2) Playing Outside Forwards And No Striker

Nicolas Pepe

Alexandre Lacazette is unlikely to be available for the game due to illness and, while Eddie Nketiah did his best against Southampton, he’s unlikely to have that much joy against the calibre of someone like Thiago Silva.


The solution, therefore, is to not give the Chelsea defender anyone to mark. Gabriel Martinelli and potentially Nicolas Pepe could be deployed as outside forwards, playing in between Chelsea’s right-sided/left-sided centre-halves and Silva.