Chelsea will line-up in a 4-3-3 formation as follows:

1 Petr Cech
17 José Bosingwa
33 Alex
26 John Terry (c)
21 Paulo Ferreira
13 Michael Ballack
12 John Mikel Obi
8 Frank Lampard
21 Salomon Kalou
11 Didier Drogba.
39 Nicolas Anelka

Substitutes: 40 Hilario, 2 Branislav Ivanovic, 44 Michael Mancienne, 35 Juliano Belletti, 20 Deco, 43 Miroslav Stoch, 18 Ricardo Quaresma.

Villa are expected to line-up in the following 4-4-2 formation:

Friedel; Cuéllar, Knight, Davies, L Young; Milner, Petrov, Barry (c), A Young; Agbonlahor, Heskey.

Substitutes Guzan, Shorey, Salifou, Gardner, Sidwell, Delfounesco, Carew.

The referee is Mark Halsey.