The head coach has chosen to fully deploy his team in the cup competitions this season, and that policy will continue at Stamford Bridge for the visit of the Armenian team.

Maresca has made two changes to the team that started in Newcastle last Wednesday. In addition to the selection of 18-year-old George from the field, Marc Guiu returns to the team. It is his first start since the two qualifying matches in this competition against Servette.

Marc Cucurella and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall are the players who drop out after the League Cup defeat on Tyneside.

This means that Filip Jorgensen is in goal. The defense consists of Axel Disasi, Tosin Adarabioyo, Benoit Badiashile and Renato Veiga.

Captain Enzo Fernandez continues in midfield with Joao Felix, Mykhailo Mudryk and Christopher Nkunku all providing attacking options alongside George and Guiu.

Chelsea: Jorgensen; Disasi, Tosin, Badiashile, Veiga; Fernandez (c); George, Joao Felix, Nkunku, Mudryk; Guiu

substitutes: Sanchez, Merrick, Cucurella, Gusto, Dewsbury-Hall, Rak-Sakyi, Casadei, Chukwuemeka, Madueke

Noah: Chancharevich, Muradian, Hambartsumyan (c), Miljkovic, Manvelyan, Eteki, Sangare, Ferreira, Gregorio, Cinari, Goncalo Silva

substitutes: Ploshchadnyi, Thorarinsson, Aias, Dashyan, Mendoza, Avanesian, Santos, Petrsoyan, Oulad Omar, Pinson

The referee is Christian-Petru Ciochirca from Austria