{"id":652468,"date":"2025-03-06T11:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T16:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=652468"},"modified":"2025-03-06T11:38:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T16:38:41","slug":"chelsea-confirmed-lineup-copenhagen-mar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/03\/06\/chelsea-confirmed-lineup-copenhagen-mar\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Confirmed Lineup vs Copenhagen for March 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the Chelsea confirmed lineup for their return to Europa Conference League action. They are set to take on Danish side Copenhagen who scraped through the new-look group format before disposing of Heidenheim of the play-offs. The Blues dominated the competition<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uefa.com\/uefaconferenceleague\/standings\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> in the early stages<\/a>, winning all six group games with a high goals tally.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/03\/06\/chelsea-predicted-lineup-vs-copenhagen-mar\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea Predicted Lineup vs Copenhagen for March 6<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Chelsea Confirmed Lineup vs Copenhagen in Conference League Tie<\/h2>\n<h3>Chelsea Team News<\/h3>\n<p>Rob Sanchez starts in goal with Benoit Badiashile returning from injury to play with Tosin Adarabioyo, Trevoh Chalobah, and Malo Gusto in a presumed back four. Moises Caicedo will likely partner Reece James in the centre of midfield with Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall pushing up. Cole Palmer, Tyrique George, and Shim Mheuka round out the starters.<\/p>\n<p>Filip Jorgensen is on the bench alongside Lucas Bergstrom, Marc Cucurella, Levo Colwill, Pedro Neto, Enzo Fernandez, Christopher Nkunku, Jadon Sancho, Josh Acheampong, and Mathias Amougou.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chelsea Lineup:\u00a0<\/strong>Sanchez, Badiashile, Tosin, Chalobah, Gusto, James, Caicedo, Dewsbury-Hall, Palmer, George Mheuka<\/p>\n<h3>Notable Changes<\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting lineup from Enzo Maresca that could mirror the 4-3-3 setup used against Aston Villa where James is in midfield and allows Caicedo to be more box-to-box. Palmer will be on the left and invert to join Dewsbury-Hall outside the box with Gusto overlapping.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to go with Badiashile, Tosin, and Chalobah in defense is an interesting move, the French defender can play as a left-back but could help form a hybrid back 3\/5 instead. The other notable move is Mheuka getting a start. He is a natural striker and offers some rest for Neto in the absence of other striking options.<\/p>\n<h3>Copenhagen Team News<\/h3>\n<p>Ramaj, Diks, Gabriel Pereira, Hatzidiakos, Claesson, Froholdt, Chiakha, Gocholeishvilli, Meling, Achouri, Clem<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for the Chelsea confirmed lineup. There will be news as well as discussions on who starts, who was dropped, and any tactical tweaks the manager might make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the Chelsea confirmed lineup for their return to Europa Conference League action. They are set to take on Danish side Copenhagen who scraped through the new-look group format before disposing of Heidenheim of the play-offs. The Blues dominated the competition in the early stages, winning all six group games with a high goals [&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":[11,8687,1831],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea","category-europa-conference-league","category-starting-line-up"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652468","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=652468"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652483,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652468\/revisions\/652483"}],"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=652468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}