Despite playing 120 minutes for France midweek, Nicolas Anelka starts today alongside Salomon Kalou in attack.

Alex comes in for Ricardo Carvalho alongside John Terry in defence with Ashley Cole and Juliano Belletti the full-backs.

John Mikel Obi will play his first Chelsea game in two months as holding midfielder with Michael Essien pushed up field. Florent Malouda and Joe Cole are also in midfield.

Gael Kakuta, Fabio Borini and Nemanja Matic give the bench a youthful look. Yury Zhirkov is also among the subs.

Wolves leave Republic of Ireland striker Kevin Doyle out altogether following his travails midweek.

Chelsea will line up in a 4-diamond-2 formation as follows:

1 Petr Cech
35 Juliano Belletti
33 Alex
26 John Terry (c)
3 Ashley Cole
12 John Mikel Obi
5 Michael Essien
15 Florent Malouda
10 Joe Cole
21 Salomon Kalou
39 Nicolas Anelka

Substitutes: 40 Hilario, 19 Paulo Ferreira, 2 Branislav Ivanovic, 18 Yury Zhirkov, 24 Nemanja Matic, 44 Gael Kakuta, 45 Fabio Borini.

Wolves are expected to line up in the following 3-5-2 formation:

Hennessey; Stearman, Craddock, Berra; Halford, Edwards, Castillo Henry (c), Surman; Jarvis, Ebanks-Blake.

Substitutes: Hahnemann, Kightly, Elokobi, Milijas, Keogh, Foley, Maierhofer.

The referee is Lee Mason.

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