An early round FA Cup tie at Stamford Bridge against lower-league opposition. It can mean only one thing - a rare sighting of some of the club’s lesser-seen squad players.
Among them Michy Batshuayi, whose natural habitat this season has very much been the substitutes’ bench with just the occasional runaround lasting a few minutes.
He may have cost Chelsea a hefty £33million last summer, but the Belgian’s longest outing in the Premier League so far has been a mere 19 minutes.
So effective are Chelsea without him, Antonio Conte has only been able to offer Batshuayi scraps of game time, usually in fixtures such as this.