Chelsea will remain without midfielder Romeo Lavia for Monday night’s Premier League meeting with West Ham. Having only just returned from a hamstring injury suffered in December, Lavia has missed the Blues’s last two Premier League games with a fresh problem.

West Ham United are set to travel to Stamford Bridge to lock horns with Chelsea in the Premier League. The former had to settle for a 1-1 draw against Aston Villa in their previous game but will take

West Ham Forward Jarrod Bowen is set to return to action but winger Crysencio Summerville is a major doubt. Lucas Paqueta (groin) should be fit although Niclas Fullkrug, Jean-Clair Todibo and Michail Antonio are sidelined.

Chelsea host West Ham in the Premier League on Monday night at Stamford Bridge. Graham Potter returns to Stamford Bridge for the first time in the opposition dugout following his Chelsea departure in April 2023. Now managed by head coach Enzo Maresca, Chelsea are looking to bounce back from their disappointing 3-1 defeat to Manchester City.

Chelsea are very hard to fancy when assessing their odds of 1/3 with Sky Bet. They've won just one of their last seven Premier League games and were so poor in the second half at Manchester City, where their habit of allowing games to drift isn't exactly helping to convince that Enzo Maresca is the right man for the long-term.

Former Chelsea manager Graham Potter is back at the Bridge but I don't see it being a happy return for him. West Ham have actually performed well since Potter replaced Julen Lopetegui, and looked lively,

We're betting on Cole Palmer to cause West Ham more problems when the sides meet in a London derby in the Premier League on Monday, February 3.

There will be no Graham/Harry Potter gags about Chelsea’s big Monday night derby with West Ham in this column. They are getting boring now and repetitive and you can’t magic new ones out of thin air.