FREE ENGLAND PREMIER LEAGUE FOOTBALL GAME TIPS FOR TODAY SATURDAY 02/22/2020 | CHELSEA VS TOTTENHAM
Chelsea vs Tottenham Hotspur predictions for Saturday’s Premier League skirmish at Stamford Bridge. Chelsea host Spurs in a potentially pivotal top flight tussle. Read on for all our free Premier League predictions and betting tips.
CHELSEA VS TOTTENHAM PREDICTION = OVER 1.5
- Chelsea beat Spurs 2-0 when the teams met in Decemeber.
- Spurs will be without Son Heung-Min this weekend. The attacker scored almost two thirds of Spurs’ last seven Premier League goals.
- Under 2.5 goals were scored in three of the last four meetings between the clubs.
- Tottenham failed to register in two of their last three Premier League away games.
Lampard vs Mourinho round two
Chelsea’s potentially pivotal Premier League clash with Tottenham Hotspur in Saturday’s lunchtime kick-off is layered thick with subplot after subplot.
Spurs boss Jose Mourinho will lead his charges out against his former employers at the ground where his greatest Premier League feats were achieved, to face a Chelsea team managed by one of his most important former lieutenants, Frank Lampard.
While the fixture is of special significance for the Special One, Saturday’s tussle also looks set to be a crucial contest in the race of a top four finish this term, and ahead of the Stamford Bridge action, just one-point separates Chelsea in 4th from Spurs in 5th.
Chelsea desperate for a win
Having held that final Champions League qualification place for most of the season, Chelsea’s grip on 4th has been loosening by the week since the turn of the year.
Just one win from six Premier League assignments has seen Chelsea’s points buffer whittle right down, and now a clutch of chasing teams are within touching distance and one positive results of the Blues.
Chelsea’s 0-2 defeat at home to Manchester United on Monday felt particularly poignant, and Frank Lampard will fear that the lack of attacking thrust they showed in the game could also hamper their chances against Spurs this weekend.
Luckily for Lampard, Spurs are in the grip of a personnel crisis in the final third themselves. Already shorn of the services of Harry Kane, Tottenham lost their second most potent attacker Son Heung-Min to injury this week.
Son had scored four of Spurs’s last seven Premier League goals, hitting the net at crucial times in their wins of Norwich, Man City and Aston Villa, however with the South Korean absent, Tottenham looked completely toothless in their mid-week 0-1 Champions League reverse at home to RB Leipzig.
Chelsea have plenty of injury worries of their own to contend with up front with Tammy Abraham and Callum Hudson-Odoi struggling for fitness and Christian Pulisic on the sidelines, while N’Golo Kante’s absence from midfield this weekend will also be significant.
Goals likely to be scarce
With both clubs carrying plenty of problems in forward areas in Saturday’s fixture, we expect their respective defences to take centre stage, and with Jose Mourinho’s penchant for setting his team up in a tactically reductive way for big matches, goals are expected to be thin on the ground at Stamford Bridge.
Games between Chelsea and Spurs have been tight in recent meetings, with under 2.5 goals scored in three of their last four encounters, and with the aforementioned attack blunting factors also considered, we think there is value in backing under 2.5 goals to be scored again this weekend.
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