Finally Graham Potter will be managing his first Chelsea league match as the Blues travel across London to Selhurst Park.
The manager has had two cancelled games and one completed Champions League fixture but now he awaits a mountain of 13 games before the international break-up for the winter World Cup, and attention is firmly back on club football again.
Potter, who ironically will have his first game against one of Brighton's oldest rivals, knows the importance of a good start to build confidence heading into a period that will make recovery and overturning poor performances tough.
