{"id":651046,"date":"2025-01-25T11:00:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T16:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=651046"},"modified":"2025-01-25T11:19:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T16:19:54","slug":"chelsea-confirmed-lineup-manchester-city-jan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/01\/25\/chelsea-confirmed-lineup-manchester-city-jan\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Confirmed Lineup vs Manchester City for January 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the Chelsea Confirmed lineup for their Premier League clash with Manchester City. The Etihad will play host to the clash between the two sides competing for a place in the Champions League. The reverse fixture ended in a 2-0 win for the Citizens on the opening day of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/01\/25\/chelsea-predicted-lineup-vs-manchester-city-jan\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea Predicted Lineup vs Manchester City for January 25<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Chelsea Confirmed Lineup vs Manchester City in Premier League Tie<\/h2>\n<h3>Chelsea Team News<\/h3>\n<p>Robert Sanchez starts in goal with a back four of Reece James, Marc Cucurella, Levi Colwill, and Trevoh Chalobah. Moises Caicedo partners Enzo Fernnadez in the usual midfield partnership with Cole Palmer, Jadon Sancho and Noni Madueke supporting Nicolas Jackson as the striker.<\/p>\n<p>There is a solid bench to turn to with Filip Jorgensen, Axel Disasi, Josh Acheampong, Tosin Adarabioyo, Malo Gusto, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Pedro Neto, Christopher Nkunku, and Marc Guiu available.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chelsea Lineup:\u00a0<\/strong>Sanchez, Cucurella, James, Colwill, Chalobah, Enzo, Caicedo, Palmer, Sancho, Madueke, Jackson<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/01\/24\/chelsea-women-predicted-lineup-arsenal-jan\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea Women Predicted Lineup vs Arsenal for January 26<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Notable Changes<\/h3>\n<p>Colwill returns after missing the Wolves victory through injury which means Tosin drops out with the recent returnee Chalobah keeping his place in the team. The only other notable change is Enzo returning from his own injury to replace Dewsbury-Hall.<\/p>\n<p>This is a pretty standard lineup from Enzo Maresca with his standard partnership in midfield, his preferred fullbacks, and the more direct Madueke being chosen over Neto with Sancho being the main option on the left with Mykahilo Mudryk suspended.<\/p>\n<h3>Manchester City Team News<\/h3>\n<p>Ederson, Nunes, Khusanov, Akanji, Gvardiol, Kovacic, Gundogan, Bernardo, Marmoush, Foden, Haaland<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for the Chelsea confirmed lineup. There will be news as well as discussions on who starts, what tactical tweaks the Blues may employ, and more as they look to beat an <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/news\/the-problem-is-you-manchester-citys-poor-form-is-not-exceptional-insists-pep-guardiola-40425801\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">out-of-sorts City team<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the Chelsea Confirmed lineup for their Premier League clash with Manchester City. The Etihad will play host to the clash between the two sides competing for a place in the Champions League. The reverse fixture ended in a 2-0 win for the Citizens on the opening day of the campaign. Read More:\u00a0Chelsea Predicted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":651056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[11,17,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea","category-manchester-city","category-premier-league"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651046","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=651046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":651092,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651046\/revisions\/651092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}