{"id":558816,"date":"2025-11-09T06:38:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T06:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/558816\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T06:38:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T06:38:25","slug":"chelsea-v-wolves-team-news-james-benched-delap-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/558816\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea v Wolves team news: James benched, Delap starts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what is becoming quite a common occurrence these days, we\u2019ve got a 20:00 GMT kick-off to round off Saturday\u2019s Premier League action.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea welcome managerless Wolverhampton Wanderers to Stamford Bridge \u2013 although the visitors may not be leaderless for much longer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c1d09zwl153o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as they close in on appointing Rob Edwards as head coach.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Blues can leap from eighth to second with victory this evening. Wolves, eight points adrift of safety, will remain 20th regardless of the result.<\/p>\n<p>TEAM NEWS<\/p>\n<p>If we\u2019re comparing the Chelsea line-up to midweek, there are eight changes for the hosts.<\/p>\n<p>But as a better gauge, this is more or less the same side that Enzo Maresca sent out at Tottenham Hotspur last weekend \u2013 with one exception.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reece James<\/strong> drops to the bench after two 90-minute run-outs in the last week, so in comes <strong>Liam Delap<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Delap starts his first match since August, having been out through injury and suspension since then.<\/p>\n<p>A recall for the former Ipswich Town striker will presumably see <strong>Joao Pedro<\/strong> drop into the \u201910\u2019 role, with <strong>Enzo Fernandez<\/strong> moving further back into midfield, where James was operating in Gameweek 10.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Estevao<\/strong> is again only among the substitutes, as are the budget-friendly <strong>Josh Acheampong<\/strong> and <strong>Marc Guiu.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As for the visitors, interim boss James Collins puts his own stamp on the team by making four alterations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joao Gomes, Andre, Hwang Hee-Chan<\/strong> and <strong>Jackson Tchatchoua<\/strong> come into the side, with<strong> Marshall Munetsi, Jhon Arias <\/strong>and <strong>Ki-Jana Hoever<\/strong> dropping to the bench.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emmanuel Agbadou<\/strong> is suspended.<\/p>\n<p>LINE-UPS<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chelsea XI<\/strong>: Sanchez, Gusto, Fofana, Chalobah, Cucurella, Caicedo, Fernandez, Pedro Neto, Joao Pedro, Garnacho, Delap.<\/p>\n<p>Subs: Jorgensen, Tosin, Hato, Acheampong, James, Andrey Santos, Gittens, Estevao, Guiu.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wolverhampton Wanderers XI<\/strong>: Johnstone, Tchatchoua, S Bueno, Krejci, Toti, H Bueno, Andre, Gomes, Bellegarde, Hwang, Strand Larsen<\/p>\n<p>Subs: Sa, Munetsi, Arias, Wolfe, Arokodare, Mosquera, Chirewa, Hoever, Mane.<\/p>\n<p>LIVE GAMEWEEK PAGE!<\/p>\n<p>New to Fantasy Football Scout is the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk\/fpl\/live-gameweek\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Live Gameweek page<\/a>, which you can see on the side menu.<\/p>\n<p>Here you can follow the scores, watch the defensive contribution (DC) points roll in, see who the leading players are for xG and more as the games play out, as seen below:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-167-1024x585.png\" alt=\"King James Delap\" class=\"wp-image-151177 webpexpress-processed\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In what is becoming quite a common occurrence these days, we\u2019ve got a 20:00 GMT kick-off to round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,26893,178317,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764,153124],"class_list":{"0":"post-558816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-chelsea-team-news","10":"tag-chelsea-v-wolves-team-news","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-northern-ireland","15":"tag-scotland","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-wales","19":"tag-wolves-team-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115518368247809993","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}