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Petr Cech starts his second Chelsea match in succession as Thibaut Courtois is named on the bench again.
The Belgian international was relegated to the Blues bench following the 5-3 defeat to Tottenham at White Hart Lane.
TEAMS IN FULL
Swansea starting XI: Fabianski, Tiendalli, Fernandez, Williams, Taylor, Carroll, Sigurdsson, Dyer, Oliveira, Routledge, Gomis
Substitutes: Tremmel, Rangel, Amat, Bartley, Fulton, Emnes, Barrow.
Chelsea starting XI: Cech; Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry, Filipe Luis; Matic, Fabregas; Willian, Oscar, Hazard; Diego Costa.
Substitutes: Courtois, Zouma, Mikel, Ramires, Schurrle, Salah, Remy.
How times have changed for Eden Hazard. On his last visit to Swansea two years ago, he was sent off for kicking a ball boy — now the Belgium winger finds himself on the receiving end of some wild tackles most weeks.
Hazard has taken his talents on to a whole new level and statistics showed recently that his ‘reward’ is to be the most fouled player in the Premier League. Chelsea will be hoping he hurts Swansea at the other end to give the Blues a much-needed away win after dropping points at Southampton and Tottenham.
