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CHELSEA FC: TEAM NEWS: CHELSEA V OLYMPIACOS

/noticias.info/ Petr Cech is injured so Carlo Cudicini starts. Didier Drogba replaces Nicolas Anelka up front.

Those are the only changes from the side that won 4-0 at Upton Park so the defence that kept a clean sheet at Upton Park is retained.

Olympiacos will once again play with Darko Kovacevic as a lone striker but make a change in midfield with Christos Patsatzoglou coming in.

23 Carlo Cudicini
20 Paulo Ferreira
6 Ricardo Carvalho
26 John Terry (c)
3 Ashley Cole
13 Michael Ballack
4 Claude Makelele
8 Frank Lampard
10 Joe Cole
11 Didier Drogba
21 Salomon Kalou

Subs: 40 Hilario, 35 Juliano Belletti, 33 Alex, 5 Michael Essien, 24 Shaun Wright-Phillips, 15 Florent Malouda, 39 Nicolas Anelka.

Olympiacos are expected to line up in a 4-5-1 formation, as follows:

Nikopolidis; Pantos, Julio César, Antzas, Zewlakow; Djordjevic, Stoltidis, Ledesma, Patsatzoglou, Torosidis; Kovacevic.

Subs: Sifakis, Leonardo, Nunez, Torosidis, Belluschi, Konstantinou, Sisic.

The referee is Manuel Mejuto González from Spain.


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