{"id":673445,"date":"2026-01-04T14:37:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T14:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/673445\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T14:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T14:37:19","slug":"chelsea-fans-preferred-lineup-against-manchester-city-lets-just-try-to-have-some-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/673445\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea fans\u2019 preferred lineup against Manchester City: Let\u2019s just try to have some fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">There\u2019s now a better than 50 per cent chance that we\u2019re going to have snow during tonight\u2019s match, so if nothing else, we get to have some fun, right? It\u2019s a free hit for the Blues, with no manager and no expectations of a result against title contenders Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The remit for interim head coach Calum McFarlane may be to play the sporting directors\u2019 favorites. Might they include both Cole Palmer and Est\u00eav\u00e3o and Jo\u00e3o Pedro, as they do for the WAGNH Community?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Joining that trio in attack is Pedro Neto, while in midfield, it\u2019s Andrey Santos deputizing for the suspended Mois\u00e9s Caicedo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s a bit less fun at the back with the uncertain status of both nominal left backs on the team, Marc Cucurella and Jorrel Hato. So it\u2019s Malo Gusto to step in once again, beating out Josh Acheampong (40%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So it\u2019s mostly the usual suspects, but snow makes everything better.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><strong>4-2-3-1 (64%)<\/strong><br \/>S\u00e1nchez (97%) | Gusto (72%), Chalobah (96%), Fofana (93%), James (98%) | Enzo (97%), Santos (67%) | Est\u00eav\u00e3o (78%), Palmer (99%), Neto (79%) | Jo\u00e3o Pedro (76%)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s now a better than 50 per cent chance that we\u2019re going to have snow during tonight\u2019s match,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,148622,393,4884,2465,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-673445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-chelsea-fc-premier-league","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115837340475662003","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673445","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=673445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}