Chelsea v Fulham: Premier League – live

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10 min Both teams have started brightly. Fulham may be playing a back five but that shouldn’t be mistaken for a parking of the bus.

8 min The camera cuts to Chelsea’s new signing Alejandro Garnacho, who is farting around on his phone. Watch the game man!

7 min: Chance for Fulham Andersen rumbles forward to the edge of the area, plays a one-two with Castagne and flashes a shot well wide with his left foot. Nice attack, not a great finish.

6 min Cucurella’s cutback from the byline finds Delap, who smashes a shot that is well blocked by Berge on the six-yard line.

5 min Fulham try to play out from the back and lose the ball. Joao Pedro rakes a left-foot drive from 25 yards that is held to his left by Leno.

2 min Fulham have started with a back three/five, so this is their revised line-up.

Fulham (5-3-1-1) Leno; Castagne, Tete, Andersen, Bassey, Sessegnon; Lukic, Berge, Iwobi; King; Muniz.

1 min Peep peep! Chelsea kick off from right to left as we watch.

A reminder of the teams

Chelsea (4-2-3-1) Sanchez; Gusto, Chalobah, Tosin, Cucurella; Caicedo, Enzo; Estevao, Joao Pedro, Neto; Delap.
Subs: Jorgensen, Acheampong, Fofana, James, Hato, Essugo, Andrey Santos, George, Gittens.

Fulham (possible 4-2-3-1) Leno; Tete, Andersen, Bassey, Sessegnon; Lukic, Berge; Castagne, King, Iwobi; Muniz.
Subs: Lecomte, Cuenca, Robinson, Reed, Cairney, Wilson, Adama, Smith Rowe, Raul.

Referee Rob Jones.

Marco Silva’s pre-match thoughts

We are ready for a very, very tough game. We had a good performance last Sunday and we did the job with eight changes in midweek.

We have our plan – it’s not for us to talk about that now, I’d prefer for us to express that on the field. We know what we want from the game.

Alejandro Garnacho, who is in the process of moving from Manchester United to Chelsea, is also at Stamford Bridge today.

Alejandro Garnacho at Stamford Bridge. Photograph: Adam Davy/PA

Enzo Maresca’s pre-match thoughts

It’s a big game, a derby. We know how difficult a game it is from last season [when Fulham won 2-1 at Stamford Bridge] so hopefully we will be ready. We want to finish with a good feeling before the international break.

Nicolas Jackson and Christopher Nkunku have left Chelsea for Munich and Milan respectively. Jacob Steinberg has more.

Team news

Both teams are unchanged from last weekend’s Premier League games. How convenient.

Chelsea (4-2-3-1) Sanchez; Gusto, Chalobah, Tosin, Cucurella; Caicedo, Enzo; Estevao, Joao Pedro, Neto; Delap.
Subs: Jorgensen, Acheampong, Fofana, James, Hato, Essugo, Andrey Santos, George, Gittens.

Fulham (possible 4-2-3-1) Leno; Tete, Andersen, Bassey, Sessegnon; Lukic, Berge; Castagne, King, Iwobi; Muniz.
Subs: Lecomte, Cuenca, Robinson, Reed, Cairney, Wilson, Adama, Smith Rowe, Raul.

Referee Rob Jones

Preamble

Hello and welcome to live coverage of the west London derby at Stamford Bridge. Both teams have had decent starts to the season. Chelsea were held by Crystal Palace and thrashed West Ham; Fulham came from behind to draw with Brighton and Manchester United.

It’s already been a busy day for Chelsea, who have loaned/sold Nicolas Jackson to Bayern Munich. You can read about that on our matchday live blog. This blog, this thing here, is all about the on-field action.

Kick off is at 12.30pm and we’ll have all the team news shortly.