Shocking or not, Chelsea showed weakness at home, and Londoners lost to Sunderland with 0:3. Can Birmingham use that to get something out of this game?
Currently the team is taking 18th spot, with 13 points in 13 games and a home record of W2 D3 L1. Being in the red zone should ring some bells that the team needs to start gathering points, or it will be bye bye premier league next season.
Chelsea started the season very well, winning game after game, but here we are in a time where they recorded 2 losses in 3 rounds, a loss away against Liverpool and a loss at home against Sunderland.
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Besides that, the team is still the current leader with 28 points in 13 games and an away record of W3 D1 L2. Not very impressive away from London eh? And if that’s not bad enough throw in the injured key players like John Terry, Frank Lampard and Alex.
Terry and Lampard are expected to return in December, while Alex’s injury seems a bit worse, and we should see him return around January.
In the direct games, it seems that Chelsea has a lot of trouble on this stadium against Birmingham. The only victory of the Blues that has had more than 1 goal difference has been back in February 8th 2003, when they have won with 3:1.
This is also the only game where Birmingham has been able to score a goal. In all other 5 games that follow this one, the score has been either 0:0 or 0:1 in favor of Chelsea. In all six games, Chelsea has achieved 3 victories and 3 draw games. A failure here might cost them the first spot, if Arsenal manages to get the 3 points against Tottenham.
Birmingham has lost only 1 in the last 21 Premier league games at St. Andrews, which makes them a tough host, despite the low table spot they are taking. In the last 8 games here Birmingham has either scored 2 goals or not at all.
It seems like the safest betting option here is to go with the fewer goals in this game, hence Under 2.5 Goals. An away victory is also very possible, since Chelsea has no more room for errors if they want to keep their leader position. The questions are, do you trust them enough to back them in this game and are the odds of 1.72(Bet365) worth the trouble?
Recommended Bet:
Under 2.5 Goals @ 1.80
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