{"id":672730,"date":"2026-07-27T09:41:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T13:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=672730"},"modified":"2026-07-27T09:41:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T13:41:26","slug":"chelsea-predicted-lineup-vs-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/07\/27\/chelsea-predicted-lineup-vs-sydney\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Predicted Lineup vs Western Sydney Wanderers for July 28"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a Chelsea predicted lineup for their pre-season bow when they take on Western Sydney Wanderers in the Sydney Cup. The Blues are travelling Australia and Asia during their preparations for the new season with a travelling squad that has yet to include some of their World Cup competitors and new signing Morgan Rogers. With this first chance to see Xabi Alonso’s setup, fans are sure to be excited for this early morning fixture.<\/p>\n

Read More:\u00a0<\/strong>Projected Chelsea Squad for 26\/27 as of July 22<\/a><\/p>\n

Chelsea Predicted Lineup & Team News vs Western Sydney Wanderers<\/h2>\n

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Travelling Squad<\/h3>\n

The club announced the official list of players who are on the tour, in goal the options are Rob Sanchez, Filip Jorgensen, Ted Curd, and Teddy Sharman-Lowe. The first two shared\u00a0 starting responsobilities at times during the previous term.<\/p>\n

Defensive options in the middle are Josh Acheampong, Levi Colwill, Mamadou Sarr, Aaron Anselmino, Wes Fofana, Tayo Subuloye, and if needed Calvin Diakite or Jorrel Hato. New signing Marco Palestra is a right-back with Acheampong a possible replacement. At left-back, the team has Hato, Landon Emenalo, and Diakite as potential starters.<\/p>\n

Read More:\u00a0<\/strong>Two New Chelsea Signings Suffer Injuries Early in Pre-Season<\/a><\/p>\n

In midfield, likely as a pivot the names brought are Reggie Walsh, Reggie Watson, Madhi Nicoll-Jazuli, Romeo Lavia, and Dario Essugo.<\/p>\n

There is a bounty of attackers with striking options Joao Pedro, Liam Delap, and Dastan Satpeyev being supported by Jamie Gittens, Ryan Kavuma-McQueen, Omari Kellyman, Cole Palmer, and Estevao.<\/p>\n

Chelsea Potential Tactics<\/h3>\n

According to Kieran Gill<\/a>, the team have played a 4-2-3-1 in behind-closed-doors friendlies against Bromley and Crawley. This is a similar setup to the previous few years but likely comes with some twists in how the full-backs move and whether an attacker drifts wide or central.<\/p>\n

Chelsea Predicted Lineup vs Western Sydney Wanderers<\/h3>\n

GK – Filip Jorgensen<\/p>\n

LB – Landon Emenalo<\/p>\n

CB – Mamadou Sarr<\/p>\n

CB – Josh Acheampong<\/p>\n

RB – Marco Palestra<\/p>\n

DM – Dario Essugo<\/p>\n

DM – Reggie Walsh<\/p>\n

AM – Estevao<\/p>\n

AM – Cole Palmer<\/p>\n

AM – Ryan Kavuma-McQueen<\/p>\n

ST – Liam Delap<\/p>\n

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

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

This is a Chelsea predicted lineup for their pre-season bow when they take on Western Sydney Wanderers in the Sydney Cup. The Blues are travelling Australia and Asia during their preparations for the new season with a travelling squad that has yet to include some of their World Cup competitors and new signing Morgan Rogers. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":666080,"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":[11,30,1831],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea","category-news","category-starting-line-up"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672730","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=672730"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":672744,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672730\/revisions\/672744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}