{"id":167255,"date":"2025-08-22T19:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T19:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/167255\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T19:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T19:32:11","slug":"west-ham-united-vs-chelsea-premier-league-live-blog-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/167255\/","title":{"rendered":"West Ham United vs. Chelsea, Premier League: Live blog; highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Welcome to game two of the brand new season, on the far side of town, under the Friday Night Lights. Hopefully we\u2019ve all got a bit of Coach Taylor in us tonight and we take all three points back home with us to the West side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Enzo Maresca has made a couple changes from opening day, including a fit again Tosin coming back in for young Josh Acheampong and, in a surprise move, both Jo\u00e3o Pedro and Liam Delap starting instead of either Est\u00eav\u00e3o or Jamie Gittens. That\u2019s different, and the first time we\u2019re going to see those two play extended minutes together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><strong>UDPATE: <\/strong>Cole Palmer has picked up an injury in pre-match warmups and will be replaced by Est\u00eav\u00e3o in the starting lineup\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><strong>West Ham starting XI:<\/strong><br \/>Hermansen | Wan-Bissaka, Todibo, Kilman, Aguerd, Diouf, Sou\u010dek, Ward-Prowse, Paquet\u00e1, Bowen (c), F\u00fcllkrug<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Substitutes from: Areola, Walker-Peters, Wilson, Mavropanos, Rodr\u00edguez, Scarles, Potts, Irving, Marshall<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><strong>Chelsea starting lineup (4-2-3-1):<\/strong><br \/>S\u00e1nchez | Cucurella, Tosin, Chalobah, Gusto | Enzo, Caicedo (c) | Jo\u00e3o Pedro, Palmer Est\u00eav\u00e3o, Neto | Delap<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Substitutes from: J\u00f6rgensen, Acheampong, Fofana, Hato, James, Essugo, Santos, Est\u00eav\u00e3o, Gittens<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><strong>Date \/ Time: <\/strong>Friday, August 22, 2025, 20.00 BST; 3pm EDT; 12:30am IST (next day)<br \/><strong>Venue:<\/strong> London Stadium, East London<br \/><strong>Referee:<\/strong> Michael Oliver (on pitch); Jarred Gillett (VAR)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><strong>On TV:<\/strong> Sky Sports Main Event (UK); USA, Universo (USA); Star Sports Select HD1 (India); SuperSport Premier League, Canal+ Sport 3 (NGA); <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livesoccertv.com\/match\/chelsea-vs-west-ham-united\/17zlj#5297164\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">elsewhere<\/a><br \/><strong>Streaming: <\/strong>Sky Go (UK); NBC Sports Live, Telemundo Deportes En Vivo (USA); Disney+ Hotstar (India); DStv Now (NGA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Be excellent to each other, and party on, dudes!<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"duet--article--comments-link _1jdgahs9\" href=\"http:\/\/weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com\/premier-league\/161293\/west-ham-united-vs-chelsea-premier-league-confirmed-lineups-how-to-watch#comments\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">49 Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to game two of the brand new season, on the far side of town, under the Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":167256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[88819,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-167255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-chelsea-fc-premier-league","9":"tag-soccer","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115074088589792059","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}