Timo Werner and Tammy Abraham are the others to come into the side from the midweek draw with Wolves as Thomas Tuchel looks for his first win as Blues boss. Olivier Giroud, Hakim Ziyech, Kai Havertz and Ben Chilwell drop out.

It remains to be seen whether Abraham is joined by Werner up front in a 3-5-2 but the back three is unchanged with Thiago Silva and Toni Rudiger joining captain Cesar Azpilicueta in front of Edouard Mendy.

Mateo Kovacic and Jorginho are in midfield, with Callum Hudson-Odoi also retained in what is expected to be a wing-back role once again.

Explaining his selection, Tuchel said: ‘Marcos did not play a lot but it’s his key position, his best position. Second of all we went for him instead of Chilly because of his strength in the air. We need that for set-pieces, also defensively, and there will be many long balls to defend and many duels in the air, so for this we give Marcos a chance.’

On Hakim Ziyech's absence, he added: ‘Hakim has been in a bit of overload since five weeks so he has a bit of a risk of getting injured if he plays more than say 30 minutes. For that we decided to take a break now to go out of the risk zone. We decided this yesterday.’

Burnley make two changes from a 3-2 win against Aston Villa in midweek as former Blue Jack Cork and Matej Vydra return.

Chelsea Mendy, Azpilicueta (c), Thiago Silva, Rudiger, Hudson-Odoi, Kovacic, Jorginho, Alonso, Mount, Werner, Abraham

Subs Kepa, Christensen, Zouma, Chilwell, James, Kante, Havertz, Pulisic, Giroud

Burnley Pope; Lowton, Tarkowski, Mee (c), Pieters; Brady, Westwood, Cork, McNeil; Wood, Vydra

Subs Peacock-Farrell, Bardsley, Long, Dunne, Benson, Mumbongo, Gudmundsson, Stephens, Rodriguez

The referee is Graham Scott

Stats recap

Chelsea have lost just one of our 13 Premier League games against Burnley (nine wins, three draws), a 2-3 defeat at Stamford Bridge on the opening day of 2017/18. We are unbeaten in the six since then (five wins) with an aggregate score of 18-5.

Five of the six points Burnley have won against us in the Premier League have come at Stamford Bridge.

In the reverse fixture at Turf Moor on 31 October, the Blues won 3-0 thanks to goals from Hakim Ziyech, Kurt Zouma and Timo Werner.

We are looking to complete the league double over Burnley for the second successive season.

The Blues are hoping for a first home league win since beating West Ham 3-0 on 21 December.

Chelsea have lost two home games in all competitions in the last 22, winning 14 of them.

Only Ederson (11) and Emiliano Martinez (9) have kept more clean sheets in the Premier League than Edouard Mendy (8).