{"id":651401,"date":"2025-02-03T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=651401"},"modified":"2025-02-01T10:13:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T15:13:55","slug":"chelsea-predicted-lineup-vs-west-ham-feb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/02\/03\/chelsea-predicted-lineup-vs-west-ham-feb\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Predicted Lineup vs West Ham for February 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a Chelsea predicted lineup for their Premier League clash with West Ham in the Monday night kickoff. Former coach Graham Potter will face the Blues for the first time since departing a few years ago.<\/p>\n<h2>Chelsea Predicted Lineup vs West Ham in PL Clash<\/h2>\n<h3>How Chelsea Have Lined Up Recently<\/h3>\n<p>Robert Sanchez and Filip Jorgensen have shared the duties in goal. The back four has been made up of Marc Cucurella, Reece James, Levi Colwill, Tosin Adarabioyo, and Trevoh Chalobah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/01\/31\/chelsea-mathys-tel-multiple-clubs-interested\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea Face Competition From Two Premier League Rivals For &#8216;Very Confident&#8217; Bundesliga Ace<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In midfield, Moises Caicedo and Enzo Fernandez are the two deeper midfielders, with Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall breaking in once due to injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The attacking side features Cole Palmer through the middle, Jadon Sancho, Pedro Neto, or Noni Madueke on the wings, and Nicolas Jackson as the striker.<\/p>\n<h3>Chelsea Recent Form and Tactics<\/h3>\n<p>Enzo Maresca has stuck with his 4-2-3-1 into a 3-2-4-1 setup with the main tweak being who inverts and to where. Cucurella has recently been moved into the left number 10 spot instead of becoming a defensive midfielder.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/01\/27\/naomi-girma-chelsea-transfer\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">\u2018We\u2019re Really Lucky to Have Her\u2019: Chelsea Complete Record Breaking Signing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The results haven&#8217;t gone to plan with the Blues sliding from second in the table to joint-seventh as of this writing and only boasting one league win in their last seven outings. Some draws have kept things from completely falling apart but last week&#8217;s poor 3-1 loss to Manchester City was a reminder that things are not going well for Chelsea.<\/p>\n<h3>Chelsea Injuries to Consider<\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/skyre_boy\/status\/1885572949664485867\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">same three main absences<\/a> as Romeo Lavia, Wesley Fofana, and Benoit Badiashile remain out with injuries. Mykhailo Mudryk is suspended.<\/p>\n<h3>Chelsea Predicted Lineup vs West Ham<\/h3>\n<p>GK &#8211; Filip Jorgensen<\/p>\n<p>LB &#8211; Marc Cucurella<\/p>\n<p>CB &#8211; Levi Colwill<\/p>\n<p>CB &#8211; Trevoh Chalobah<\/p>\n<p>RB &#8211; Reece James<\/p>\n<p>DM &#8211; Moises Caicedo<\/p>\n<p>DM &#8211; Enzo Fernandez<\/p>\n<p>LW &#8211; Jadon Sancho<\/p>\n<p>AM &#8211; Cole Palmer<\/p>\n<p>RW &#8211; Noni Madueke<\/p>\n<p>ST &#8211; Nicolas Jackson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a Chelsea predicted lineup for their Premier League clash with West Ham in the Monday night kickoff. Former coach Graham Potter will face the Blues for the first time since departing a few years ago. Chelsea Predicted Lineup vs West Ham in PL Clash How Chelsea Have Lined Up Recently Robert Sanchez and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":647063,"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":[11,3],"tags":[9640],"class_list":["post-651401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea","category-premier-league","tag-chelsea-predicted-lineup"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651401","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=651401"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":651404,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651401\/revisions\/651404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}