{"id":659500,"date":"2025-09-17T13:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T17:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=659500"},"modified":"2025-09-17T13:49:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T17:49:04","slug":"chelsea-vs-bayern-munich-confirmed-lineups-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/09\/17\/chelsea-vs-bayern-munich-confirmed-lineups-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea vs Bayern Munich Confirmed Lineups for September 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are the confirmed lineups for Chelsea vs Bayern Munich in the UEFA Champions League group phase. This kick-off fixture sees two of the competition&#8217;s biggest names duke it out to avoid a losing start in the newly extended phase, the Blues will be hoping to pick up points here as they face an even tougher clash with Barcelona in this stage and will need as many points as they can get before it.<\/p>\n<h2>Chelsea vs Bayern Munich Confirmed Lineups for UCL Tie<\/h2>\n<h3>Chelsea Team News<\/h3>\n<p>Rob Sanchez starts in goal with Malo Gusto, Tosin Adarabioyo, Trevoh Chalobah and Marc Cucurella. Reece James is in midfield with Moises Caicedo as Enzo Fernandez, Cole Palmer, and Pedro Neto support Joao Pedro up front.<\/p>\n<h3>Notable Changes<\/h3>\n<p>Palmer, James, and Gusto return to the starting eleven as the team employs a new look pivot. This will likely see Enzo as one AM with Palmer cutting inside as the second one as Gusto overlaps. This is a similar idea to the one used to great effect against Paris Saint-Germain.<\/p>\n<h3>Bayern Munich Team News<\/h3>\n<p>Manuel Neuer is in goal with a back line of Dayot Upamecano, Jonathan Tah, Josup Stanisic, and Konrad Laimer. Joshua Kimmich is with Aleksander Pavlovic as the pivot with Serge Gnabry, Luis Diaz, and Michael Olise supporting Harry Kane up front.<\/p>\n<h3>Notable Changes<\/h3>\n<p>Very few changes from Vincent Kompany as he sticks with what has worked. Leon Goretzka for Pavlovic is the only real change from the norm.<\/p>\n<h3>Chelsea Squad<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Robert Sanchez<\/li>\n<li>Filip Jorgensen<\/li>\n<li>Marc Cucurella<\/li>\n<li>Tosin Adarabioyo<\/li>\n<li>Benoit 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>Enzo Fernandez<\/li>\n<li>Cole Palmer<\/li>\n<li>Jamie Gittens<\/li>\n<li>Facundo Buonanotte<\/li>\n<li>Andrey Santos<\/li>\n<li>Moises Caicedo<\/li>\n<li>Pedro Neto<\/li>\n<li>Liam Delap<\/li>\n<li>Joao Pedro<\/li>\n<li>Marc Guiu<\/li>\n<li>Estevao<\/li>\n<li>Alejandro Garnacho<\/li>\n<li>B List:\n<ul>\n<li>Josh Acheampong<\/li>\n<li>Tyrique George<\/li>\n<li>Romeo Lavia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Bayern Munich Squad<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Manuel Neuer<\/li>\n<li>Sven Ulreich<\/li>\n<li>Jonas Urbig<\/li>\n<li>Dayot Upamecano<\/li>\n<li>Minjae Kim<\/li>\n<li>Jonathan Tah<\/li>\n<li>Hiroki Ito<\/li>\n<li>Raphael Guerreiro<\/li>\n<li>Sacha Boey<\/li>\n<li>Cassiano Kiala<\/li>\n<li>Josip Stanisic<\/li>\n<li>Joshua Kimmich<\/li>\n<li>Leon Goretzka<\/li>\n<li>Jamal Musiala<\/li>\n<li>Michael Olise<\/li>\n<li>Alphonso Davies<\/li>\n<li>Tom Bischof<\/li>\n<li>Konrad Laimer<\/li>\n<li>Aleksander Pavlovic<\/li>\n<li>Serge Gnabry<\/li>\n<li>Harry Kane<\/li>\n<li>Nicolas Jackson<\/li>\n<li>Luis Diaz<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stay tuned for the confirmed lineups for Chelsea vs Bayern Munich. There will be news as well as discussions on who started, who was left out, and what alterations, if any, the managers make to their setups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the confirmed lineups for Chelsea vs Bayern Munich in the UEFA Champions League group phase. This kick-off fixture sees two of the competition&#8217;s biggest names duke it out to avoid a losing start in the newly extended phase, the Blues will be hoping to pick up points here as they face an even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":649727,"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":[1831,1364,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-starting-line-up","category-bayern-munich","category-chelsea"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659500","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=659500"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659681,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659500\/revisions\/659681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}