So much for my prediction that Ba would start for Chelsea. He and his face mask can but make the bench as Torres starts up front. Despite injury concerns midweek, Cech starts in goal for the boys in blue. Terry, as expected, doesn't make it – how different would Rafa's reign be if JT had been available all along the way? – so Frankie goes to Hollywood Lampard takes the captaincy instead. And, curiously, Mata does not start. Elsewhere, Luciano Becchio makes his first start for Norwich since his move from Nasty Leeds and Aaron Ramsey and Santi Carzorla have pushed Abou Diaby and Alex Oxlade Chamberlain out of the way and taken their places for Arsenal; Danny Graham will only be meters away from AD and AOC since he is on the Sunderland bench. In other early sending off Sunderland news, Lee Cattermole starts after getting over a nasty dose of knee-blugh! Oh, and Koscielny starts. Finally, there is neither sight nor sound or Loic Remy in the QPR squad but there is sight and sound of Michel Vorm who replaces Gerhard Tremmel.
Chelsea v Wigan
Chelsea: Cech, Azpilicueta, Ivanovic, Cahill, Cole, D Luiz, Lampard, Ramires, Oscar, Hazard, Torres
Subs: Turnbull, Ferreira, Bertrand, Benayoun, Marin, Mata, Ba
Wigan: Al Habsi, McCarthy, Caldwell, Di Santo, Maloney, McArthur, Espinoza, Beausejour, Stam, Figueroa, Scharner
Subs: Robles, Kone, Jones, Henriquez, Gomez, McManaman, Golobart
The man in the middle: Mike Dean
Norwich v Fulham
Norwich: Bunn; R.Martin, Bassong, Turner, Garrido; Tettey, Johnson, E.Bennett, Snodgrass, Hoolahan; Becchio
Subs: Camp; Whittaker, Howson, Jackson, Surman, Kamara, Tierney.
Fulham: Schwarzer; Manolev, Senderos, Hangeland (c), Riise; Duff, Frimpong, Sidwell, Ruiz; Berbatov; Rodallega
Subs: Etheridge, Hughes, Karagounis, Kacaniklic, Emanuelson, Dejagah, Petric
The man in the middle: Howard Webb
Stoke V Reading
Stoke: Begovic, Wilkinson, Shotton, Huth, Shawcross (c), Whelan, Kightly, Etherington, N'Zonzi, Walters, Crouch
Subs: Sorensen, Cameron, Jones, Owen, Adam, Whitehead, Jerome
Reading: Federci, Kelly, Harte, Mariappa, Pearce, Leigertwood, Akpan, McAnuff (c), Kebe, Blackman, Pogrebnyak
Subs: Taylor, Shorey, Morrison, Karacan, McCleary, Le Fondre, Hunt
The man in the middle: Michael Oliver
Sunderland v Arsenal
Sunderland: Mignolet, Gardner, Rose, Bramble, O'Shea, Cattermole (c), N'Diaye, Colback, Johnson, Sessegnon, Fletcher
Subs: Bardsley, Larsson, Graham, Vaughan, Mangane, Cuellar, Westwood
Arsenal: Szczesny, Sagna, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Arteta, Wilshere, Ramsey, Cazorla, Walcott, Giroud
Subs: Diaby, Rosicky, Podolski, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Jenkinson, Miquel, Mannone
The man in the middle: Anthony Taylor
Swansea v QPR
Swansea: Vorm, Rangel, Chico, Williams (c), Davies, De Guzman, Ki, Dyer, Routledge, Hernandez, Michu
Subs: Tremmel, Bartley, Tiendalli, Agustien, Lamah, Shechter, Moore
QPR: Cesar, Traore, Derry, Samba, Hill, Taarabt, Mackie, Onuoha, Jenas, Townsend, Mbia
Subs: Green, Park, SWP, Granero, Ben Haim, Zamora, Bothroy
The man in the middle: Neil Swarbrick
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