Thomas Tuchel’s Chelsea facet host London rivals Arsenal at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday night, with the highest 4 race using on the outcome.

Simply days after securing their place within the FA Cup closing, the place they will play Liverpool, Chelsea have the prospect to go 11 factors away from Mikel Arteta’s group with a recreation in hand.

A win would nearly assure Chelsea are in subsequent season’s Champions League, a contest they received final 12 months however exited on the quarter-final stage this time round.

Arsenal, then again, have been languishing exterior the Champions League locations for a number of years now and even missed out on European soccer all-together this season regardless of the introduction of the Europa Convention League.

Nonetheless, they’re nonetheless within the operating for fourth place within the Premier League, however three defeats on the bounce have seen them slip from pole place all the way down to sixth. It is nonetheless in their very own fingers, however they’ve made it far tougher for themselves.

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Whereas targets from Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Mason Mount secured a 2-0 win over Crystal Palace at Wembley for Chelsea on the weekend, Arsenal fell to a disappointing 1-0 defeat to struggling Southampton, who picked up their first league win since February towards the Gunners.

Regardless of this, Chelsea have seemed unconvincing at residence this season, shedding to the likes of Actual Madrid, Brentford and Manchester Metropolis, whereas dropping factors to Man Utd, Burnley, Everton, Brighton and Liverpool at Stamford Bridge.

Nonetheless, the Blues will face an injury-hit Arsenal facet who’re lacking a number of key gamers. Takehiro Tomiyasu is unlikely to make his comeback, whereas Thomas Partey, Kieran Tierney and Alexandre Lacazette will miss out.

As for Chelsea, Mateo Kovacic was substituted within the first-half towards Crystal Palace and shall be sidelined for a number of weeks in accordance with Thomas Tuchel. Callum Hudson-Odoi and Ben Chilwell stay out, whereas Tuchel admits Romelu Lukaku and Jorginho have suffered from fatigue and health.

Timo Werner may very well be rested after enjoying towards each Actual Madrid and Crystal Palace.

One shock Arteta might make is enjoying Bukayo Saka at left-back, though he is unlikely to danger that towards Chelsea.

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