Chelsea will look for two wins in two in the English Premier League, but with Aston Villa pumped up after their 3-1 win over Arsenal, it will certainly not be a walk in the park for Jose Mourinho's men.
The last time the two sides met at Stamford Bridge in the Premier League, Villa were handed an 8-0 thrashing by Chelsea, and Villa skipper Ron Vlaar is confident a similar result will not be on the cards come Wednesday.
"If you can win at the Emirates, of course it is a great start. We want to do it again on Wednesday now," Vlaar said. "We all know (remember) what happened last year, so we want to put that to rest.
"We learnt a lot and we still have to learn a lot, but mentally we became a stronger team. But it is the start of the season and nobody really knows a lot about each other."
Along with Yacouba Sylla, Chris Herd and Charles N'Zogbia, who missed the opening game on Saturday, Nathan Baker is also ruled out after picking up an injury against Arsenal.
Mourinho does not have too many injuries to worry about other than defender David Luiz who is not expected to feature.
"Normally David Luiz should be available for next week," Mourinho said.
"He is not yet with the group, he is training with fitness coaches and physios. He is better but not yet ready.
"'It was not such a big surprise (Villa beat Arsenal) because Aston Villa can do that to anyone of the contenders, and if you see the stats on last season they had more points away from home than at Villa Park so they are a team with quality to play away, to play the counter-attack game they played at the Emirates."
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Expected lineups: Chelsea: Cech, Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry, Cole; Lampard, Ramires; De Bruyne, Oscar, Hazard.
Aston Villa: Guzan; Lowton, Okore, Vlaar, Luna; Westwood, Delph, El Ahmadi; Weimann, Benteke, Agbonlahor.
Prediction: 2-0 to Chelsea
