S.P.Read Esq: Chelsea v Arsenal

Our daily columnist and pundit S.P. Read Esq. looks ahead to the Premier League game at 12.45pm between CHELSEA v ARSENAL and finds the best opportunities available on Star Spreads, the home of sports spread betting.

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Early action today and it really is high noon for Chelsea who face Arsenal in what should by a very revealing game.

Chelsea had a comfortable win midweek in their Champions League Group match against Macabi Tel Aviv which will have given them some much needed confidence.

It was the opposite case with Arsenal who suffered a defeat on their travels to Dinamo Zagreb.

STARTING LINE-UPS

Chelsea
01 Begovic
02 Ivanovic
24 Cahill
05 Zouma
28 Azpilicueta
04 Fàbregas
21 Matic
17 Pedro
08 Oscar
10 Hazard
19 Diego Costa

Arsenal
33 Cech
24 Bellerín
05 Gabriel
06 Koscielny
18 Monreal
34 Coquelin
19 Cazorla
16 Ramsey
11 Özil
17 Sánchez
14 Walcott

It wouldn’t be Chelsea unless their were rumours flying around about Mourinho. The latest being that he is begining to ‘lose’ the dressing room.

Mourinho hit back at the newspaper speculation by saying: “I don’t have any problem with any one of my players. Normally when bad results happen the first thing that comes into your laptops, iPads and pens is to find a dramatic story: ‘Somebody punch somebody in the dressing room’, ‘The manager doesn’t want to speak with this guy’. You (the media) always go in this direction, which is funny. The other direction you don’t go is the direction which is real. You lose matches, you are affected, you lose confidence, you don’t want the ball.”

As bad as Chelsea have been in the Premier League this season Arsenal have not exactly been firing on all cylinders themselves. They did beat Chelsea pre-season in the Community Shield but over the years Mourinho has always seemed to hold the ace cards over Mourinho.

Chelsea v Arsenal
Premier League
12:45 BT Sport 1 / BT Sport 1 HD / BT Sport Ultra HD

HEAD TO HEAD
(Maximum 10 matches)
Aug 2015 COMMUNITY SHIELD Arsenal 1-0 Chelsea
Apr 2015 PREMIER Arsenal 0-0 Chelsea
Oct 2014 PREMIER Chelsea 2-0 Arsenal
Mar 2014 PREMIER Chelsea 6-0 Arsenal
Dec 2013 PREMIER Arsenal 0-0 Chelsea
Oct 2013 CAPITAL ONE Arsenal 0-2 Chelsea
Jan 2013 PREMIER Chelsea 2-1 Arsenal
Sep 2012 PREMIER Arsenal 1-2 Chelsea
Apr 2012 PREMIER Arsenal 0-0 Chelsea
Oct 2011 PREMIER Chelsea 3-5 Arsenal

I can’t find any reasons to back Chelsea.

I can’t find any reasons to back Arsenal.

The booking market makes plenty of interest in what is sure to be a high-tempo and hopefully bad tempered (!!) game as I am a buyer of bookings at 56. Mike Dean certainly isn’t afraid to dish out the cards.

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