N'Golo Kante has been passed fit after a knee injury and starts for Chelsea in Wednesday's Europa League final against English rivals Arsenal in Baku. The Frenchman had been rated as no better than "50/50" by Chelsea coach Maurizio Sarri on the eve of the game in Azerbaijan after suffering the injury in training at the weekend.

He makes his first appearance since coming off with a hamstring injury in a 3-0 win over Watford on May 5. That problem forced him to sit out Chelsea's last two games.

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Olivier Giroud, a scorer of 10 goals in 13 Europa League appearances this season, is preferred to Gonzalo Higuain up front for Chelsea against his old club, while Emerson Palmieri is chosen ahead of Marcos Alonso at left-back.

Eden Hazard also starts in what could be his last game for the club amid reports that a transfer to Real Madrid is imminent. For Arsenal, Petr Cech gets the nod in goal in his final match before retiring. He has been linked with a return to Chelsea, his old side, in an upstairs role.

Chelsea has injury concerns of their own, with Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Antonio Rudiger and Callum Hudson-Odoi all missing. Henrikh Mkhitaryan is missing after not travelling because of fears over his safety due to an ongoing political dispute between Azerbaijan and his home country, Armenia.

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