Chelsea vs Leicester – Team News: Key figure returns at last | OneFootball

Chelsea face Leicester at Stamford Bridge in just under an hour, and the teams are in!

In the buildup to this game we called it one of the most interesting selections we’ll get from Maresca all year due to the number of players who are returning or who have just returned to fitness.

There were major question marks throughout the side after a big switch up in midweek to face Copenhagen, and now we have our answers.

Against his old team, Maresca brings back another former Fox to the lineup. Wesley Fofana plays his first game since picking up an injury in December. Interestingly, he seems to be at right back. Tosin and Levi Colwill are in the centre.

There’s a twist in goal too – Robert Sanchez has been restored to the Premier League lineup again. We suspected that might be the case after he played well against Copenhagen while Filip Jorgensen has struggled in his time as the league keeper.

Apart from that, the team is as you’d expect. Cucurella plays at left back, Enzo Fernandez and Moises Caicedo in midfield, with Cole Palmer ahead of them.

Christopher Nkunku and Jadon Sancho play out wide, with Pedro Neto keeping his place as makeshift striker.

Here are the full team line-ups for Chelsea vs Leicester (kick off at 14:00 GMT)

CHELSEA:

It will be interesting to see how this is all arranged – it could be a back 3 with Moises Caicedo at right back, but so far this season Maresca has preferred to keep the shape the same and play players out of position rather than change shape to suit the players he has available.

This is a weak Leicester team who have been shipping goals, and we should be able to blow them away even without some of our attacking options. Come on Chelsea!