Our live stream ahead of Saturday nights Premier League match, Chelsea vs Leeds is now up and running, kicking off at 20.00pm BST.
You can keep an eye on the commentary as it happens below, but first, we take a preview into the fixture, lineups, predictions and much more…
Chelsea’s last Premier League outing was a goalless draw against league leaders Tottenham. The Spurs stalemate handed them their league-high fifth clean sheet of the campaign, while they have now conceded just once in their last five league games compared to nine times in their opening five.

Chelsea certainly look like more credible challengers now than they did earlier this season, which is largely down to their improvement in defence.
They bounced back from that goalless draw last weekend with a 4-0 hammering of Sevilla in midweek, with Olivier Giroud helping himself to all of the goals in Spain.
Chelsea have now won seven of their last eight matches across all competitions and not lost inside 90 minutes since September – a run which now stretches to 15 games.
Leeds United claimed their first Premier League win at Goodison Park as Raphinha’s late stunner saw off Everton 1-0 in a game packed full of chances but not goals.
Leeds were sharp from the outset and should have taken the lead inside the first minute when Raphinha was played in behind makeshift left-back Alex Iwobi, but his poked effort under Pickford was cleared before it reached the target.
Leeds have proven themselves more than capable of breaching the best defences in the league already this season, but Chelsea have only ever lost three home matches against promoted opposition in the Premier League era, winning an unrivalled 68 of their 83 such contests.
Last time the two clubs face each other was back in 2012 where Chelsea came back from 1-0 down to win 5-1 at Elland Road….
PRESS CONFERENCES:
Frank Lampard
Is Giroud making it impossible not to start? Reassurance over future?
It’s not a case of giving players reassurances over game time. It’s difficult to do. You want players out of the team to train well and perform. It gives me nice problems. Oli has always done that as such. Particularly after the restart when he was fundamental to us getting into the Champions League spots. I’m not going to give my team selection out today.
Is he worried about game time?
I can’t answer for him but from my point of view I have competition for places. Tammy has been scoring and making assists. I can’t give assurances but I never see anything negative from Oli. Playing like the other night, clearly he will get plenty of opportunities.
Can you forgive and forget over Spygate?
It’s in the past. I’m not going to dwell on it. It was a great news story but it’s gone. It was a proud moment for me to go against them and win [in play-offs] but it’s long gone now and I don’t want to dwell on it.
Bielsa says he learnt from it?
Not concerned if he’s learnt a lesson or not. I’m not hanging on it around the game. I respect him, I respect Leeds.
Advantage to you having fans back?
Don’t know. Good question but it’s unfortunate if some clubs can’t have fans. They can help us at home by being vocal and supportive. We want more but they can affect the atmosphere and get behind us.
This game has a long history of feistiness. Start of a new era in rivalry?
I’m aware of the rivalry from being a player for so long and I know how fans feel about it. It’s two huge clubs with a history but hard for me to equate that to Timo Werner, Kai Havertz and others who don’t know that history. But I know it will be competitive because that’s how Leeds approach games.
Gilmour in line for minutes this month?
Possibly. We don’t have injuries tomorrow so players miss out on squads but Billy will hopefully get minutes. His quality will shine through.
Do you remember young Bamford?
He trained with us quite a lot. Had great finishing abilities and an eye for goal in his early years. He should be proud of his career to come back and be one of the leading scorers in the Premier League. I like him as a lad, he’s playing well and I’m happy for him.
Squad is bonding now?
It takes consistency. We’re playing well but we can get better for sure. There will be tests along the way when players play well and aren’t in the team the next match because of competition. We’re in a good place but they can be a lot better.
Leeds like a shot – biggest test of defence so far this season?
They are not easy to analyse but the stats say a lot of shorts, scoring against the top teams. We have to be at our absolute best. We’ve shown some really good signs in how to get clean sheets but Leeds are one of the most dangerous teams in the league.
What will it mean for you and players to have fans?
A great deal. This season I certainly felt it and I guess players do. To get 2,000 back is a huge deal. They have been patient. We hope we can get more in quickly but it will be nice to hear them tomorrow supporting the team.
How difficult to prepare for this with travelling to Sevilla?
That comes with a team in Europe. We can’t complain too much but it affects things and we need to focus on recovery and maintenance. Leeds’ strength is their physical side and energy. We can only worry about ourselves.
Marcelo Bielsa
Four points from last two games, two clean sheets, how pleased are you defensively and is Llorente back?
The defensive performance of the last two games it was better against Arsenal than it was against Everton. Against Arsenal we encountered not a lot of danger and against Everton we conceded some chances which could have resulted in goals.
With relation to Llorente he is healthy, he is in conditions to play and the ideal thing would be for him to play with the under 23s before he plays with the first team because it has been a while since he has played now but we will see. We hope we don’t have a situation where we have to accelerate his process into the team.
On Phillips – has he benefited from the enforced break?
I can’t tell you with certainty whether his two performances coming back were linked to the fact that he was out for a month.
On concussion – would you like to see the introduction of concussion substitutes?
“I think that people that evaluate these situations will have a lot more data on this as to whether this would be something.”
On Pablo, Shackleton and Forshaw
When a player goes there are ways to help his recovery it is to propose an activity similar to the Premier League.
Knowing that you can manage his game time and at the levels a little bit lower. This is the ideal process especially when players have repeat muscular injuries which is the case of Pablo, Shackleton and Llorente.
In addition to the need that the player is healthy and the necessity of the team requires him you may have to call on a player who is healthy but maybe doesn’t have the ideal sporting level but if you can do it in a more progressive manner because the players’ performance will progressively improve while he is playing.
And this way you can verify whether he is completely healed because he will be able to manage the efforts, sometimes you can do it this way and sometimes you can’t.
Where is Forshaw in his recovery?
He has highs and lows. But up until this point he hasn’t been able to do any football practices.
On Raphinha
He is a player with the capacity to unbalance a team individually. His physical qualities are good, he is a dynamic player, it is not difficult for him to go forward and come back or to get in behind and defend and the characteristics of the team coincide with his way of playing.
Overall assessment after ten games
I am always a little reluctant to answer this question, if you observe we had a favourable start to the season where the goals that we conceded didn’t really affect the result as we were scoring plenty and then there was a period where we conceded a lot of goals and we weren’t very efficient in attack and the third period where we haven’t conceded goals and we have created opportunities to deserve to win.
On Frank Lampard and Chelsea – perfected art of balance of defence and attack
The description that you made is correct, the values that you analyse to describe a team of how they defend and how they attack and the way they return after both attacking and defending, in these factors in these values you always find Chelsea in favourable positions.
On history of Leeds v Chelsea
For us every game in the Premier League is very attractive and every opponent renews the difficulties we have to face. And in the case of Chelsea this happens without doubt.
With the added point that it is a traditional encounter even though it hasn’t happened for a long time.
Can players that come in understand the cultural rivalries the same way that Phillips does or that you did at Newell’s?
I don’t think there is a professional player that hasn’t lived through a time where they have faced an opponent where it has increased their motivation or spirit for a certain game.
The players that we have in this squad as a minimum have been there for almost three years and they know the fans well and this allows them to live what the fans want.
From what I know, the players that arrived here this season they came here because of the fans, because of the way the fans lived the football.
On Lampard, did he get the wrong impression of you at first?
It was already resolved by the authorities how these actions need to be punished, They were analysed by people who needed to analyse them.
What did you learn from English football then?
I didn’t learn anything that I didn’t know prior to that. I know the spirit of English football and the punishment I received according to what the authorities deemed, this indicates to me that it shouldn’t be repeated and this is an aspect that can be deemed as something that I learned.
On nomination for FIFA Best Coach award
“I appreciate the distinction.”
On not being able to watch teams since?
“I never consider until what is possible what is not allowed for me to do.”
Relationship with Lampard? Is it good? Bad?
“It’s not bad and the relationship I have with him is similar to the ones I have with the rest of my colleagues.”
On Lampard’s work at Chelsea?
Frank Lampard, during last season he developed a lot of players that were already in the institution and this season he improved the composition of his team choosing players for the positions he deemed he needed. This is shown by the way the team is playing well and individuals of hierarchy and there are many different types of components in his team. There are young players who have developed, and there were signings with experience and signings with a big future but if you read what is written about Chelsea you will see and hear all of these things that I have mentioned.
How many hours of DVDs of Chelsea have you watched this week?
As the competition goes on, it is ten games now, all the managers become knowledgeable about the other teams. Every manager in the Premier League can talk fundamentally about the other 19 teams.
FORM:
Chelsea Premier League form: DDWWWD
Chelsea form (all competitions): WWWWDW
Leeds United Premier League form: LWLLDW
LINEUPS:
Chelsea possible starting lineup:
Mendy; James, Zouma, Silva, Chilwell; Kovacic, Kante, Mount; Ziyech, Giroud, Werner
Leeds United possible starting lineup:
Meslier; Ayling, Koch, Cooper, Dallas; Raphinha, Klich, Phillips, Alioski; Harrison; Bamford
THATSAGOAL TIP:
Both Teams to Score – No – 5/4 with FanTeam
The Blues continued their fantastic form with a 4-0 away win over Sevilla on Wednesday. Edouard Mendy kept yet another clean sheet in goal as Chelsea’s strong defensive record was on show once again.
Frank Lampard’s side are the likely winners here but this market would cover a fourth clean sheet in six for Leeds should they manage it.

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