{"id":622209,"date":"2023-02-18T06:20:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T11:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=622209"},"modified":"2023-02-18T06:20:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T11:20:04","slug":"chelsea-leaked-lineup-vs-southampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/02\/18\/chelsea-leaked-lineup-vs-southampton\/","title":{"rendered":"Thiago Silva &#038; Reece James Dropped &#8211; Chelsea Leaked Lineup vs Southampton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of their game with Southampton, there have been some news leaks within the Blues camp. This is the Chelsea leaked lineup news including who is dropped, who may start, and what the leaks mean for the starting eleven.<\/p>\n<h2>Chelsea Leaked Lineup vs Southampton<\/h2>\n<p><a id=\"ah-exYbsTw9cye8kC8MtLg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1466953782\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'ah-exYbsTw9cye8kC8MtLg',sig:'Q66qNTA1trtTk411En62_U8jYeQ3eVoORLarMhETaEk=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1466953782',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Thiago Silva Dropped<\/h3>\n<p>Silva has been a mainstay in the defence since the season began. The veteran Brazilian has aged like fine wine and continues to be one of the best players at the club. Despite that, the defender has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/C345Sam\/status\/1626686913859014656\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reportedly been dropped<\/a> for the clash with the Saints, possibly to give him a rest ahead of an important run of games.<\/p>\n<h3>Reece James Dropped<\/h3>\n<p>The Englishman has already racked up a lot of minutes since making his return from a major injury, he will <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/C345Sam\/status\/1626682013485760512\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">seemingly be rested<\/a> as he is not in the squad at all. The right-back is likely having his game time managed as he still looks to be recovering from the knee issue that took him out of the World Cup.<\/p>\n<h3>Other Absentees<\/h3>\n<p>The pairing of Marc Cucurella and Hakim Ziyech have been <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/C345Sam\/status\/1626684987092107264\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">left out of the squad<\/a>. The absence of Cucurella means three of the four first-choice defenders won&#8217;t be taking part in the match with Southampton. Ziyech missing out could spell the return of Raheem Sterling who has been dealing with injuries recently.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/02\/16\/chelsea-consider-jude-bellingham-signing\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea \u2018Ready to Move Heaven and Earth\u2019 to Sign \u2018Exceptional\u2019 Star Being Chased by Manchester City &amp; Real Madrid<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In less surprising reports, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has also been excluded from the team, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/sport\/football\/news\/chelsea-aubameyang-dropped-graham-potter-29246739\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Darren Lewis of The Mirror<\/a>. The experienced striker has been frozen out recently with Kai Havertz leading the line in his place.<\/p>\n<h3>Chelsea Leaked Lineup<\/h3>\n<p>With so many names missing there should be some players returning from injury. Based on the leaks we expect this to be the starting eleven that Graham Potter goes with:<\/p>\n<p>GK &#8211; Kepa Arrizabalaga<\/p>\n<p>LB &#8211; Ben Chilwell\/Lewis Hall<\/p>\n<p>CB &#8211; Kalidou Koulibaly\/Wesley Fofana<\/p>\n<p>CB &#8211; Benoit Badiashile<\/p>\n<p>RB &#8211; Trevoh Chalobah\/Cesar Azpilicueta<\/p>\n<p>DM &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/02\/03\/chelsea-player-ratings-vs-fulham\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Enzo Fernandez<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DM &#8211; Ruben Loftus-Cheek<\/p>\n<p>AM &#8211; Mykhailo Mudryk<\/p>\n<p>AM &#8211; Joao Felix<\/p>\n<p>AM &#8211; Noni Madueke\/Raheem Sterling<\/p>\n<p>AT &#8211; Kai Havertz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of their game with Southampton, there have been some news leaks within the Blues camp. This is the Chelsea leaked lineup news including who is dropped, who may start, and what the leaks mean for the starting eleven. Chelsea Leaked Lineup vs Southampton Embed from Getty Images Thiago Silva Dropped Silva has been a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":622210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,20],"tags":[3571,1922],"class_list":["post-622209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-chelsea","category-southampton","tag-reece-james","tag-thiago-silva"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}