Sterling debut, Gallagher chance - How Chelsea should line-up vs Club America pre-season fixture

Chelsea will play Club America in a pre-season friendly on Sunday morning.

The fixture will be Chelsea's first pre-season match this summer. The match against Club America will be played in the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.

N'Golo Kante and Ruben Loftus Cheek didn't make the trip due to vaccinations. With Kante and Loftus-Cheek absent, Tuchel will only have two midfielders in Mateo Kovacic and Jorginho, that finished the season with the squad after Saul Niguez returned to his parent club Atletico Madrid. This offers a great opportunity to the likes of Billy Gilmour, Ethan Ampadu and Conor Gallagher.

Chelsea flew to America last weekend with a 29-man squad and have been joined by new summer signing Raheem Sterling, who could be in line for a potential debut for the side. Armando Broja has also joined the squad, making it a now 31-man squad for Tuchel to pick from.

There are likely to be plenty of substitutions to ensure everyone gets their required playing time but the Blues have already been hit by injury with Armando Broja out of training since arriving in the USA. Tuchel explained: "He had a little accident yesterday in training with the ball control and landed in a funny way on his ankle and Achilles. He is in pain but nothing is injured – we did the examinations and it's just pain. He is lucky that he did not get injured. We are lucky and happy that he did not injure himself. He is not in training and he is in treatment, Armando."

Levi Colwill was not present in the open training session that followed, while Kalidou Koulibaly only recently signed. Raheem Sterling is yet to train every minute but Tuchel conceded is yet to decide his team. Here's how our writers think Chelsea should line up.

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