{"id":2715,"date":"2026-05-08T15:12:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=2715"},"modified":"2026-05-08T15:12:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:12:30","slug":"liverpool-v-chelsea-team-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=2715","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool v Chelsea: Team news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Chelsea interim head coach Calum McFarlane provided mixed news on the fitness front when he spoke to the media.<\/p>\n<p>Defenders <strong>Levi Colwill <\/strong>and <strong>Reece James <\/strong>are in contention to face the Reds.<\/p>\n<p>The former played a half in the Blues\u2019 3-1 defeat against Nottingham Forest on Monday, for which the latter was an unused substitute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got a few lads returning. Levi has trained another full week again, Reece as well. So, looking promising,\u201d said McFarlane on Thursday. \u201cWe\u2019ve still got another session. They both trained fully today. We\u2019re hopeful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, though,<strong> Jesse Derry<\/strong> and <strong>Robert Sanchez<\/strong> will be absent for the trip to Merseyside due to head injuries sustained versus Forest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alejandro Garnacho<\/strong> and <strong>Pedro Neto <\/strong>are also doubtful, with McFarlane saying the pair \u201care carrying knocks so it\u2019s looking unlikely they\u2019re going to be available\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Estevao<\/strong> has already been ruled out for the remainder of the campaign and <strong>Jamie Gittens<\/strong> is sidelined by a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Last match<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Manchester United 3-2 <strong>Liverpool<\/strong> (May 3): Woodman, Jones, Konate, Van Dijk, Robertson, Gravenberch, Mac Allister, Frimpong, Szoboszlai, Wirtz, Gakpo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chelsea<\/strong> 1-3 Nottingham Forest (May 4): Sanchez, Gusto, Chalobah, Tosin, Cucurella, Caicedo, Lavia, Palmer, Fernandez, Derry, Joao Pedro.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea interim head coach Calum McFarlane provided mixed news on the fitness front when he<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liverpool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}