Aston Villa vs Chelsea

Graham Potter aims to make it five wins in a row as Chelsea's head coach against an out of form Aston Villa.

Graham Potter is aiming to make it five wins in a row as Chelsea head coach, and six unbeaten since replacing Thomas Tuchel in September. Potter will have to rotate following the terrible injury setback to Reece James which has wider repercussions than just this weekend but does pose questions over who fills that spot with Cesar Azplicueta performing well against Wolves. The Blues are aiming to make it five wins in a row under Graham Potter since he took charge in September.

Chelsea: Arrizabalaga, Chalobah, Thiago Silva, Cucurella, Mount, Loftus-Cheek, Kovacic, Chilwell, Havertz, Aubameyang, Sterling. Subs: Jorginho, Pulisic, Mendy, ...

It cost a lot more than I thought it was going to." He has rotated his squad to keep as many players involved as possible and there has been plenty of the tactical tinkering we saw at Brighton. Seems a fine man, be interesting to see if his pastoral, thoughtful approach will be given enough time to work at a club where they have traditionally brought in a flash manager for quick success. There has been some bad news though, with Reece James and Wesley Fofana lost to injury. Ollie Watkins, Danny Ings, Philippe Coutinho, Emi Buendia and Leon Bailey are a promising collection of attackers but there is little sense of how they piece together. Only Wolves have scored fewer goals than Aston Villa this term. "We have a big opportunity for a scalp today. Alan Smith: "What a nightmare for Tyrone Mings and Aston Villa. We know where we need to get better. The ball is deflected into their box, it balloons up in the air. Heroic stuff from the Chelsea custodian. Bailey has a freekick.

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Ruben Loftus-Cheek comes in instead, potentially on the right side with Mason Mount and Mateo Kovacic across the middle and Ben Chilwell on the left. It looks ...

[Kai Havertz](/en/teams/profile/kai-havertz) is the third player to be introduced, joining [Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang](/en/teams/profile/pierre-emerick-aubameyang) in attack. [Raheem Sterling](/en/teams/profile/raheem-sterling) was at right wing-back. [Reece James](/en/teams/profile/reece-james) confirmed to be out for around eight weeks with the knee injury he suffered in the midweek win at AC Milan in the Champions League.

Graham Potter's men look to consolidate their position in the top-4 while Steven Gerrard fights to see another day as Aston Villa's manager.

Aston Villa travels away from home twice facing Fulham and Newcastle United on the 21st and 29th of October respectively. The club is fresh from the 2-0 bashing of AC Milan at the San Siro and would look to extend their run of form. A revamped Chelsea outfit travels away from home battling it out with Aston Villa as Graham Potter looks to extend Chelsea’s astounding run of form in all competitions.

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Luiz floats in a ball into the box from the resulting free-kick, and Kepa comes off his line to punch it clear. Gallagher does really well down the right flank to completely bypass Young and whip a cross towards the back post. Chelsea There will be four minutes of stoppage time. The good news is that Mings is back on his feet, although he still doesn't look right. That's full-time here at Villa Park, and the home side once again have nothing to show for their efforts.