{"id":666741,"date":"2026-03-17T11:00:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=666741"},"modified":"2026-03-17T09:14:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:14:42","slug":"chelsea-vs-psg-predicted-lineups-news-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/03\/17\/chelsea-vs-psg-predicted-lineups-news-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea vs PSG Predicted Lineups &#038; Team News for March 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are the Chelsea vs PSG predicted lineups for the second leg of their Champions League knockout tie. This will contain the most recent team news for both sides as the Blues came away from their weekend clash against Newcastle with some battle wounds. The Parisiens come into this one after getting the week off from Ligue 1 and with a healthy 5-2 lead on aggregate following their opponents&#8217; implosion in the last parts of the first leg.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/03\/10\/uefa-champions-league-round-of-16-predictions-including-psg-vs-chelsea\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">UEFA Champions League Round of 16 Predictions Including PSG vs Chelsea<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Chelsea vs PSG Predicted Lineups &amp; Team News<\/h2>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"max-width: 500px\"><smartframe-embed class=\"smartframe_wp_element\" customer-id=\"b0c95bc04383cef69c6b47df872135cf\" image-id=\"WmOBg9wbJHvy\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 3921px; aspect-ratio: 3921\/2614;\" ><\/smartframe-embed><\/p>\n<p>Date: Tuesday, March 17<br \/>\nVenue: Stamford Bridge<br \/>\nKick-off: 20:00 GMT<br \/>\nLast meeting: PSG 5-2 Chelsea (Last Week)<br \/>\nReferee: Slavko Vincic<\/p>\n<h3>Chelsea Team News<\/h3>\n<p>Liam Rosenior comes into this one with an injury list that has once again swelled in numbers after dwindling briefly. Per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierinjuries.com\/teams\/chelsea\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PremierInjuries<\/a>, long term absentees Levi Colwill and Mykhailo Mudryk remain sidelined. Filip Jorgensen has a new issue with Jamie Gittens and Estevao also out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/03\/15\/rayane-messi-chelsea-move\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">BlueCo Startlet Lined Up for Future Chelsea Move Amid Interest from European Giants<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reece James suffered a new injury at the weekend which is made worse by an illness to Malo Gusto leaving the manager potentially short of right-back options for this one.<\/p>\n<p>Injuries are hitting pretty specific areas of the squad which makes predictions for a lineup quite difficult as there could be some players forced into unusual positions.<\/p>\n<h3>PSG Team News<\/h3>\n<p>The travelling squad gives an insight into who is fit to play as Fabian Ruiz is notably left at home for this one. Doubtful names like Joao Neves, Ousmane Dembele, and Kvich Kvaratskhelia have all travelled and played in the first leg which indicates they will be healthy for this one.<\/p>\n<h3>Chelsea Predicted Lineup<\/h3>\n<p>GK &#8211; Rob Sanchez<br \/>\nLB &#8211; Marc Cucurella<br \/>\nCB &#8211; Trevoh Chalobah<br \/>\nCB &#8211; Wes Fofana<br \/>\nRB &#8211; Josh Acheampong<br \/>\nDM &#8211; Moises Caicedo<br \/>\nDM &#8211; Andrey Santos<br \/>\nAM &#8211; Enzo Fernandez<br \/>\nW &#8211; Pedro Neto<br \/>\nW &#8211; Cole Palmer<br \/>\nST &#8211; Joao Pedro<\/p>\n<h3>Paris Saint-Germain Predicted Lineup<\/h3>\n<p>GK &#8211; Matvey Safonov<br \/>\nLB &#8211; Nuno Mendes<br \/>\nCB &#8211; Marquinhos<br \/>\nCB &#8211; Pacho<br \/>\nRB &#8211; Achraf Hakimi<br \/>\nCM &#8211; Vitinha<br \/>\nCM &#8211; Joao Neves<br \/>\nCM &#8211; Warren Zaire-Emery<br \/>\nAT &#8211; Bradley Barcola<br \/>\nAT &#8211; Ousmane Dembele<br \/>\nAT &#8211; Kvicha Kvaratskhelia<\/p>\n<p><strong>Featured Image Credit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>IMAGO \/ Every Second Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the Chelsea vs PSG predicted lineups for the second leg of their Champions League knockout tie. This will contain the most recent team news for both sides as the Blues came away from their weekend clash against Newcastle with some battle wounds. The Parisiens come into this one after getting the week off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":654715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_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":[30,11,1367,1831],"tags":[9640],"class_list":["post-666741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-chelsea","category-paris-saint-germain","category-starting-line-up","tag-chelsea-predicted-lineup"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666741","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=666741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666813,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666741\/revisions\/666813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}