Chelsea allegedly find themselves at the centre of an embarrassing rules mix-up ahead of Tuesday's EFL Cup third-round tie against Lincoln City .

The Blues make the trip to Sincil Bank having suffered consecutive defeats to Bayern Munich and Manchester United respectively.

Enzo Maresca is expected to take the opportunity to make mass alterations to his starting lineup given the club's exhausting efforts at the Club World Cup during the summer.

With Joao Pedro having accumulated a lot of minutes since the semi-final of that competition, a change could be made in attack, and Chelsea would have ideally wanted to use Marc Guiu .

The Spaniard represented Sunderland in the second round against Huddersfield Town during his brief loan spell at the Stadium of Light.

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