Chelsea are still half an hour away from kick off against RB Salzburg, but fans will need every minute to digest the team news that came out earlier this evening.
We had heard that Graham Potter had a penchant for trying players in new positions, but we didn’t expect to see oddities in his very first game.
The club has spent big on centre backs this summer, yet Potter’s team has just one player who has regularly played in a back 4 as a central defender – Thiago Silva.
The other personnel suggests it’s a 4, with Marc Cucurella on the left, Silva and perhaps Reece James in the middle, and Cesar Azpilicueta (or James) on the right.
For a game we expected to see Potter play very straight and just get a confidence boosting win on the board, it’s a pretty strong change of direction.
Wesley Fofana and Kalidou Koulibaly, after being signed this summer, will sit on the bench tonight.
