{"id":239525,"date":"2026-04-20T18:48:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/chalobah-and-garnacho-start-predicted-chelsea-xi-vs-brighton\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T18:48:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:48:27","slug":"chalobah-and-garnacho-start-predicted-chelsea-xi-vs-brighton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/chalobah-and-garnacho-start-predicted-chelsea-xi-vs-brighton\/","title":{"rendered":"Chalobah and Garnacho start: Predicted Chelsea XI vs Brighton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/topics\/chelsea\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"Chelsea news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chelsea<\/a> will look to bounce back from back-to-back <a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/tag\/premier-league\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"21\" title=\"Premier League\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Premier League<\/a> defeats at home when they take on Brighton &amp; Hove Albion tomorrow at the Amex Stadium at 20:00 local time in their matchday 34 meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Liam Rosenior\u2019s men need to pick up maximum points and have little room for error if they are to play in next year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/tag\/champions-league\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"20\" title=\"Champions League\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Champions League<\/a> but the challenge against the Seagulls will be far from easy. That said, here is how they may line-up for the game.<\/p>\n<div class=\"qxbna69e67c3d6bc48\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rememore.com\/hair-transplant-in-turkey#utm_source=footbal-talk&amp;utm_id=footbal-talk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-225247\" src=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FootballTalk_New_Chapter-rememore.png\" alt=\"Rememore new hair\" width=\"400\" height=\"333\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>Goalkeeper<\/strong> \u2013 Robert Sanchez is expected to retain his place in between the sticks for the Blues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defenders<\/strong> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/tag\/reece-james\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"36\" title=\"Reece James\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reece James<\/a> remains injured so Malo Gusto is in contention to play as the right back once more, while Marc Cucurella may also continue to feature on the left side of the back four. Wesley Fofana, on the other hand, could be employed in the heart of the backline, and partnering with Trevoh Chalobah, who might come into the team at Jorrel Hato\u2019s expense.<\/p>\n<h2>Garnacho replaces Estevao<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Midfielders<\/strong> \u2013 Enzo Fernandez returned from a club-imposed suspension in the last match and could continue to feature in the double pivot against Brighton &amp; Hove Albion as well, alongside Moises Caicedo. Cole Palmer, meanwhile, could be used in the number 10 position.<\/p>\n<p>Estevao Willian was injured in the last match, which means Pedro Neto could play on the right flank, and the Brazilian teenager\u2019s replacement in the squad is expected to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.in\/football\/story\/_\/id\/46097291\/manchester-united-chelsea-40m-alejandro-garnacho-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a340 million summer signing<\/a> Alejandro Garnacho, who might be the left winger.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Forward<\/strong> \u2013 With Joao Pedro unlikely to make it in time from a fitness problem versus his former side, Liam Delap could lead the line for the visitors once more.<\/p>\n<p>Here is how the Blues\u2019 team may look on paper.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fotmob.com\/api\/data\/lineup-builder\/team?players=789571:Robert%20S%C3%A1nchez,1197250:Malo%20Gusto,917802:Wesley%20Fofana,793907:Trevoh%20Chalobah,873289:Marc%20Cucurella,1137668:Mois%C3%A9s%20Caicedo,1137705:Enzo%20Fern%C3%A1ndez,843040:Pedro%20Neto,1096353:Cole%20Palmer,1203665:Alejandro%20Garnacho,1113903:Liam%20Delap&amp;formation=4-2-3-1&amp;teamId=8455&amp;showTeamBadges=false&amp;showCountryBadges=false&amp;lang=en&amp;currency=EUR&amp;measurementSystem=metric\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!--mvp-post-tags--><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!--posts-nav-link--><\/p>\n<div class=\"mvp-org-wrap\" itemprop=\"publisher\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Organization\">\n<div class=\"mvp-org-logo\" itemprop=\"logo\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/new-logo.png\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/new-logo.png\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><!--mvp-org-logo--><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Football Talk | Premier League News\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><!--mvp-org-wrap-->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/football-talk.co.uk\/231813\/chalobah-and-garnacho-start-predicted-chelsea-xi-vs-brighton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea will look to bounce back from back-to-back Premier League defeats at home when they take on Brighton &amp; Hove Albion tomorrow at the Amex Stadium at 20:00 local time in their matchday 34 meeting. Liam Rosenior\u2019s men need to pick up maximum points and have little room for error if they are to play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6807],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-239525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leagues-cups"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}