TEAM NEWS: BLACKBURN ROVERS V CHELSEA
Salomon Kalou is back in the starting line-up and will play on the left of an attack with
Didier Drogba and
Nicolas Anelka.
Michael Ballack is out injured so
Florent Malouda drops deeper into midfield with
Frank Lampard moving to the right.
Paulo Ferreira replaces
Yury Zhirkov at left-back and
Ross Turnbull starts his third game in a row in goal.
Jan Sebek, a 19-year-old Czech goalkeeper from the reserve team squad, is on the bench for the first time.
Blackburn make two changes in defence, Phil Jones coming in at centre-back and Martin Olsson dropping from midfield to left-back. El-Hadji Diouf comes in wide on the right of midfield.
Chelsea are expected to line up in the following 4-3-2-1 formation:
22
Ross Turnbull
2
Branislav Ivanovic
33 Alex
26
John Terry (c)
19
Paulo Ferreira
8
Frank Lampard
12
John Mikel Obi
15
Florent Malouda
39
Nicolas Anelka
21
Salomon Kalou
11
Didier Drogba
Substitutes: 50 Jan Sebek, 43 Jefrrey Bruma, 18
Yury Zhirkov, 24
Nemanja Matic, 10
Joe Cole, 20
Deco, 23
Daniel Sturridge.
Blackburn are expected to line up in the following 4-5-1 formation:
Brown; Salgado, Samba (c), Jones, Olsson; Diouf, Dunn, N'Zonzi, Andrews, Pedersen; Kalinić.
Substitutes: Bunn, Jacobsen, Chimbonda, Hoilett, Linganzi, Emerton, Roberts.
The referee is Steve Bennett