Heidenheim vs Chelsea
One of the most peculiar UEFA Europa Conference League games of the 2024–2025 season has its team sheets in. Heidenheim, a little Swabian village, gets ready to host Chelsea FC, an English powerhouse, in the Voith Arena, which has 15,000 seats. According to the transfer market listings, Enzo Maresca’s squad is worth over 120 times as much as the players on Frank Schmidt’s FCH team.
Schmidt makes five changes to the squad that lost badly to Bayer 04 Leverkusen, the league’s reigning champions, on Saturday. Lead striker Marvin Pieringer is still out due to an injury sustained during the loss, as Schmidt has already mentioned. Pieringer is replaced upfront by Mikkel Kaufmann. Adrian Beck is replaced by German sensation Paul Wanner, who is also fit enough to start.
Jan Schöppner, Jonas Föhrenbach, and Benedikt Gimber alternate with Tim Siersleben, Leonardo Scienza, and Norman Theuerkauf. Schmidt is expected to use a 4-2-3-1 formation, with Niklas Dorsch and Lennard Maloney playing a double-six in the middle. After some tactical experiments on Saturday went badly, all players are now back in their natural places.
Verified lineups for Chelsea vs. Heidenheim
Chelsea (4-4-2):
Renato Veiga-Dewsbury-Hall, B. Badiashile, Adarabioyo, Jörgensen-Disasi, Car. Chukwuemeka, Mudryk, Sancho-Guin, Nkunku
(4-2-3-1) Heidenheim:
Theuerkauf – Maloney, Dorsch – Leo Scienza, Wanner, Honsak – Kaufmann, Ke. Müller – Traoré, P. Mainka, Siersleben
