Chelsea face Club America in their first pre-season outing and the team’s confirmed news comes from Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium.
Club America is already underway in its 2022/23 season, having played three games (1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss), while Chelsea are just beginning preparations for their first game of the season. Premier League in three weeks against Everton.
Thomas Tuchel expects an intense battle against the MX League as a whole, and admitted in his pre-match press conference: “I don’t have a complete view of the Mexican league to be very honest, but of course we now analyze this rival. .
“At this time of the preseason is also the time to focus on us and give full support to our players and our situation.
“Club America’s league is already playing, so they are in a different physical situation to ours and they are usually a very physical team, very aggressive. We will see with big names and great personalities how this will turn out but we expect an intense match “.
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Here’s the confirmed news from the Las Vegas team as Chelsea take on Club America.
Chelsea
XI holder: Kepa, Chalobah, Silva, Sarr, Hudson-Odoi, Barkley, Gallagher, Chilwell, Ziyech, Havertz, Kenedy
Benches: Bettinelli, Alonso, Ampadu, Azpilicueta, James, Mount, Pulisic, Batshuayi, Werner
Club America
Starting XI: Ochoa, Sanchez, Valdez, Caceres, Reis, Aquino, Dos Santos, Damm, Fidalgo, Layun, Martin
Bench: Jimenez, Sanchez, S. Martinez, Araujo, Campos, Fuentes, R. Martinez, Moreno, Lara, Valdes, Zendejas, Rodriguez
Thiago Silva leads Chelsea at the back, and joins Malang Sarr and Trevoh Chalobah.
Kepa Arrizabalaga is about to send the ball in, while Marcus Bettinelli is on the bench.
Kai Havertz and Hakim Ziyech are in attack with Kenedy. Conor Gallagher, Callum Hudson-Odoi and Ross Barkley also receive the lead, as does Ben Chilwell.
Christian Pulisic starts on the bench. It’s a strong bench for Tuchel, with Mason Mount, Reece James and Timo Werner all named.
Billy Gilmour, Harvey Vale, Tino Anjorin and Edouard Mendy are four who do not participate in the squad of the day, as well as Raheem Sterling, Kalidou Koulibaly and Armando Broja. Mateo Kovacic and Levi Colwill are also lost.