{"id":658558,"date":"2025-08-22T13:30:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T17:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=658558"},"modified":"2025-08-22T13:56:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T17:56:36","slug":"chelsea-vs-west-ham-confirmed-lineups-august-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/08\/22\/chelsea-vs-west-ham-confirmed-lineups-august-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea vs West Ham Confirmed Lineups for August 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>These are the confirmed lineups for Chelsea vs West Ham at the London Stadium. These two London rivals will face off in the 20:00 Friday night slot. Both teams will be eager to collect their first three points of the 2025\/26 Premier League season.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/08\/21\/manchester-united-santos-chelsea-garnacho\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United Wanted \u2018Monster\u2019 in Return For Chelsea Getting Alejandro Garnacho<\/a><\/div>\n<h2>Chelsea vs West Ham Confirmed Lineups for London Derby<\/h2>\n<div>\n<h3>Chelsea Team News<\/h3>\n<p>Starting XI: Sanchez, Gusto, Chalobah, Tosin, Cucurella, Caicedo, Enzo, Neto, Palmer, Joao Pedro, Delap.<\/p>\n<p>Subs: Jorgensen, Acheampong, Fofana, Hato, James, Essugo, Andrey Santos, Est\u00eav\u00e3o Wllian, Gittens.<\/p>\n<h3>Notable News<\/h3>\n<p>Chelsea drew their opening game 0-0 against Crystal Palace and have made some changes for this London Derby against West Ham. Reece James and Jamie Gittens drop to the bench, with Gusto and Liam Delap coming into the starting XI.<\/p>\n<h3>West Ham Team News<\/h3>\n<p>Starting XI: Hermansen, Wan-Bissaka, Todibo, Kilman, Aguerd, Diouf, Ward-Prowse, Sou\u010dek, Paquet\u00e1, Bowen, F\u00fcllkrug<br \/>\nSubs: Areola, Walker-Peters, Scarles, Mavropanos, Potts, Rodr\u00edguez, Irving, Marshall, Wilson<\/p>\n<h3>Notable News<\/h3>\n<div>West Ham endured a disastrous opening day, losing 3-0 to Sunderland at the Stadium of Light, and make one change to the team, which started that game. Czech international Tom\u00e1\u0161 Sou\u010dek comes into the starting XI at the expense of Guido Rodr\u00edguez, who drops to the substitutes&#8217; bench.<\/div>\n<h3>Chelsea Premier League Squad<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Robert S\u00e1nchez<\/li>\n<li>Filip J\u00f8rgensen<\/li>\n<li>Gaga Slonina<\/li>\n<li>Marc Cucurella<\/li>\n<li>Tosin Adarabioyo<\/li>\n<li>Beno\u00eet Badiashile<\/li>\n<li>Levi Colwill<\/li>\n<li>Jorrel Hato<\/li>\n<li>Trevoh Chalobah<\/li>\n<li>Reece James<\/li>\n<li>Malo Gusto<\/li>\n<li>Wesley Fofana<\/li>\n<li>Aaron Anselmino<\/li>\n<li>Josh Acheampong<\/li>\n<li>Mykhailo Mudryk<\/li>\n<li>Enzo Fern\u00e1ndez<\/li>\n<li>Cole Palmer<\/li>\n<li>D\u00e1rio Essugo<\/li>\n<li>Andrey Santos<\/li>\n<li>Mois\u00e9s Caicedo<\/li>\n<li>Rom\u00e9o Lavia<\/li>\n<li>Pedro Neto<\/li>\n<li>Liam Delap<\/li>\n<li>Jamie Gittens<\/li>\n<li>Nicolas Jackson<\/li>\n<li>Christopher Nkunku<\/li>\n<li>Jo\u00e3o Pedro<\/li>\n<li>Tyrique George<\/li>\n<li>Est\u00eav\u00e3o<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>(Squad details <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/match\/2561914\/west-ham-united-vs-chelsea?tab=squads\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>West Ham Premier League Squad<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Mads Hermansen<\/li>\n<li>Wes Foderingham<\/li>\n<li>Alphonse Areola<\/li>\n<li>Kriszti\u00e1n Hegyi<\/li>\n<li>Kyle Walker-Peters<\/li>\n<li>Maximilian Kilman<\/li>\n<li>Nayef Aguerd<\/li>\n<li>Konstantinos Mavropanos<\/li>\n<li>Jean-Clair Todibo<\/li>\n<li>Aaron Wan-Bissaka<\/li>\n<li>Ollie Scarles<\/li>\n<li>Emerson<\/li>\n<li>Edson \u00c1lvarez<\/li>\n<li>James Ward-Prowse<\/li>\n<li>Lucas Paquet\u00e110<\/li>\n<li>El Hadji Malick Diouf<\/li>\n<li>Guido Rodr\u00edguez<\/li>\n<li>Tom\u00e1s Soucek<\/li>\n<li>Freddie Potts<\/li>\n<li>Andy Irving<\/li>\n<li>George Earthy<\/li>\n<li>Lewis Orford<\/li>\n<li>Crysencio Summerville<\/li>\n<li>Callum Wilson<\/li>\n<li>Niclas F\u00fcllkrug<\/li>\n<li>Luis Guilherme<\/li>\n<li>Jarrod Bowen20<\/li>\n<li>Maxwel Cornet<\/li>\n<li>Callum Marshall<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Squad details <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/match\/2561914\/west-ham-united-vs-chelsea?tab=squads\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n<div>Stay tuned for the Chelsea vs West Ham confirmed lineups. Who will get the nod in this London Derby? Could we see Est\u00eav\u00e3o start for Maresca\u2019s men?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the confirmed lineups for Chelsea vs West Ham at the London Stadium. These two London rivals will face off in the 20:00 Friday night slot. Both teams will be eager to collect their first three points of the 2025\/26 Premier League season. Read More: Manchester United Wanted \u2018Monster\u2019 in Return For Chelsea Getting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":650422,"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":[3,11,1831,27],"tags":[7508,9937,32456,2024,2995,32555],"class_list":["post-658558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-chelsea","category-starting-line-up","category-west-ham","tag-chelsea-news","tag-enzo-maresca","tag-estevao","tag-graham-potter","tag-joao-pedro","tag-west-ham-team-news"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658558","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\/4106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658558"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658563,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658558\/revisions\/658563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}