Chelsea vs Nottingham Forest official line-ups: Team news ahead of FA Cup match today

Frank Lampard will hope to end a poor run of home form in the third round tie

Chelsea's Christian Pulisic in action (Action Images via Reuters)

Chelsea look to correct their home troubles with the visit of Championship side Nottingham Forest in the FA Cup third round.

Frank Lampard will ring the changes and offer more minutes to some of the best prospects from the Blues academy.

Forest, meanwhile, have promotion ambitions this season, and currently sit joint third, nine points off the automatic promotion spots.

They will be confident of exposing a lack of continuity in this Chelsea side and pulling off a big third round upset.

Here are the predicted line-ups.

What time is it?

The game is at 2:01pm GMT on Sunday 5 January.

Where can I watch it?

The game is not on TV in the UK.

But you can follow the game on Independent Football.

Official line-ups

Chelsea: Caballero, James, Tomori, Christensen, Emerson, Jorginho, Kovacic, Barkley, Pedro, Batshuayi, Hudson-Odoi. ​​

Nottingham Forest: Smith, Jenkinson, Dawson, Figueiredo, Ribeiro, Yates, Semedo, Carvalho, Johnson, Mighten, Adomah

Prediction

Chelsea will be much changed with Frank Lampard showing a clear desire to sprinkle more youth in his side, though he may hand Michy Batshuayi and Olivier Giroud a chance to put themselves in the shop window. Forest will be confident after a solid first half of the season and will likely have chances given the turnover at the back for the Blues. But we'll go with the extra firepower with the hosts to prevail.

Chelsea 3-2 Nottingham Forest

Odds

Chelsea: 2/11

Draw: 11/2

Nottingham Forest: 11/1