FA Cup final: Fabregas a sub, Pedro starts

Cesc Fabregas is on the substitutes’ bench for the FA Cup final against his former club at Wembley, where Nemanja Matic partners N’Golo Kante in midfield for Chelsea.

Pedro has been given the nod over Willian, who is also among the Blues substitutes.

For Arsenal, Per Mertesacker makes his first start of the season and David Ospina starts in goal rather than former Chelsea man Petr Cech.

The Gunners are without the suspended Laurent Koscielny and the injured Gabriel, Kieran Gibbs and Shkodran Mustafi.

Chelsea: Courtois; Azpilicueta, David Luiz, Cahill (c); Moses, Kante, Matic, Alonso; Pedro, Costa, Hazard.
Subs: Begovic, Zouma, Ake, Terry, Fabregas, Willian, Batshuayi.

Arsenal: Ospina, Holding, Mertesacker (c), Monreal, Bellerin, Ramsey, Xhaka, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Ozil, Sanchez, Welbeck.
Subs: Cech, Elneny, Coquelin, Iwobi, Lucas, Walcott, Giroud.