Chelsea fans pick their starting Xl vs Spurs with Sanchez starting and Palmer on the wing | OneFootball

Chelsea fans have spoken, or at least some of them have, ahead of their game against Tottenham in the Premier League later today.

The Blues are rounding up the weekend’s fixtures this afternoon for the 4.30pm kick off against London rivals Spurs away from home.

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Enzo Maresca will be looking at the league right now and how other teams ‘up the top’ are folding over and in a bit of a rut. It’s only really Liverpool and Arsenal who are showing any kind of solid form at the moment, as well as Chelsea themselves of course. The Italian must be on cloud nine right now looking at all of this, and they have a massive opportunity to see things get even greater today as well.

Spurs are off the back of defeat as well, losing 1-0 to Bournemouth on the week, and they are more than there for the taking.

Maresca must go for blood

Chelsea have a huge chance here to really increase the pressure on Liverpool and Arsenal, even though Marescas is still refusing to put Chelsea in the title talk right now.

He will have his starting Xl in his mind now, but the Blues fans have a different idea. They want to see Cole Palmer back on the right wing, allowing all three of Romeo Lavia, Moises Caicedo, and Enzo Fernandez start in the midfield together.

The community at We Ain’t Got No History have voted for their best starting Xl for th Spurs game, and this is what they have voted for:

4-2-3-1 (82%) Sánchez (66%) | Cucurella (96%), Colwill (98%), Badiashile (54%), Gusto (60%) | Lavia (71%), Caicedo (97%) | Neto (83%), Enzo (78%), Palmer (97%) | Jackson (95%).

I’d be very surprised if we see this to be honest. Maresca is yet to put Palmer back on the wing and I think he prefers him centrally. I do think this would be our best starting Xl right now though and gets all our best players on the pitch together.