{"id":669699,"date":"2026-05-16T08:15:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T12:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=669699"},"modified":"2026-05-16T09:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T13:06:15","slug":"chelsea-vs-manchester-city-confirmed-lineups-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/05\/16\/chelsea-vs-manchester-city-confirmed-lineups-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea vs Manchester City Confirmed Lineups for FA Cup Final"},"content":{"rendered":"

These are the Chelsea vs Manchester City confirmed lineups and latest team news for the FA Cup final. The Blues haven’t beaten Pep Guardiola’s charges since the UEFA Champions League final back in 2021, sometimes grabbing draws but often being outclassed by their fellow blue-jersey-wearing team. After winning the Carabao Cup, the Cityzens will be aiming to keep the machine rolling and build up momentum for the end of the Premier League campaign.<\/p>\n

Read More:\u00a0<\/strong>Chelsea vs Manchester City Predicted Lineups<\/a><\/p>\n

Chelsea vs Manchester City Confirmed Lineups & Team News<\/h2>\n

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Chelsea Team News<\/h3>\n

The injury news for both squads is taken from the latest updates on PremierInjuries<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The attack is lacking in healthy options as the depth trio of Jamie Gittens, Estevao, and Jamie Bynoe-Gittens are all ruled out of this one and are unlikely to feature at all over the rest of the season. Mykhailo Mudryk is also suspended indefinitely.<\/p>\n

There are some late decisions to be made which could change the eleven. Most notably, Rob Sanchez is on the return path after suffering a head injury against Nottingham Forest, him being back in training would indicate that he’s eligible to start here.<\/p>\n

Chelsea Confirmed Lineup<\/h3>\n

(3-5-2\/4-2-3-1)<\/p>\n

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  • GK – Rob Sanchez<\/li>\n
  • CB – Wes Fofana<\/li>\n
  • CB – Levi Colwill<\/li>\n
  • CB\u00a0 or LB – Jorrel Hato<\/li>\n
  • RB – Malo Gusto<\/li>\n
  • LB or LW – Marc Cucurella<\/li>\n
  • CM – Reece James<\/li>\n
  • CM – Moises Caicedo<\/li>\n
  • AM – Enzo Fernandez<\/li>\n
  • AM – Cole Palmer<\/li>\n
  • ST – Joao Pedro<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Subs:\u00a0<\/strong>Jorgensen, Acheampong, Tosin, Chalobah, Essugo, Andrey Santos, Pedro neto, Alejandro Garnacho, Liam Delap<\/p>\n

    Manchester City Team News<\/h3>\n

    There is a relatively clean bill of health for Guardiola to work with. His only doubt is a key one however, as Rodri has been sidelined recently. The midfielder is a key part of what City try to do and his absence is always notable regardless of who gets brought in to try and replicate his work on the pitch.<\/p>\n

    Manchester City Confirmed Lineup<\/h3>\n

    (4-1-4-1)<\/p>\n

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    • GK – James Trafford<\/li>\n
    • RB – Matheus Nunes<\/li>\n
    • CB – Abdukodir Khusanov<\/li>\n
    • CB – Marc Guehi<\/li>\n
    • LB – Nico O’Reilly<\/li>\n
    • DM – Rodri<\/li>\n
    • CM\/AM – Bernardo Silva<\/li>\n
    • W – Antoine Semenyo<\/li>\n
    • W – Jeremy Foku<\/li>\n
    • AM – Omar Marmoush<\/li>\n
    • ST – Erling Haaland<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Subs:\u00a0<\/strong>Donnarumma, Ruben Dias, Reijnders, Stones, Ake, Kovacic, Rayan Cherki, Savinho, Fiden<\/p>\n

      Featured Image Credit<\/strong><\/p>\n

      IMAGO \/ Newspix<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      These are the Chelsea vs Manchester City confirmed lineups and latest team news for the FA Cup final. The Blues haven’t beaten Pep Guardiola’s charges since the UEFA Champions League final back in 2021, sometimes grabbing draws but often being outclassed by their fellow blue-jersey-wearing team. After winning the Carabao Cup, the Cityzens will be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":653818,"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":[11,8432,17,30,1831],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea","category-fa-cup","category-manchester-city","category-news","category-starting-line-up"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669699","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=669699"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669754,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669699\/revisions\/669754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}