SSN BET - Match of the Day: Chelsea - Tottenham / 24.01.2019

Hello! Today in England will be quite an interesting match between Chelsea and Tottenham at Stamford Bridge. Tottenham need to keep the advantage in one ball, and Chelsea today is sure to debut a newcomer to the attack.

CHELSEA

Chelsea is going through a rather difficult period. If at the start of the season "pensioners" fought with Liverpool and Manchester City for leadership in the Premier League, now the "blue" are close to losing a place in the Champions League zone. In the last five official matches, the team Maurizio Sarri scored only two wins. In the FA Cup, Chelsea beat Nottingham (2-0), and in the championship, "pensioners" defeated Newcastle (2-1). However, in the home match, the "blue" also failed to put pressure on Southampton (0-0), and lost to Arsenal (0-2) last weekend. However, at home, Chelsea has lost only once this season. In the recent match, the team of Sarri lost to Stamford Leicester (0-1). With the teams of the top 6 in their arena, the Blue played well. "Pensioners" won at home Manchester City (2-0), Arsenal (3-2), with Liverpool played a draw (1-1), and with Manchester United (2-2). There are practically no injuries at the moment in Chelsea. Questionable participation Ruben Loftus-Chick.

TOTTENHAM

Tottenham has a lot more problems with the composition. Harri Kane, Delle Alli, Moussa Sissoko and Victor Wanyama are injured, and Son Heung Min plays for the national team at the Asian Cup. Tottenham managed to defeat Fulham on the road only by some miracle, but Delle Alli was on the team, scoring one of the goals. Now Pochettino is still worse. The only thing that fans of “spurs” can enjoy is the fact that the entire defensive line of the club is in perfect order. Before the victory over Fulham, Tottenham won seven of nine fights, having managed to beat Arsenal away (2-0) during the period, defeat Everton (6-2), Bournemouth (5-0), and Cardiff (3-0), as well as minimally beat Burnley (1-0) and Chelsea (1-0). However, the Pochettino guys with a full-fledged composition made it all. In addition, for the specified segment Tottenham unexpectedly lost to Wolverhampton at home (1-3) and in a recent bout lost to MU (0-1), owning the full territorial advantage. However, Tottenham has a five-match winning away game for the duel with Chelsea.

STATISTICS AND PERSONAL MEETINGS

• Chelsea won only four of the last eight official matches.
• In six of these meetings, the “total less than 2.5” bet was played.
• Tottenham won in seven of the nine previous official matches.
  “The winning guest series Spurs has reached five official meetings.
• Only in one of these five matches, the total less than 2.5 bet was played.
• Tottenham beat Chelsea in all three in-person fights. This season, the Spurs defeated the “pensioners” at home (3-1), and the Pochettino team won the Stamford Bridge in the past championship with exactly the same score.

So let's summarize. Since, for various reasons, the entire Tottenham attack will not be able to play in this match, Mauricio Pochettino has no choice but to focus on defense and try to keep the advantage gained. For Mauricio Sarri, this match is also extremely important, to help him came from Milan Gonzalo Higuain with whom he once worked together in Napoli. The fight today will be serious, Tottenham has just one goal advantage. However, we are unlikely to see a lot of goals today.

Chelsea - Tottenham 1X + Total Less 3 with 1.74 for 3% of bank

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