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Team news: Chelsea v Huddersfield

/noticias.info/ José Mourinho makes nine changes from the team that beat West Ham last time out.

As he promised yesterday, he gives starts to Johnson, Huth, Bridge and Carlton Cole. Lassana Diarra will make his full Chelsea debut in central midfield between experienced pair Gudjohnsen and Joe Cole.

There is a first time on the bench for 20 year-old winger Filipe Morais, born in Lisbon, brought up in south-east England. Carlo Cudicini captains as he faces the team against whom he made his full debut.

Former Sheffield Wednesday striker Andy Booth, the one Huddersfield player with Premiership experience, has failed a fitness test on an injured groin. Winger Gary Taylor-Fletcher moves into attack to replace him with Chris Brandon returning from suspension on the wing.

Goalkeeper Phillip Senior is starting just his second game of the season.

Chelsea will line-up in a 4-3-3 formation as follows

23 Carlo Cudicini (c)

2 Glen Johnson

6 Ricardo Carvalho

29 Robert Huth

18 Wayne Bridge

10 Joe Cole

19 Lassana Diarra

22 Eidur Gudjohnsen

24 Shaun Wright-Phillips

12 Carlton Cole

11 Damien Duff

Substitutes: 40 Lenny Pidgeley, 20 Paulo Ferreira, 3 Asier Del Horno, 16 Arjen Robben, 45 Filipe Morais.

Huddersfield are expected to line-up in a 4-4-2 formation as follows:

Senior; Holdsworth, McIntosh, N Clarke (c), Adams; Brandon, Hudson, Ahmed, Schofield; Taylor-Fletcher, Abbott.

Midfielders (wing), Mark Hudson, defender David Mirfin.

Subs: Rachubka (gk), T Clarke, Mirfin, Collins, McAliskey.
The referee is Alan Wiley. notas_de_prensa_archivo