Hope CHO is fit to play. Might be his last game for us.

                                                                                                                                                                                        Kepa

     Azpi    Rudi    Luiz    Emerson

  Kovacic     

       Kante                   loftus cheek   

                                                                                                                                                                    Willian       Eden     Hudson-Odoi

 

Would love to see how this line up performs but everyone knows Sarri never gonna drop his pets Alonso and Jorginho no matter how bad they play.

The reason I put Kovacic instead of  Jorginho is because against the pace of Crystal Palace on the counter he won't be able to keep up and that also applies to Alonso he  won't be able to deal with  Zaha or Townsend.

Game Day.

Come on Chelsea! Come on Chelsea!

We need our most experienced players here. Palace play for win and they don't mess about. I fear we lack of joy and flow in our attack so we need to make our couple chances count here. 

Early kick-off and at Palace. Really don't like this fixture. 

I hope the players step up here. 3 points and once again we would breathe down Spurs' necks. 

Yet another tough match against one of our bogie sides. With Spurs and Arsenal losing yesterday we need to capitalise. Whether we do is anyone's guess. COME ON YOU BLUES !!!

Don't really like this. Early fixture, crowded schedule, against an opponent who can beat anyone on their day...

Probably be a team full of the same old faces that let us down in the same old way

Willian - Giroud - Hazard is the front three.

We will be depending on some Hazard-magic again to win this.

Match day.....COME ON YOU BLUES !

Hoo boy people aint gonna like this

Wow

Just looking at that lineup I know this will be a hard game for us, hoping for some Hazard magic..

Ruben not even in the squad after he said he's fit, i'd rather an 80% ruben than 4 defensive players on the bench

Morata on the bench? I thought he was leaving in January.

4 defenders on the bench

Does RLC have a knock by any chance?

I know that Pedro/CHO had knocks. 

Clearly Sarri assumes that Roy will defend deep; hence Giroud/Barkley.

Just now, TheBluesBrother said:

Morata on the bench? I thought he was leaving in January.

Got to build up that exchange rate

1 minute ago, seanlu13913 said:

Got to build up that exchange rate

LOL.

very disappointing line up, these players will be burned out by February, clearly Sarri hasn't learned anything in his short time here or from his mistakes in Italy by playing the same players until they are drained......was hoping for a 2-1 win but will settle for a draw I guess......lets hope Palace players had too much Christmas pudding.

We will need to win this with our starting 11 as we don’t have any attacking threat on the bench to change things up. Disappointed not to see RLC in the squad. Hazard and Willian will be playing for full 90 mins. Hopefully we don’t get any injuries.

This was the problem SArri had at Napoli and he was criticized for it. Playing the same players every match. Burn out will ensue for sure. We need to buy in January.

Ruben did have a back problem and was doubtful. Like the line-up but would have preferred Morata starting.

Any streams?

I'm not sure where the complaints about the line up come from. 

Maybe Emerson or Christiensen could've played, but this is a tough away fixture, it might be better to rotate at home to soton.

Kante and jorginho have to play. Kovacic gets a rest. 

The front 3 are the only fit attackers we have.

If RLC or CHO were fit, they would be in the match day squad at the very least. 

 

Refreshing Line up.  I am sick and tired of the same old sh*t. It sucks that injury and fatigue had to enforce  the changes. Look at how spurs messed up yesterday bcoz they refused to rotate their players.