Chelsea will face an Armenian facet for the primary time of their historical past on Thursday night after they host FC Noah within the Europa Convention League.
The Blues return to European motion after a difficult few weeks. Since their 4-1 demolition of Panathinaikos, they’ve confronted Newcastle United residence and away – profitable at Stamford Bridge and dropping on the highway – and visited Manchester United. Their conflict with Noah is adopted by a tantalising fixture with London rivals Arsenal.
Enzo Maresca’s facet at the moment lead the desk within the Convention League after triumphing of their opening two matches. Excessive-scoring victories see them declare high spot on purpose distinction and they’re possible so as to add considerably to the eight targets they’ve scored on Thursday night.
Noah, who had been solely based in 2017, may be happy with their European marketing campaign up to now. Within the league section, they’ve already overwhelmed Mlada Boleslav earlier than falling to a slim 1-0 defeat to Speedy Wien final day trip. Nevertheless, a visit to Stamford Bridge is a wholly completely different proposition.
Right here is 90min’s information to Chelsea’s conflict with minnows Noah.
Chelsea vs Noah H2H Report
That is the primary ever aggressive fixture between Chelsea and Noah.
Present kind (all competitions)
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Chelsea |
Noah |
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Man Utd 1-1 Chelsea – 03/11/24 |
Noah 2-1 Urartu – 01/11/24 |
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Newcastle 2-0 Chelsea – 30/10/24 |
Ararat Armenia 0-1 Noah – 28/10/24 |
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Chelsea 2-1 Newcastle – 27/10/24 |
Speedy Wien 1-0 Noah – 24/10/24 |
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Panathinaikos 1-4 Chelsea – 24/10/24 |
Noah 5-0 Van – 20/10/24 |
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Liverpool 2-1 Chelsea – 20/10/24 |
Alashkert 0-6 Noah – 16/10/24 |
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Nation |
TV channel/stay stream |
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United Kingdom |
TNT Sports activities 1, discovery+, discovery+ App |
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United States |
Paramount+, ViX |
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Canada |
DAZN |
Maresca has revealed that star performer Cole Palmer is a doubt forward of Sunday’s conflict with Arsenal within the Premier League. The England worldwide is not registered within the Convention League squad and would have earned a relaxation on Thursday regardless.
Jadon Sancho, who missed a return to Previous Trafford on Sunday, can be a doubt for Arsenal’s go to as he recovers from sickness and offers with a knock suffered in coaching.
Maresca has made wholesale modifications and used his second-string XI for the Convention League and can do the identical on Thursday night. The likes of Mykhailo Mudryk, Kiernan Dewsbury-Corridor, Joao Felix and Christopher Nkunku are more likely to come into the group.
Chelsea predicted lineup vs Noah (4-2-3-1): Jorgensen; Veiga, Disasi, Badiashile, Cucurella; Dewsbury-Corridor, Fernandez; George, Felix, Mudryk; Nkunku.
Noah do not boast many faces acquainted to Chelsea supporters however they do have a number of thrilling abilities from throughout Europe and South America inside their ranks. Portuguese ahead Goncalo Gregorio is their eye-catching sharpshooter with 12 targets in 18 matches this time period.
When it comes to accidents, Icelandic left-back Gudmundur Thorarinsson and Slovakia midfielder Martin Gambos are the Armenian facet’s sidelined gamers at current
Noah predicted lineup vs Chelsea (4-3-3): Cancarevic; Mendoza, Silva, Muradyan, Hambardzumyan; Eteki, Omar, Sangare; Helder, Gregorio, Pinson
Chelsea have often referred to as upon their remarkably deep squad this season and can achieve this once more for the go to of Noah. The Armenian underdogs will do effectively to maintain the scoreline down at Stamford Bridge, with Chelsea’s alternate XI boasting a daft quantity of expertise.
Having already put 4 previous Gent and Panathinaikos in Europe, the Blues might enhance upon that tally this Thursday in what would be the greatest sport in Noah’s seven-year historical past.
