Chelsea boss Mauricio Pochettino will have to cope without the departing Thiago Silva for Thursday's Premier League London derby with Tottenham Hotspur at Stamford Bridge.

The 39-year-old, who is confirmed to be leaving the club at the end of the season, picked up a groin injury in the dying embers of the weekend's 2-2 draw with Aston Villa and is one of a whopping 14 concerns for the hosts to manage.

Wesley Fofana (knee), Reece James (thigh), Romeo Lavia (thigh), Lesley Ugochukwu (thigh), Malo Gusto (knee), Ben Chilwell (knee), Carney Chukwuemeka (knee) and Enzo Fernandez (hernia) are definitely out, as are Raheem Sterling (back), Robert Sanchez (unspecified), Christopher Nkunku (thigh) and Levi Colwill (toe), in spite of the latter two now returning to team training.

Furthermore, Axel Disasi has also succumbed to an unspecified problem since the Villa stalemate, so Pochettino should turn to Alfie Gilchrist to deputise at the back.

The 20-year-old will likely take up the right-back position as Trevoh Chalobah and Benoit Badiashile form Djordje Petrovic's central barrier, with Marc Cucurella bombing down the left.

With Fernandez recovering from his operation, Conor Gallagher - scorer of a terrific equaliser at Villa Park - will reprise his deeper role with Moises Caicedo, who also put in an enterprising performance at the weekend.

Cole Palmer - now fully recovered from an illness - pulls the strings just ahead of the duo alongside Noni Madueke, Mykhaylo Mudryk and Nicolas Jackson, who left the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium with the match ball under his arm in November courtesy of a first Premier League hat-trick against the nine-man Lilywhites.

Chelsea possible starting lineup:
Petrovic; Gilchrist, Chalobah, Badiashile, Cucurella; Caicedo, Gallagher; Madueke, Palmer, Mudryk; Jackson

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