How Chelsea Could Line Up After Beating Liverpool to Caicedo and Lavia
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Chelsea boasts an impressive midfield of young talents after adding Moises Caicedo from Brighton and Romeo Lavia from Southampton, with the latter subject to medicals and an official announcement.
The Blues beat rivals, Liverpool, to both players after many twists and turns in what was a crazy saga in the midst of a highly contested opening game between them this past weekend.
Mauricio Pochettino's men were the better side. They were unlucky not to walk away with a win, at the same time, lucky not to have conceded two penalties after handballs from Nicolas Jackson and Ian Maatsen.
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FootballTheir next trip is an away trip across London to play West Ham in the derby, and we could see a debut for Caicedo and Lavia, possibly, if his transfer is registered before noon on Friday.
How Chelsea could line upPochettino lined Chelsea up in a 4-2-3-1 for the game against Liverpool, and it appeared as he changed to a 3-5-2 when he saw Liverpool's team, but he clarified to Football Londonafter the game that it was only a personnel change which saw Axel Disasi replace Mykhailo Mudryk, and the defender scored.
The Argentine manager said during pre-season he favoured the 4-2-3-1 formation and used it in most of the friendly games, and with two new midfielders and the injury to Christopher Nkunku, it could be time to go 4-3-3.
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