Romeo Lavia is out of action for weeks and will miss Chelsea ’s away game against Manchester City on Saturday. The Belgian international, who endured a torrid first campaign with Chelsea last term due to injury, has a muscle problem. He picked up the issue against Bournemouth and missed Monday night’s 3-1 win over Wolves.

Choosing that best-available lineup was evidently not too hard. In fact, seven of the eleven starters got votes well into the 80s and upper 90s as far as percentages were concerned, including Trevoh Chalobah, whom I left off the initial voting form but who got around 85% of the vote after his late addition.

Manchester City have announced three signings over the past week. Abdukodir Khusanov, Vitor Reis and Omar Marmoush have all joined Pep Guardiola’s squad this week. It now seems that Manchester