{"id":658773,"date":"2025-08-30T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T10:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=658773"},"modified":"2025-08-30T06:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T10:20:08","slug":"chelsea-vs-fulham-confirmed-lineups-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/08\/30\/chelsea-vs-fulham-confirmed-lineups-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea vs Fulham Confirmed Lineups for August 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are the confirmed lineups for Chelsea vs Fulham in the Premier League. This West London derby will see the Blues play their third derby in a row after defeating West Ham and drawing with Crystal Palace on the opening day. The Cottagers have looked tough to beat so far and could provide another tough opponent for the Club World Cup holders.<\/p>\n<h2>Chelsea vs Fulham Confirmed Lineups for Premier League Tie<\/h2>\n<h3>Chelsea Team News<\/h3>\n<p>Rob Sanchez starts in goal with a back line of Malo Gusto, Trevoh Chalobah, Tosin Adarabioyo, and Marc Cucurella. Moises Caicedo partners Enzo Fernandes in the defensive midfield positions with Joao Pedro, Estevao, and Pedro Neto supporting Liam Delap up front.<\/p>\n<h3>Notable Changes<\/h3>\n<p>Unchanged from Enzo Maresca as he keeps the setup that battered West Ham 5-1. No Reece James is surprising, but he is on the bench with Wesley Fofana who is continuing his recovery after a long injury.<\/p>\n<h3>Fulham Team News<\/h3>\n<p>Bernd Leno starts in goal with a back line of Timothy Castagne, Kenny Tete, Calvin Bassey, and Joachim Andersen. Sander Berg features with Ryan Sessegnon, Sasa Lukic, Josh King, Alex Iwobi, and Rodrigo Muniz.<\/p>\n<h3>Notable Changes<\/h3>\n<p>A lot of chopping and changing from the cup tie in midweek with lack of full backs still rearing its head and likely forcing Bassey to left back. Whatever system is used here there will be a weakness at the wide defensive positions and Antonee Robinson remains on the bench.<\/p>\n<h3>Chelsea 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<h3>Fulham Squad<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Bernd Leno<\/li>\n<li>Benjamin Lecomte<\/li>\n<li>Kenny Tet<\/li>\n<li>Calvin Bassey<\/li>\n<li>Joachim Andersen<\/li>\n<li>Jorge Cuenca<\/li>\n<li>Timothy Castagne<\/li>\n<li>Issa Diop<\/li>\n<li>Antonee Robinson<\/li>\n<li>Harrison Reed<\/li>\n<li>Harry Wilson<\/li>\n<li>Tom Cairney<\/li>\n<li>Sander Berge<\/li>\n<li>Andreas Pereira<\/li>\n<li>Sasa Lukic<\/li>\n<li>Josh King<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Sessegnon<\/li>\n<li>Emile Smith Rowe<\/li>\n<li>Raul Jimenez<\/li>\n<li>Rodrigo Muniz<\/li>\n<li>Adama Traore<\/li>\n<li>Alex Iwobi<\/li>\n<li>Martial Godo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Squad details via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Premier League site<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for the Chelsea vs Fulham confirmed lineups. There will be news as well as discussions on who started, who missed out, and what tactical changes the managers could make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the confirmed lineups for Chelsea vs Fulham in the Premier League. This West London derby will see the Blues play their third derby in a row after defeating West Ham and drawing with Crystal Palace on the opening day. The Cottagers have looked tough to beat so far and could provide another tough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":656858,"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":[11,2511,3,1831],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea","category-fulham","category-premier-league","category-starting-line-up"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658773","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=658773"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658850,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658773\/revisions\/658850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}