It is the first major final of the domestic season as Manchester City and Chelsea meet in the Carabao Cup final at Wembley.
Sunday afternoon, preceded by a huge Premier League game between Manchester United and Liverpool, as well as Southampton’s trip to Arsenal.
Maurizio Sarri’s team have no major injury concerns with Ruben Loftus-Cheek likely to be available for selection as he recovers from a lingering back problem.
Gonzalo Higuain started Chelsea’s 6-0 defeat at Manchester City when Sarri persisted with his preferred 4-3-3 system, and it remains to be seen if he will tweak that formula to avoid a similar outcome.
Sergio Aguero was deemed unfit and sat out City’s comfortable FA Cup victory at Newport, but is expected to return and start against the team he put three past only a few weeks ago.
Vincent Kompany, Benjamin Mendy, Fabian Delph and Claudio Bravo have all been absentees since the turn of the year with Oleksandr Zinchenko deputising at left-back in the league game against Chelsea.