, 8pm (local), 13.00 BST; 8am EDT
Venue: Sultan Ibrahim Stadium, Iskandar Puteri, Malaysia<\/p>\n
On TV: none (UK\/USA); elsewhere<\/a> Be excellent to each other, and party on, dudes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exactly 24 hours after beating AC Milan in Indonesia, Chelsea take a nearly 1,400km trip to Malaysia to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[29456,59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-732512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-chelsea-fc-friendlies","tag-gb","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732512","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=732512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Streaming: Paramount+ (USA), FanCode (India); StarTimes (NGA); CFC+ (UK\/int\u2019l) \u2014 CFC+<\/a> is Chelsea\u2019s new-ish streaming service; you can watch there for \u00a39.99 (or subscribe for the whole year for \u00a319.99)<\/p>\n