🆚 Brentford
🏆 MD5 / Premier League
⌚️ 8pm [UK]
🏟️ Gtech Community Stadium
💻 Live on Sky Sports

Another London derby awaits. Matchday! 💙 https://t.co/ubgmY3yGsZ

One final game for #CFC before the international break.

Time to get back to winning ways! 🤝🔵 https://t.co/5KNY2BKff0

Brentford are winless in all five of their Premier League home games against #Chelsea, with each of the last four finishing level [L1].

[via @BBCSport]

Having lost three of their first five Premier League games against Brentford [W1 D1], #Chelsea are now unbeaten in their last five against the Bees [W2 D3].

[via @BBCSport]

#Chelsea have won just one of their previous six Premier League away games [D1 L4].

[via @BBCSport]

Brentford and #Chelsea are the only two sides that have opened the scoring in each of their four Premier League games so far this season. Overall this season, the side that has scored first has gone on to win 58.3% of games.

[via @BBCSport]

#Chelsea’s Danny Welbeck has scored in each of his last three Premier League games against Brentford, he’s never netted in four consecutive matches against a specific opponent in the competition.

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Morgan Rogers and Cole Palmer… ✅🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🔵

England boss, Thomas Tuchel:

“[Cole] Palmer has his numbers back and a point to prove…”

[via @MirrorFootball]

Xabi Alonso on Brentford:

"It's a club that have developed their project and the game very well. They are very complete in many aspects, with the ball, without the ball..."

[via @ChelseaFC]

Xabi Alonso:

"You need to give your best level because you get punished whenever you are not, and we have experienced that. But I think that there will be good moments for all the teams and bad moments for all the teams."

[via @ChelseaFC]

OFFICIAL: #Chelsea’s @Carabao_Cup fourth round tie against Liverpool [a] will take place on Wednesday 28th October at 8pm [UK] - live on Sky Sports and ITV.

Maxence Lacroix… ✅🇫🇷🔵

Brentford vs #Chelsea: What #CFC starting XI do you want to see Xabi Alonso select, Blues? 🔵

Reece James and Jordan Henderson have arrived with the #CFC squad at Brentford.

[via @kierangill_DM]

#Chelsea XI to face Brentford: Martinez, Fofana, Lacroix, Colwill (c), Neto, Henderson, Barco, Chavarria, Palmer, Rogers, Welbeck

Bench: Penders, Acheampong, Gusto, Hato, Lavia, Nicoli-Jazuli, Gittens, Estevao, Quenda

Brentford XI to face #Chelsea: Kelleher, Kayode, Ajer, Schuster, Lewis-Potter, Janelt, Yarmoliuk, Damsgaard, Anthony, Schade, Thiago

Bench: Balcombe, Hickey, Henry, Ouattara, Wilson, Carvalho, Sangare, Diouf, Fredrick

Thoughts on the #CFC team to face Brentford, Blues? 🔵

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Danny Welbeck on life at #Chelsea:

"I've settled in pretty quickly, am really enjoying my time here and looking forward to the exciting project ahead. I feel like we have a decent understanding, we have trained together a lot now, we are understanding each other's games a lot more and we are trying to improve every day."

[via @SkySports]

Danny Welbeck:

"We have a lot of attacking quality in the squad, there are a number of players with threat going forward, we've started well as a squad getting a lit of goals, but we also know defensively as a team we need to be better."

[via @SkySports]

Xabi Alonso on Reece James' injury:

"He had a little injury in his hamstring. He tried, and we waited until this morning, but he couldn’t make it. Now we have enough time to prepare for the next one, but he was just a few days short of recovering."

[via @SkySports]