Confirmed Teams: Udinese vs Chelsea XI | Pre-Season

Chelsea XI face Udinese in pre-season and the confirmed team news is in from Italy.

It's round two in Italy after Thomas Tuchel's side beat the Serie A side 3-1 on Friday evening. Goals from N'Golo Kante, Raheem Sterling and Mason Mount won the first outing for the Blues.

Thomas Tuchel was pleased with the showing from the side on Friday, taking plenty of positives, but insists they should have scored more.

He said: "We trained a lot this week, especially two days ago so we did not have the freshest legs. But we have a lot of positive things to take away from this game. It’s a good performance, it’s a good result, we could’ve scored much more, should’ve scored much more. But overall, it’s a lot of positive stuff to take away from this.

"We play another match here against Udinese, another team, to have minutes in our legs. Then it’s two days break. Then we prepare nothing else but Everton because they are right in front of the door and we need to improve, we are not ready yet. We don’t have to be ready yet, we have another week and then it’s the time to be on the best level and there’s still some way to go.

Now it's time for Chelsea's extended squad to get some minutes ahead of the Premier League opener next weekend against Everton in the final confirmed scheduled game of the 2022 pre-season calendar.

Here is the confirmed team news from Italy as a Chelsea XI takes on Udinese.

Udinese

Starting XI: Padelli, Perez, Abankwah, Nuytinck, Ebosele, Palumbo, Samardzic, Lovric, Pafundi, Pussetto, Nestorovski

Bench: Piana, Guessand, Cocetta, Abdalla, Asante, Castagnaviz

Chelsea XI

Starting XI: Kepa, Chalobah, Ampadu, Sarr, Loftus-Cheek, Kovacic, Gallagher, Chilwell, Ziyech, Broja, Pulisic

Bench: Bettinelli, Emerson, Gilmour, Kenedy, Hudson-Odoi, Vale

To no surprise, Kepa Arrizabalaga starts in goal for Chelsea against Udinese for the training game after Edouard Mendy played on Friday.

Trevoh Chalobah, Ethan Ampadu and Malang Sarr start at the back with Ben Chilwell getting the runout on Saturday morning.

Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Mateo Kovacic and Conor Gallagher all feature for the Blues in round two of Udinese versus Chelsea.

Armando Broja will be hoping to make an impression on Tuchel, and is joined alongside Christian Pulisic and Hakim Ziyech in attack.

Marcus Bettinelli, Emerson Palmieri, Billy Gilmour, Kenedy, Callum Hudson-Odoi and Harvey Vale make up the bench once against they eye further minutes to their game time on Friday night - apart from Marcus Bettinelli who didn't feature.