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October 27, 2015

Mikel, Oscar start for Chelsea

Mikel, Oscar start for Chelsea

Delightful… Chelsea’s Nigerian midfielder John Mikel Obi celebrate with team-mates

Jose Mourinho makes three changes to the team who started on Saturday, bringing in Baba Rahman, John Mikel Obi and Oscar.

Baba replaces Cesar Azpilicueta, who is named on the bench, while Mikel and Oscar come in for the midfield pair of Cesc Fabregas and Nemanja Matic. The latter is serving a one-match suspension after his red card at West Ham.

It is a strong team captained by John Terry. Asmir Begovic makes his first return to the stadium he called home until this summer. The bench includes youngsters Kenedy, Bertrand Traore and Ruben Loftus-Cheek, as well as Loic Remy who is back after injury.

Chelsea are expected to line up in the following 4-2-3-1 formation:

Begovic; Zouma, Cahill, Terry (c), Baba Rahman; Ramires, Mikel; Willian, Oscar, Hazard; Diego Costa.

Substitutes: Amelia, Azpilicueta, Djilobodji, Traore, Kenedy, Loftus-Cheek, Remy .

Today’s referee is Kevin Friend.