TEAM NEWS: COVENTRY CITY V CHELSEA
Ricardo Carvalho and Michael Essien return to the Chelsea
bench but Guus Hiddink names an unchanged starting line-up.
The FA Cup is being taken seriously with Didier Drogba again
leading the attack, flanked by Salomon Kalou and Florent
Malouda who continues in the absence of Nicolas Anelka.
Ashley Cole retains his place and Frank Lampard equals Eddie
McCreadie's Chelsea career total of 410 appearances which
places him seventh equal in our all-time list.
Coventry replace injured left-back Danny Fox with Marcus Hall
and move Freddy Eastwood from attack to the left of midfield
to make space for the return of masked man Leon Best up front.
Former Crystal Palace and Birmingham striker Clinton Morrison
is also back in attack having started on the bench midweek.
Chelsea will line-up in a 4-3-3 formation as follows:
1 Petr Cech
17 José Bosingwa
33 Alex
26 John Terry (c)
3 Ashley Cole
13 Michael Ballack
12 John Mikel Obi
8 Frank Lampard
21 Salomon Kalou
11 Didier Drogba
15 Florent Malouda
Substitutes: 40 Hilario, 35 Juliano Belletti, 42 Michael
Mancienne, 6 Ricardo Carvalho, 5 Michael Essien, 18 Ricardo
Quaresma, 9 Franco Di Santo.
Coventry are expected to line-up in the following 4-4-2
formation:
Westwood; Wright, Dann (c), Turner, Hall; Henderson,
Gunnarsson, Doyle, Eastwood; Morrison, Best.
Subs: Marshall, Ward, Osbourne, McPake, Beuzelin, Thornton,
Simpson.
The referee is Steve Bennett.
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