Club legend Frank Lampard requires the managerial hot-seat for the very first time and all eyes will be on his beginning XI. It’s the 2nd consecutive season the Chelsea first-team have journeyed across the Irish Sea for a preseason game, but the very first against real regional resistance as a charity game at Omagh in 1999 along with a tour of each side of the island in 1992. In the summer of 1991, Chelsea really confronted Bohemians themselves, winning 2-0.
Date: Wednesday, July 10
Venue: Dalymount Park, Dublin, Ireland
Time: 2:45 PM ET
Lampard takes more than Maurizio Sarri, who (even though an at-times disorderly season in England) abandoned the club in a solid position as Europa League winners and also Champions League football for its 2019-20 season.
The Stamford Bridge icon will oversee his first game as manager in Dublin against Bohemians on Wednesday night, and a good deal of Chelsea kids will soon be out to impress their new boss – particularly with the group going through a transition period awarded the Fifa transfer ban combined with the selling of Eden Hazard to Real Madrid.
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Bohemians team News: After completing only sixth last year. However they have a free weekend, So director Keith Long has guaranteed that a solid side, such as young 20-year-old rising star Danny Mandroiu who had been signed shape Brighton’s Academy in January and has been voted Player of the Month for June at the
Chelsea Team News: Chelsea will be without Callum Hudson-Odoi and Ruben Loftus Cheek, both are still recovering from long-term injuries. From that, the 21 players, coaching camp enlarged to 35 powerful on Monday, but Lampard will select mostly from this first set of gamers. So expect a fantastic mixture of kids, loanees, and also the strange first-team veteran.
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