TEAM NEWS: WEST BROMWICH ALBION V CHELSEA

Roberto Di Matteo has taken the midweek internationals into account with plenty of rotation in today’s team selection.

Juan Mata, Oscar and Ramires, who all played the other side of the Atlantic midweek, are on the bench and there are starts for Daniel Sturridge and Victor Moses in wide positions, and Oriol Romeu in midfield.

Cesar Azpilicueta and Ryan Bertrand keep their places at full-back and David Luiz, who also played in the USA on Wednesday, takes the place of injured John Terry.

For West Brom, Gareth McAuley has failed to recover from injury and Chris Brunt moves to the bench. Zoltan Gera and Peter Odemwingie come in.

Chelsea are expected to line up in the following 4-2-3-1 formation:

1 Petr Cech (c)
28 Cesar Azpilicueta
24 Gary Cahill
4 David Luiz
34 Ryan Bertrand
6 Oriol Romeu
12 John Mikel Obi
17 Eden Hazard
13 Victor Moses
23 Daniel Sturridge
9 Fernando Torres

Substitutes: 22 Ross Turnbull, 2 Branislav Ivanovic, 3 Ashley Cole, 7 Ramires, 11 Oscar, 21 Marko Marin, 10 Juan Mata.

West Brom are expected to line up in the following 4-2-3-1 formation:

Myhill; Jones, Tamas, Olsson, Ridgewell; Mulumbu, Yacob; Morrison, Gera, Odemwingie; Long.

Subs: Daniels, Reid, Popov, Dorrans, Brunt (c), Rosenborg, Fortune.

The referee is Michael Oliver.

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