At 22:00 Beijing time on October 2, the seventh round of the 2021-22 Premier League season will stage a focus battle, and the Blues Chelsea, who have just returned from the Champions League, will sit at home to meet Saints Southampton.
After the first six rounds of the Premier League, Chelsea have accumulated 13 points with 4 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss, and are currently ranked 3rd in the Premier League table. Scoring 12 goals and conceding 2 goals in 6 rounds of matches shows that the team is relatively stable on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends under the leadership of coach Tuchel. Recently, however, Chelsea have suddenly fallen into a slump, first losing 0-1 in the Premier League to Manchester City, and then losing 1-0 to Juventus in the Champions League, suffering two consecutive defeats. This round against Southampton, coach Tuchel naturally hopes to get out of the slump, reverse the decline and return to the previous highlight state.
The overall strength of the opponent Southampton is average, the performance of the first 6 rounds of the new season is also very sluggish, 6 rounds of 4 draws and 2 losses, no victory, currently accumulated 4 points, only ranked 16th in the Premier League table, deep in the relegation circle can not extricate themselves. For Chelsea, to meet such a team in the downturn is naturally a great opportunity to reverse the decline and boost morale. Despite the saints' average strength, Tuchel is expected to send as many of his strongest starters as possible.
In the goalkeeper position, it is natural that the main goalkeeper Edouard Mendy will continue to defend the Chelsea goal; in the backline, Tuchel will naturally continue to play the 3 centre-back formation he is most familiar with, and the 37-year-old is expected to start the 3 centre-backs will be Christensen, Rudiger and the 37-year-old Brazilian defender Thiago Silva.
In terms of midfield, it is not surprising that coach Tuchel will sacrifice 4 midfielders to sit in the seat, two players as double backs, responsible for the interception and stealing of the midfield, of course, but also take into account the transition between attack and defense, play an important pivotal role. The other two players will be separated on both wings, playing the role of full-back on the left and right sides, and can play the role of full-back when attacking, and return directly to the position of full-back when the team retreats. Chelsea's double back should be made up of frustrated new midfielder Saul and main striker Jorginho. It is worth mentioning that after Saul joined the Blues from Atletico this summer, he only got two appearances and was very disappointed, this game, he replaced the absent main player Kante, need to prove himself as soon as possible. The two midfielders in charge of pulling the edge should be Chilwell and Azpilicueta.
In the forward line, Belgian striker Lukaku will naturally continue to be entrusted with the heavy responsibility, serving as an offensive fulcrum in the front field and responsible for destroying the city; and the Belgian "little devil" should form a frontal partner with the Belgian "little devil", which should be the German striker Werner who has been suspended in the Champions League.
Based on the above analysis, the last 11 people expected for Chelsea's start against the Saints are: Eduard Mendy; Christensen, Rudiger, Thiago Silva; Chilve, Saul, Jorginho, Azpilicueta; Lukaku and Werner