{"id":6283,"date":"2026-05-09T05:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T05:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=6283"},"modified":"2026-05-09T05:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T05:22:08","slug":"chelsea-xi-vs-liverpool-predicted-lineup-and-team-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=6283","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea XI vs Liverpool \u2013 Predicted lineup and team news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_79\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><strong>Chelsea travel to Anfield on Saturday, aiming to avoid a historic seventh consecutive league defeat.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Blues occupy ninth place and are mathematically out of the race for the top five. Interim manager Calum McFarlane wants to build confidence before next weekend\u2019s FA Cup final. Chelsea have failed to win since early March during a disastrous run of form. However, they remain within four points of sixth-placed Bournemouth in the standings.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea have won just one of their last ten league visits to Anfield. The visitors are aiming to complete a league double over Liverpool for the first time since 2014. They won the reverse fixture 2\u20131 at Stamford Bridge back in October. McFarlane believes his young squad must show more resilience to stop their current slide. The interim boss has urged his players to find form before heading to Wembley.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Chelsea team news<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Calum McFarlane delivered an encouraging update on Reece James and Levi Colwill this week. Both defenders have trained fully and are in contention to start the match at Anfield. In their absence lately, the Chelsea backline has conceded in thirteen consecutive league games. Jo\u00e3o Pedro remains the club\u2019s most clinical outlet with fifteen league goals this season. He has been directly involved in seven of the Blues\u2019 last nine Premier League strikes.<\/p>\n<p>Filip Jorgensen will start in goal after Robert Sanchez was ruled out with a head injury. Jesse Derry will also miss the remainder of the season following a heavy blow to the head. Pedro Neto and Alejandro Garnacho are both carrying knocks and are unlikely to feature. Jo\u00e3o Pedro is chasing his twentieth goal of the season in all competitions on Saturday.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Chelsea predicted lineup<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Chelsea predicted XI:<\/strong> Jorgensen; James, Colwill, Chalobah, Cucurella; Santos, Caicedo, Lavia; Fernandez; Pedro, Delap.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>When will the match kick off?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The fixture at Anfield is scheduled to kick off at 12:30 BST on Saturday, 9 May 2026.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>How to watch Liverpool vs Chelsea?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Fans in the United Kingdom can watch the game live on TNT Sports 1. Streaming is also available through the HBO Max app or website.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Read more-\u00a0Liverpool boost as Slot issues injury update ahead of Chelsea clash<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>See Also-\u00a0Howe insists Gordon \u2018committed\u2019 to Newcastle amid Bayern talks<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Follow the Football Faithful on Social Media:<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Facebook | Instagram | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FootyFaithful_\">Twitter<\/a> | YouTube | TikTok<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea travel to Anfield on Saturday, aiming to avoid a historic seventh consecutive league defeat&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}