{"id":83,"date":"2019-03-01T09:50:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T09:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/2019\/03\/01\/chelsea-team-news-confirmed-xi-to-face-arsenal-as-eden-hazard-plays-false-nine-again\/"},"modified":"2019-03-01T09:50:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T09:50:12","slug":"chelsea-team-news-confirmed-xi-to-face-arsenal-as-eden-hazard-plays-false-nine-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea team news: Confirmed XI to face Arsenal as Eden Hazard plays false nine again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea can take a significant step towards Champions League qualification with victory over Arsenal at the Emirates on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Three points would see the Blues climb above Tottenham into third and create a nine-point gap to the Gunners.<\/p>\n<p>However, Maurizio Sarri&#8217;s men have claimed just one win from their previous three Premier League games and their 2-1 victory over Newcastle last weekend was far from convincing.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to live commentary from the Emirates on talkSPORT, kick-off 5.30pm.<\/p>\n<h2>Chelsea team news<\/h2>\n<p>Ruben Loftus-Cheek is the only player missing through injury as the Blues name an unchanged line-up from the Newcastle win.<\/p>\n<p>That means Eden Hazard continues up front in a false nine role and former Arsenal man Olivier Giroud starts on the bench.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chelsea XI:\u00a0<\/strong>Arrizabalaga, Azpilicueta, Rudiger, Luiz, Alonso, Kante, Jorginho, Kovacic, Pedro, Hazard, Willian.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Subs:<\/strong> Barkley, Caballero, Giroud, Hudson-Odoi, Christensen, Emerson Palmieri, Ampadu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea can take a significant step towards Champions League qualification with victory over Arsenal at the Emirates on Saturday evening. Three points would see the Blues climb above Tottenham into third and create a nine-point gap to the Gunners. However, Maurizio Sarri&#8217;s men have claimed just one win from their previous three Premier League games&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}