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title: "Chelsea predicted XI: Tottenham (H)"
canonical: "https://readchelsea.com/2019/02/26/chelsea-predicted-xi-tottenham-h-2/"
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language: "en-GB"
author: "Sam Tabuteau"
section: "Chelsea Features & Analysis"
published: "2019-02-26T11:39:06Z"
modified: "2019-02-26T11:39:41Z"
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# Chelsea predicted XI: Tottenham (H)

The contentious fall out from the League Cup final – heralded in the media as ‘Kepagate’, has continued to dominate the build-up to Chelsea’s crucial match against London rivals Tottenham, and it could be easy to get sidetracked and neglect the importance of this game both to Chelsea’s season and Maurizio Sarri’s long-term future.

Wednesday night’s match, however, has taken on seismic ramifications and a performance similar to the one shown in the final is necessary to arrest the Blues’ malaise since the turn of the year.

Whilst Raheem Sterling’s spot-kick resigned Sarri to losing out on another chance to back up his footballing methods with a first professional trophy, the Italian has to quickly turn his attention to the game.

A near full strength side is available to Sarri after Pedro returned to the fold against City, whilst Harry Kane made a goalscoring comeback from injury at Burnley for Tottenham.

Here’s the XI that I think Sarri will select for the game: