Chelsea-Wrexham is a friendly and is played on the Italian night between Wednesday and Thursday at 00:30: news, formations, predictions, live TV and streaming
Over €500 million spent between the two market sessions was not enough for Chelsea to avoid one of the most resounding flops in football history. The Blues are coming off a season that to call disastrous is an understatement, ending in the right side of the Premier League table. And therefore out of practically everything.
It will be up to Mauricio Pochettino, who is returning to England after his parentheses in France at Psg, to restore some order where up to now there has been total chaos. A fiasco of such proportions could only imply a real revolution: in the first weeks of the market, 11 players, between loans and disposals, left Stamford Bridge. And others will do so shortly, no longer being part of the Argentine coach’s project. One of these is Romelu Lukaku, who is expected to return to Italy soon: not to Inter, but to Juventus, having become the Bianconeri’s first choice should they sell Vlahovic. For the past few days Pochettino and his men have been in the United States, where they will play all five pre-season friendlies before their Premier League debut. The first test is scheduled in Chapel Hill against Wrexham, an English club that has just been promoted to League Two after a 15-year ordeal in the semi-professional football leagues.
The formation that the former Psg coach will send out will certainly be experimental, but at least two of the new signings should play. We are talking about Malo Gusto, Portuguese full-back arrived from Lyon, and Nicolas Jackson, Senegalese striker revelation of the last La Liga with the Villarreal jersey. Only bench, instead, for Christopher Nkunku: the Frenchman was taken from Leipzig after a sensational station.
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The Prediction
Pochettino will want to get off on the right foot in his new professional adventure and a comfortable success from the Blues is conceivable. In the opener against Wrexham Chelsea should score between three and six goals.
The Chelsea-Wrexham line-up probables
- CHELSEA (4-3-3): Kepa; Gusto, Chalobah, Thiago Silva, Chilwell; Gallagher, Enzo Fernandez, Chukwuemeka; Sterling, Jackson, Mudryk.
- WREXHAM (3-5-2): Foster; Boyle, Tozer, O’Connell; Barnett, Young, Lee, Cannon, Mendy; Mullin, Dalby.
POSSIBLE RESULT: 3-1
