Kick off at Stamford Bridge: 8pm

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TEAM NEWS

Irons: Cresswell, Lanzini, Sakho

Doubtful: Payet, Tore

Chelsea: Mikel, Zouma, Rahma

Doubtful: Hazard Kante

IRONS REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL

Chelsea under a new manager may well be without several key players and whether Antonio Conte has had sufficient time to disperse last season’s hangover remains to be seen. Andy Carroll looks sharp and Andrew Ayew is as tricky an individual as it gets.

LAST FIVE CLASHES

Chelsea 2­-2 West Ham (Premier League), March 2016

West Ham 2­-1 Chelsea (Premier League), October 2015

West Ham 0­-1 Chelsea (Premier League), March 2015

Chelsea 2­-0 West Ham (Premier League), December 2014

Chelsea 0­-0 West Ham (Premier League), January 2014

CHELSEA’S ONE TO WATCH

It will be interesting to see who is deployed to mark Willian who was unquestionably Chelsea’s danger man last season. The Irons musn’t give him room to play.

IRONS ONE TO WATCH

In the likely absence of Dimi it will be interesting to see the effect Andre Ayew can have but if we are going to score then AC is likely to prove the thorn in Chelsea’s side.

ODDS

The bookies have Chelsea at a shades of odds on generally with the Irons generally avaialable at approximately 4/1. The draw can be gambled at about 3/1