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SportsLine soccer expert Martin Green has locked in his 2023 EPL picks and predictions for Fulham vs. Chelsea on Friday.

- Chelsea vs. [Visit SportsLine now to find out which wagers in Fulham vs. Green has broken down the Premier League match from every angle. With the win, the Cottagers gave the Blues their fifth loss in their last seven Premier League outings. Also, Trevoh Chalobah is a doubt, and Joao Felix is set to sit out the last match of his three-match ban. The 23-year-old forward from Germany leads the team and ranks 21st in the league in goals, with five. On Friday, the Blues face a Fulham side that has lost five of 10 road matches this season. After working in the sports betting industry for several years, Green became a professional sports writer and handicapper and has covered the game worldwide. Caesars Sportsbook lists Chelsea as the -160 favorites (risk $160 to win $100) in the latest Chelsea vs. Fulham odds, with the Cottagers the +440 underdogs. Chelsea enter Matchweek 22 in 10th place in the EPL table, with 29 points. Meanwhile Fulham sit in seventh place in the EPL table, with 21 points.

Chelsea look to avenge last month's defeat to their West London rivals Fulham, in a match that could see record signing Enzo Fernández make his EPL debut.

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Graham Potter was left with a tricky balancing act after the club brought in eight players during the January transfer window. Chelsea were able to register ...

The move has not worked out for either party. Bettinelli has played one game for Chelsea since joining in 2021. Chelsea, who face Borussia Dortmund in the last 16 had selected only 24 players for the group stage and given themselves more wriggle room by selling Jorginho to Arsenal.

Chelsea manager Graham Potter was always going to have a job squeezing new signings in after around $357 million was spent during the January transfer ...

I don’t forget, eight or nine teams in the Premier League sent a letter to the Premier League (for us) to be banned. [https://apnews.com/hub/soccer](https://twitter.com/AP_Sports) and [https://twitter.com/AP_Sports](https://twitter.com/AP_Sports) “What Chelsea do is not my business, I never involve opinions in other clubs because there are regulations, rules, that we have to do. “I don’t understand this part of the business; what you can do, what you cannot do. That happened to us.” “I don’t understand how it’s possible, but it’s not for me to explain how it works.”

Mykhailo Mudryk, Enzo Fernandez and Joao Felix have all been added to Chelsea's Champions League for the latter stages of the competition, ...

[Mykhailo Mudryk](https://theathletic.com/football/player/mykhailo-mudryk-q8qemKXwIpkC0AL6/), [Enzo Fernandez](https://theathletic.com/football/player/enzo-fernandez-mA2LkzPdMOcVkFoZ/) and [Joao Felix](https://theathletic.com/football/player/joao-felix-ucCJXAWiq0yowCTd/) have all been added to [Chelsea](https://theathletic.com/football/team/chelsea/)’s [Champions League](https://theathletic.com/football/champions-league/) for the latter stages of the competition, while [Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang](https://theathletic.com/football/player/pierre-emerick-aubameyang-PlxW6clTOC8TqmBP/) has been left out to make space. The return fixture in west London takes place on March 7. But also that they’re patient and make sure they’re ready to play.” [Jorginho](https://theathletic.com/football/player/jorginho-MvC0hVi06208wo5E/) leaving for [Arsenal](https://theathletic.com/football/team/arsenal/), that left 23 spaces — meaning another player had to be omitted in order for Chelsea to register the full allocation of three new players. [Premier League](https://theathletic.com/football/premier-league/) squad due to being aged 21 or younger, UEFA rules for the Champions League state that players have to have been at the club for at least two years to be eligible for this exemption. [David Datro Fofana](https://theathletic.com/football/player/david-datro-fofana-AzpJzDsCd1yhxZ0m/), [Noni Madueke](https://theathletic.com/football/player/noni-madueke-bfsAkwxuePTQfa0b/), [Andrey Santos](https://theathletic.com/football/player/andrey-santos-BhUzmXKfJMZnJAYD/), [Gabriel Slonina](https://theathletic.com/football/player/gabriel-slonina-rrKqkYQngAGjfrKc/) and [Benoit Badiashile](https://theathletic.com/football/player/benoit-badiashile-PjQKdFS2LzolyOLX/) have also been left out of Graham Potter’s 25-man European squad.

Benfica president Rui Costa has hit out at Enzo Fernandez for his behaviour before leaving the club to join Chelsea for a British record fee.

We want a team committed to the fans. "Enzo was treated well by everyone from the moment he arrived until he left. "We never managed to get through to him to convince him. "He showed no commitment to Benfica. "[I] don't cry for players who don't want to be here. But I also understand that the player wants to settle immediately, afraid of losing an offer that he would consider huge.

Chelsea confirm their 25-man squad for the knockout phase of the 2022/23 UEFA Champions League. Signings Joao Felix, Enzo Fernandez and Mykhailo Mudryk are ...

Liverpool coach Juergen Klopp said he cannot understand how Chelsea were able to spend what they did in the January transfer window, insisting it is best ...

The time between these two extremes, you have to fight through it." "One of the best examples is Marcus Rashford (at Manchester United), the season he had last year and this year. I don't understand how it's possible, but it's not for me to explain how it works."

British record signing Enzo Fernandez will make his debut for Chelsea on Friday after his 106.8 million pounds ($128.79 million) transfer from Benfica this ...

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Enzo Fernandez's debut for Chelsea has fizzled out after Fulham earned a worthy 0-0 draw at Stamford Bridge in the English Premier League.

Hakim Ziyech, fresh from his failed move to Paris Saint-Germain on transfer deadline day, clipped a searching ball in behind Fulham for Kai Havertz to run onto, but the makeshift No. Marco Silva’s well-drilled team made the host look toothless at times at the end of a week in which it spent 106.5 million pounds to land World Cup winner Fernandez. The crowd rallied, and Chelsea started to take control.

Chelsea manager Graham Potter was always going to have a job squeezing new signings in after around $357 million was spent during the January transfer ...

I don’t forget, eight or nine teams in the Premier League sent a letter to the Premier League (for us) to be banned. “What Chelsea do is not my business, I never involve opinions in other clubs because there are regulations, rules, that we have to do. “I don’t understand this part of the business; what you can do, what you cannot do. That happened to us.” “I don’t understand how it’s possible, but it’s not for me to explain how it works.” It followed $305 million worth of signings in the summer after the consortium bought the club for $2.5 billion last May.

Follow the action live as Chelsea and Fulham clash in the Premier League at Stamford Bridge.

— These channels are available to stream via It kicks off at 8 p.m. Chelsea play host to Fulham at Stamford Bridge in London, England. Tinkerman.— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) Deadline day arrivals Sasa Lukic and Cedric are meant to serve squad roles and did not start. Mateo Kovacic cropped up with a new calf injury and missed the match. Reece James returned from injury, while Hakim Ziyech was also called upon after his loan to PSG fell short as a result of bungled paperwork. We're about to find out. They conceded that way when they last met Fulham, who have scored a division-high 11 goals from crosses in the Premier League this season. 40 mins from kickoff: Enzo Fernandez starts! As for Ziyech starting despite a botched move to PSG on Tuesday, Potter says the winger has "done well" in recent games.

LONDON, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Chelsea's Enzo Fernandez shone on his debut and some other new faces hinted at their potential but, after a 300 million pounds ...

and what we can do as a team," the Portuguese coach said. we deserved the result." Chelsea are currently nine points adrift of fourth-placed Manchester United who have a game in hand. Register for free to Reuters and know the full story "From the first minute the players understood really well the plan and they executed really well," Silva said. "What we need to do now is gel the team.

Enzo Fernandez, the Premier League's record signee, enjoyed a promising debut for Chelsea, though familiar issues in front of goal remain.

[David Datro Fofana](http://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/301047/david-datro-fofana) went close late on, when he showed skill in rounding goalkeeper [Bernd Leno](http://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/153765/Bernd-Leno) only for [Tim Ream](http://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/146290/Tim-Ream) to block his shot on the line. [Enzo Fernandez](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/285450/Enzo-Fernández), the new Premier League record signee who arrived in the final minutes of Tuesday's transfer deadline day. Fulham fans are wrong -- for a start, there are three Premier League sides in west London -- but Fulham remain on top of the pack. That rate is even more shocking when you consider no Premier League club has taken a higher percentage of their shots inside the box over that span (76.4%). will be using this week to train and for his new players to get to know each other before they travel to West Ham for a London derby on Feb. Left out were new boys [Malo Gusto](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/308947/Malo-Gusto) and [Andrey Santos](http://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/314858/Andrey-Santos), with Joao Felix absent due to a red card on his debut. He failed to convert a diving shot at the back post early on, and then missed again moments later with a turn and volley. Last month, they beat Chelsea 2-1 at Craven Cottage in what was their first Premier League victory over the Blues since March 2006. 11) and Tottenham (Feb. [Highlights and notable moments](#highlights) [Best/worst performers](#bestworst) [Kai Havertz](http://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/231182/Kai-Havertz) missed a trio of chances in the first half as Chelsea were frustrated by a resolute, counterattacking Fulham side.

Enzo Fernandez's debut for Chelsea has fizzled out after Fulham earned a worthy 0-0 draw at Stamford Bridge in the English Premier League.

Hakim Ziyech, fresh from his failed move to Paris Saint-Germain on transfer deadline day, clipped a searching ball in behind Fulham for Kai Havertz to run onto, but the makeshift No. Marco Silva’s well-drilled team made the host look toothless at times at the end of a week in which it spent 106.5 million pounds to land World Cup winner Fernandez. Fernandez, the most expensive player in British soccer history, was largely kept subdued.

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Enzo Fernandez of Chelsea during the Premier League match between Chelsea FC and Fulham FC at Stamford Bridge on February 3, 2023 in London, United Kingdom.

Hakim Ziyech plays a delightful ball over the top to Kai Havertz who lifts it over Leno but his effort rattles the post and goes back into play! The visitors defended superbly - particularly in the second half as they frustrated a Chelsea side eager to kick start a good run of form. The 20-year-old was able to take it around goalkeeper Bernd Leno before striking towards goal but Tim Ream was on hand with a goal-saving clearance. It was the closest the Argentine came to getting his first goal for the club. It was the first warning shot from Marco Silva's side who looked to pose a threat on the counter. Fernandez came close to a dream debut goal after 70 minutes as his whipped effort from distance flew just past the far post.

Chelsea head coach Graham Potter has said he remains "confident" his side can make a push to qualify for Champions League football next season, d.

"I think you have to look at it all in terms of transfer fees and salaries" Potter said. "That's the challenge, that's what we have to do. I need to focus on the next day, the training session and the next game." "He doesn't know us, we don't know him so well but I think you can see flashes of his quality and personality. "What we need to do now is gel the team," Potter added. When asked if he was confident the team could still qualify for next season's Champions League, Potter said: "I'm confident with the potential we have.

Pierre Emerick Aubameyang has been omitted from Chelsea's Champions League squad to free up registration spots for the club's new signings.

He has not started for Chelsea since the World Cup break. [Mykhailo Mudryk](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/299911/Mykhailo-Mudryk) and Joao Felix were included in the squad as [David Datro Fofana](http://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/301047/David-Datro-Fofana), [Noni Madueke](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/293236/Noni-Madueke), [Andrey Santos](http://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/314858/Andrey-Santos), [Gabriel Slonina](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/286774/Gabriel-Slonina) and [Benoit Badiashile](http://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/282585/Benoit-Badiashile) all missed out. [Barcelona](/soccer/team?id=83) in September. [Enzo Fernandez](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/285450/Enzo-Fernández) for €120 million. [Christian Pulisic](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/225607/Christian-Pulisic), despite the [United States](/soccer/team?id=660) attacker being sidelined with a knee injury that is likely to keep him out until at least mid-March. [Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/122260/Pierre-Emerick-Aubameyang) has been omitted from [Chelsea](/soccer/team?id=363)'s Champions League squad to free up registration spots for the club's new signings.

Enzo Fernandez was handed his Chelsea debut on Friday. Fernandez was named in Chelsea's starting XI to face Fulham three days after signing for the Blues.

Is Chelsea Setting the Market, or Breaking It? The Premier League club's American owners have splashed roughly $750 million on new players since last year.

The deal had been in the works for a week or so. In the rest of Europe, the fear is a little more material. In interviews with a dozen executives at teams both in the Premier League and across Europe, all of whom spoke with The New York Times anonymously because they did not wish to be seen commenting on another team’s business strategy, few could immediately discern the logic of Chelsea’s approach. Among Chelsea’s peers and rivals, the reaction to the club’s spending spree on players has been one of puzzlement. The issue was raised at a meeting of UEFA’s executive board last month, and several teams have since contacted Andrea Traverso, the organization’s head of licensing, to ask European soccer’s governing body what action it plans to take to close the loophole. Though clubs pay the vast majority of a transfer fee upfront — or in a handful of installments over a couple of years — the price of the acquisition is often spread over the duration of the player’s contract, a process known as amortization. In several of its most expensive deals, Chelsea has sought to use that accounting to its advantage. Their preferred mechanism, it seems, has been to defer the official cost of the deals. Arsenal had been discussing the terms of a deal with Shakhtar for some time, and Mudryk had even seemed to welcome his imminent transfer on Instagram. Chelsea’s offer, Palkin said, had been more “concrete” than Arsenal’s: It had offered to pay the nine-figure fee for Mudryk over two years instead of the four Arsenal had proposed. That took Chelsea’s outlay in January alone to more than $370 million, the kind of spending that is criticized when done by oligarchs and nation states. Amrabat would, in the end, be a rare miss in what has been an eye-watering, gasp-inducing month of spending from Eghbali, Boehly and Chelsea.

That meant Potter had to choose between Enzo Fernandez, Mykhailo Mudryk, Benoit Badiashile, Noni Madueke, Joao Felix, David Datro Fofana and Andrey Santos.

The first leg, played in Germany, is on Wednesday, February 15 before the second leg at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday, March 7. But also that they’re patient and make sure they’re ready to play.” That gave Potter a very tough decision to make. [Kepa Arrizabalaga](https://theathletic.com/football/player/kepa-arrizabalaga-1P8FuxeJbZr6pWPM/), [Marcus Bettinelli](https://theathletic.com/football/player/marcus-bettinelli-FWj2SSms0biJJ7xz/), [Edouard Mendy](https://theathletic.com/football/player/edouard-mendy-MXFR7X2FToq4Yagb/). Only six locally-trained players would mean a 23-man list, and so on. [Jorginho](https://theathletic.com/football/player/jorginho-MvC0hVi06208wo5E/), [N’Golo Kante](https://theathletic.com/football/player/ngolo-kante-0EdMe2M0gAPGusOa/), [Mateo Kovacic](https://theathletic.com/football/player/mateo-kovacic-YZAbZ5kh2l2LoNEQ/), Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Mason Mount, [Christian Pulisic](https://theathletic.com/football/player/christian-pulisic-K1gjqIXqbIBgFVgK/), [Denis Zakaria](https://theathletic.com/football/player/denis-zakaria-xtJaqenVE1USfjH2/), [Hakim Ziyech](https://theathletic.com/football/player/hakim-ziyech-wnxSjcAC5t7f1pHr/). If a club do not have eight locally-trained players, they can still submit a valid list. List B can be submitted anywhere up until 11pm GMT (6pm EST, 3pm PT) the day before each matchday. It consists of a maximum of 25 players with at least two of them being goalkeepers. [Cesar Azpilicueta](https://theathletic.com/football/player/cesar-azpilicueta-CCN3w4aSGdHj5s6r/), Trevoh Chalobah, Ben Chilwell, [Marc Cucurella](https://theathletic.com/football/player/marc-cucurella-HjRBGZc2KN43b1sK/), [Wesley Fofana](https://theathletic.com/football/player/wesley-fofana-B3xBiMo59OK63V81/), [Kalidou Koulibaly](https://theathletic.com/football/player/kalidou-koulibaly-Xrp8uQyKo6Y04VY4/), Reece James, [Thiago Silva](https://theathletic.com/football/player/thiago-silva-SMvGFhYXbUH4qI7k/). [Trevoh Chalobah](https://theathletic.com/football/player/trevoh-chalobah-nA4AuCi9fSD483tE/), [Conor Gallagher](https://theathletic.com/football/player/conor-gallagher-oqIDYc9NkOBANdyR/), [Reece James](https://theathletic.com/football/player/reece-james-GKa1YfGdueMrjfBr/), [Ruben Loftus-Cheek](https://theathletic.com/football/player/ruben-loftus-cheek-vpgwsKz86kGSpSFU/) and [Mason Mount](https://theathletic.com/football/player/mason-mount-nxh7ubMYybqCSabx/) are all examples at [Chelsea](https://theathletic.com/football/team/chelsea/). [Ben Chilwell](https://theathletic.com/football/player/ben-chilwell-aT2UBrL6NFLEM9vk/) (trained at [Leicester](https://theathletic.com/football/team/leicester-city/)) and [Raheem Sterling](https://theathletic.com/football/player/raheem-sterling-k4BPKfn0pvnrTLX4/) (trained at [Liverpool](https://theathletic.com/football/team/liverpool/)) are among those that qualify for that criteria in Graham Potter’s squad.

With Enzo Fernandez the latest Argentine to step out in a Chelsea shirt, GOAL takes a look at the other Albiceleste stars to feature in west London.

With that in mind, GOAL takes a look at the Argentines to don the blue of Chelsea, as well as the one that got away... [and was one of the few high points in a drab 0-0 affair with local rivals Fulham.](https://www.goal.com/en/lists/chelsea-fulham-winners-losers-ratings/blt4978b75003392542) [£600 million ($723m) spending spree in 2022-23 was capped off with the £106.8m ($131m) signing of the 21-year-old midfielder](https://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/enzo-fernandez-blasted-benfica-president-rui-costa-record-breaking-chelsea-transfer/blt2f186e366183aab0), a British record fee.

The Blues boss has now returns six blanks in 15 games in charge after being held by Fulham at Stamford Bridge.

Blues chairman is wandering around football's shark-infested casino halls with a sack of money asking how you play blackjack.

The first is the total destruction of trust in football governance. Boehly has a background in hedge funding where the single most important quality is to make sure you have inside knowledge, that you’re ahead of the punters. Nobody is paying Chelsea prices except Chelsea, who are top, not bottom, of the money tree, who basically need another Chelsea, Dumb Chelsea, to pay this new Smart Chelsea market rate. The idea is out there that what we’re witnessing is masterplan stuff. Another flaw is that there is no obvious market to sell this product on to. What is perhaps most startling is the total lack of doubt, the instant boomer-style conviction that only he, Todd Boehly, knows how to fix this European football industry thing that he’s never looked at before.