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Chelsea face Leeds at Stamford Bridge in just over an hour, and the teams are in! It’s a big game under the lights.

Here are the full team line-ups for Leeds vs Chelsea (kick off at 19:30 GMT)

CHELSEA:

Chelsea’s team to face Leeds in the Premier League.

It’s an interesting selection for Liam Rosenior tonight as we’ve played twice in the last 7 days – but also have an FA Cup fixture on Friday night that gives the chance for some rotation.

We predicted he would go as full strength as possible for this one, and it appears that’s just what he’s done.

That means Robert Sanchez in goal, Marc Cucurella at left back, and Trevoh Chalobah at centre back. Wesley Fofana can’t handle a third game in a week, and interestingly it’s Josh Acheampong who steps in to replace him, ahead of Benoit Badiashile.

Reece James, who had a “small knock” on Tuesday, was expected back on Saturday and missed that, also isn’t in the squad tonight.

The midfield is as we’d expect – Andrey Santos and Moises Caicedo as the double pivot, Enzo Fernandez ahead.

Then Cole Palmer is on one side and Estevao the other – we’d imagine both have pretty free roles, and will interchange with Enzo too.

Joao Pedro leads the line.

In other news…

There’s been a lot of mockery and memes about Liam Rosenior since he took the Chelsea job – but they’re gradually fading away as the wins rack up. Another 3 points tonight will shut up another section of the doubters.

Cole Palmer returned from his groin injury in the first edition of this game, but it wasn’t enough to save Chelsea form a defeat. Both the attacker and the Blues had a tough period following that defeat. Perhaps tonight can see a reversal of all that?