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COLE RESTED
Chelsea defender Ashley Cole will be rested for the game against Ipswich town according to manager Carlo Ancelotti. The home team face an anxious wait over the fitness of key players Ashley Cole, Didier Drogba and Michael Essien, who will all take late fitness tests after Cole and Essien picked up knocks in the defeat at Wolves and Drogba injured himself in training.
The FA Cup holders, playing their first game in defence of the trophy, are also without long-term absentees John Mikel Obi, Yuri Zhirkov and Yossi Benayoun, and are likely to field a mixture of first-team players and youngsters against the Championship outfit. That means Ancelotti may include young striker Daniel Sturridge, who scored five goals in a recent reserve team outing.