{"id":664713,"date":"2026-02-03T13:25:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=664713"},"modified":"2026-02-03T13:49:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:49:03","slug":"chelsea-vs-arsenal-confirmed-lineups-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/02\/03\/chelsea-vs-arsenal-confirmed-lineups-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea vs Arsenal Confirmed Lineups for February 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are the Chelsea vs Arsenal confirmed lineups for their Carabao Cup semi-final. The Blues come into this one at a defecit after losing the first leg 3-2 with two goals from Alejandro Garnacho keeping them in the tie which they never led. The task gets even more difficult as they are going away to the Emirates, trying to defeat one of Europe&#8217;s most in-form machines to secure a place at Wembley for the final.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/02\/03\/chelsea-team-news-predicted-lineup-arsenal-feb\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea Team News &amp; Predicted Lineup vs Arsenal<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Chelsea vs Arsenal Confirmed Lineups &amp; Team News for Carabao Semi-Final<\/h2>\n<h3>Chelsea Team News<\/h3>\n<p>Liam Rosenior is expected to be without a number of players for this key outing. Estevao is one of the bigger absentees due to a personal issue that saw him suddenly out of the squad against West Ham.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierinjuries.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PremierInjuries<\/a>, they will also be without Levi Colwill, Romeo Lavia, Dario Essugo, Tosin Adarabioyo, Jamie Gittens, Filip Jorgensen, and Mykhailo Mudryk.<\/p>\n<p>Cole Palmer, Malo Gusto, and others could be rested to lighten their workload, particularly as Palmer is recovering from an injury that has kept him out for most of the term.<\/p>\n<h3>Chelsea Confirmed Lineup<\/h3>\n<p>Rob Sanchez starts in goal with a back line of Malo Gusto, Wes Fofana, Trevoh Chalobah, Jorrel Hato, and Marc Cucurella. Moises Caicedo partners Andrey Santos in midfield with Enzo Fernandez and Joao Pedro playing off Liam Delap.<\/p>\n<p>Subs are Sharman-Lowe, Acheampong, Badiashile, Holland, Palmer, Estevao, Garnacho, Guiu, Mheuka.<\/p>\n<h3>Arsenal Team News<\/h3>\n<p>Bukayo Saka is the headline injury, he had an issue in the warm-up recently and has no known timeline for a return. Max Dowman and Mikel Merino are the other injured names for this semi-final clash. Merino is sidelined long-term and Dowman is definitely going to miss this match, the only one who could still feature is Saka.<\/p>\n<h3>Arsenal Confirmed Lineup<\/h3>\n<p>Kepa Arrizabalaga starts in goal with Jurrien Timber, William Saliba, Gabriel, and Piero Hincapie in the back line. Declan Rice starts with Martin Zubimendi and Eberechi Eze in midfield. Noni Madueke, Gabriel Martinelli, and Viktor Gyokeres are the attacking three.<\/p>\n<p>Subs are Raya, Mosquera, White, Jesus, Norgaard, Trossard, Havertz, Calafiori, and Lewis-Skelly<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for the Chelsea vs Arsenal confirmed lineups. There will be details on who started, who missed out, as well as the most recently available team news for both clubs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Featured Image Credit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>IMAGO \/ Pro Sports Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the Chelsea vs Arsenal confirmed lineups for their Carabao Cup semi-final. The Blues come into this one at a defecit after losing the first leg 3-2 with two goals from Alejandro Garnacho keeping them in the tie which they never led. The task gets even more difficult as they are going away to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":653335,"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":[1831,8,11,30],"tags":[1602],"class_list":["post-664713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-starting-line-up","category-arsenal","category-chelsea","category-news","tag-carabao-cup"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664713","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=664713"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664756,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664713\/revisions\/664756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}