Chelsea vs Tottenham PREVIEW & PREDICTION 24/01/2019

The other finalist of the English FA Cup comes out this Thursday when at Stamford Bridge in London, two top teams in English football such as Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur go out for the last spot.

Chelsea :

Those led by the Italian Maurizio Sarri are at an irregular moment, so the Blues come to lose 2-0 in their visit to Arsenal and while it remains in fourth place with 47 points, staying with UEFA Champions League qualification, now the difference with the Gunners is three points so it can be said that Sarri and company have trained in pressure and more now that he has to turn a series that is losing by 0-1.

So Chelsea has only won two games of their last five commitments, but beware that these two were against teams of a lower level such as Nottingham Forest by the English FA Cup and then one of the English Premier League squads as Newcastle United , but anyway, the Blues have the local factor in their favor and they will want to take advantage of it.

Tottenham Hotspur:

On the other hand, the moment of the directed ones by Mauricio Pochettino is quite positive, thus the Spurs the last weekend obtained a victory by 1-2 in its visit to Fulham and of this way they recovered of the defeat in house before Manchester United by the slightest difference, in a defeat that has also been the only one in the last five games where the other four were victories.

So at the moment Tottenham Hotspur is in third place in the English Premier League with 51 points and although the distance with the Liverpool leader is nine points, the positive thing is that they remain firm in the UEFA Champions League competition qualifying zone. , but now they want to save the season with a title so they visit Stanford Bridge with the firm intention of maintaining that advantage of a goal.

It must be said that the Spurs have also been regular in their games away from home where they have won their last five games and have not lost in that condition for seven games and want to continue along that line against a Chelsea who have won in their last three direct confrontations, being one of those games in this scenario.


PREDICTION: Over 2.5 goals @ 1.90

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