S.P.Read Esq: Chelsea v Liverpool

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

High noon at Stamford Bridge on Saturday for the Premier League clash of Chelsea and Liverpool (12.45pm BT SPORT).

Liverpool gained their first win under the Klopp era with their midweek victory over Bournemouth in the Capital One Cup and whilst by no means over-convincing it was a damn sight better than Chelsea’s exit from the same competition at the hands of Stoke in a penalty shoot out.

In short, there is far more pressure on Chelsea in this game. They have staggeringly won just one of their last seven games and that was against lowly Aston Villa. The Blues have only kept two clean sheets in their last 13 Premier League games contributing to them sitting just 15th in the table – five points off the relegation zone !! No surprise then that it’s their worst EVER start to a Premier League campaign.

Jose Mourinho appears to be increasingly delusional. He said: “The results are, especially in my case, in your eyes [the media], the results are everything. It’s a bit strange because a few months ago when I won so many matches and I was champion of England, people were saying there were things more important than the results. In this moment the results are more important than anything. It’s a contradiction.”

MEMO TO JOSE: The results, just like a camera, never lie.

Jurgen Klopp countered: “Do the Chelsea players not know any more how to play football? No, of course not. I am not sure it is easier to play Chelsea now than last year – why should it be? Okay, being full of self-confidence maybe makes some things different, but to be wounded can make you stronger too. They don’t feel life is as good as it could be and now they want to change it and that is big motivation.”

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

HEAD TO HEAD RECORD
(Maximum 10 matches)
May 2015 PREMIER Chelsea 1-1 Liverpool
Jan 2015 CAPITAL ONE CUP Chelsea 1-0 Liverpool
Jan 2015 CAPITAL ONE CUP Liverpool 1-1 Chelsea
Nov 2014 PREMIER Liverpool 1-2 Chelsea
Apr 2014 PREMIER Liverpool 0-2 Chelsea
Dec 2013 PREMIER Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool
Apr 2013 PREMIER Liverpool 2-2 Chelsea
Nov 2012 PREMIER Chelsea 1-1 Liverpool
May 2012 PREMIER Liverpool 4-1 Chelsea
May 2012 ENGLISH FA CUP Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool

There are not too many positives to draw from either side at the moment and although Chelsea are unbeaten in their last eight league and cup games against Liverpool in their current mood even a draw might be considered a ‘result’.

The bookings market on Star Spreads makes most appeal. I failed on Thursday to get there at Elland Road – although two yellows in injury time reduced the chronic pain. Mark Clattenburg is in charge at Stamford Bridge and he is averaging 44 points this season. The same fixture last season made up at 70 and the year before 50 so I am hopeful that a buy at 50 on Star Spreads shouldn’t have too much downside.

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