Chelsea (4-3-3): Petr Cech; Ashley Cole, John Terry, David Luiz, Jose Bosingwa; Raul Meireles, Frank Lampard, Ramires; Juan Mata, Fernando Torres, Florent Malouda.
Substitutes from: Ross Turnbull, Paulo Ferreira, Sam Hutchinson, Josh McEachran, Romelu Lukaku, Oriol Romeu, Ryan Bertrand.
Portsmouth (4-4-1-1): Stephen Henderson; Joel Ward, Jason Pearce, Ricardo Rocha, Greg Halford; Liam Lawrence, David Norris, Aaron Mokoena, Hayden Mullins; Dave Kitson; Marko Futacs.
Substitutes from: Jamie Ashdown, Tal Ben-Haim, Hermann Hreidarsson, Adam Webster, Ryan Williams, Erik Huseklepp, Benjani.
Chelsea in a mood to make a statement, it seems.