{"id":669697,"date":"2026-05-16T06:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T10:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=669697"},"modified":"2026-05-16T06:56:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T10:56:29","slug":"chelsea-vs-manchester-city-predicted-lineups-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/05\/16\/chelsea-vs-manchester-city-predicted-lineups-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea vs Manchester City Predicted Lineups &#038; Team News for May 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are the Chelsea vs Manchester City predicted lineups and latest team news for the FA Cup final on Saturday, May 16. The Blues meet the sky blue of Manchester in an effort to improve their season after a disastrous few months that saw them part ways with Enzo Maresca and Liam Rosenior in the midst of two separate poor runs of form. The Cityzens will be confident of coming away with a win after defeating this opposition in an easy 3-0 win just a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/05\/12\/neymar-world-cup-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Neymar Back for Brazil &amp; But Chelsea Star Misses Out<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Chelsea vs Manchester City Predicted Lineups for FA Cup Final<\/h2>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"max-width: 600px\"><smartframe-embed class=\"smartframe_wp_element\" customer-id=\"84d65181a95c24c4fea73e44b4e27a17\" image-id=\"ltKDihgzjnnL\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 3039px; aspect-ratio: 3039\/2270;\" ><\/smartframe-embed><\/p>\n<h3>Chelsea Team News<\/h3>\n<p>The injury news for both teams is based on the latest from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierinjuries.com\/teams\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PremierInjuries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Interim manager Calum McFarlane has a number of issues to deal with on the attacking end. Mykhailo Mudryk is suspended while Estevao, Jamie Bynoe-Gittens, and Jesse Derry are all ruled out for the remainder of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/05\/12\/ryan-kavuma-mcqueen-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Wonderkids You Haven\u2019t Heard of Yet: Ryan Kavuma-McQueen (Chelsea)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are late checks being done on the fitness of Rob Sanchez, Pedro Neto, and Alejandro Garnacho. Sanchez suffered from a head collision at Nottingham Forest and trained during the week which could see him be healthy enough to start.<\/p>\n<h3>Chelsea Predicted Lineup<\/h3>\n<p>GK &#8211; Rob Sanchez<\/p>\n<p>LB &#8211; Marc Cucurella<\/p>\n<p>CB &#8211; Jorrel Hato<\/p>\n<p>CB &#8211; Levi Colwill<\/p>\n<p>CB &#8211; Wes Fofana<\/p>\n<p>RB &#8211; Reece James<\/p>\n<p>CM &#8211; Moises Caicedo<\/p>\n<p>CM &#8211; Andrey Santos<\/p>\n<p>AM &#8211; Cole Palmer<\/p>\n<p>AM &#8211; Enzo Fernandez<\/p>\n<p>ST &#8211; Joao Pedro<\/p>\n<h3>Manchester City Team News<\/h3>\n<p>Pep Guardiola only has one possible selection dilemma, Rodri was absent from the squad in midweek to face Crystal Palace and will be a late decision. Everyone else is healthy and midweek rotation kept some names fresh.<\/p>\n<h3>Manchester City Predicted Lineup<\/h3>\n<p>GK &#8211; Gianluigi Donnarumma<\/p>\n<p>LB &#8211; Nico O&#8217;Reilly<\/p>\n<p>CB &#8211; Marc Guehi<\/p>\n<p>CB &#8211; Abdukodir Khusanov<\/p>\n<p>RB &#8211; Matheus Nunes<\/p>\n<p>CM &#8211; Bernardo Silva<\/p>\n<p>CM &#8211; Phil Foden<\/p>\n<p>W &#8211; Jeremy Doku<\/p>\n<p>AM &#8211; Rayan Cherki<\/p>\n<p>W &#8211; Antoine Semenyo<\/p>\n<p>ST &#8211; Erling Haaland<\/p>\n<p><strong>Featured Image Credit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>IMAGO \/ Paul Marriott<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the Chelsea vs Manchester City predicted lineups and latest team news for the FA Cup final on Saturday, May 16. The Blues meet the sky blue of Manchester in an effort to improve their season after a disastrous few months that saw them part ways with Enzo Maresca and Liam Rosenior in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":652800,"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":[11,8432,17,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea","category-fa-cup","category-manchester-city","category-news"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669697","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=669697"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669720,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669697\/revisions\/669720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}