Paulo Ferreira retains his place at left-back with Yury Zhirkov returning from injury on the bench.

Michael Ballack returns after suspension while Salomon Kalou is dropped to the bench to make way for Florent Malouda to move forward into the front three.

Ross Turnbull makes his Chelsea league debut and John Terry overtakes Dennis Wise to go clear as our fifth all-time appearance maker.

Gianfranco Zola shuffles his pack including a totally changed front three.

On the bench go Alessandro Diamanti, Guillermo Franco and Carlton Cole (who reportedly has an injury concern), in come Mido, Araujo Ilan and Kieron Dyer.

Chelsea are expected to line up in the following 4-3-2-1 formation:

22 Ross Turnbull
2 Branislav Ivanovic
33 Alex
26 John Terry (c)
19 Paulo Ferreira
13 Michael Ballack
12 John Mikel Obi
8 Frank Lampard
39 Nicolas Anelka
15 Florent Malouda
11 Didier Drogba.

Substitutes: 30 Rhys Taylor, 18 Yury Zhirkov, 43 Jeffrey Bruma, 10 Joe Cole, 20 Deco, 21 Salomon Kalou, 23 Daniel Sturridge.

West Ham away are expected to line up in the following 4-3-3 formation:

Green; Spector, Gabbidon, Upson (c), Deprela; Behrami, Kovac, Parker; Ilan, Mido, Dyer.

Substitutes: Stech, Stanislas, Collison, Diamanti, McCarthy, Franco, C Cole.

The referee is Mark Clattenburg.

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