S.P. Read Esq: Watford v Chelsea
Our daily columnist and pundit S.P. Read Esq. looks ahead to Monday’s Premier League game between WATFORD v CHELSEA and finds the best opportunities available on Star Spreads, the home of sports spread betting.
Monday Night football at Vicarage Road tonight with Chelsea the visitors and a temperature prediction of ZERO degrees (c) BBC Weather !!
The last three meetings between this pair have produced 16 goals but the way Chelsea are playing at the moment, if there are goals again tonight, you couldn’t be certain which net they will end up in…
The champions are in a slump make no mistake. A shocking 3-0 defeat at home by Bournemouth last time capped a miserable start to the year which has seen them knocked out of the EFL Cup and needing penalties to get past Norwich in the FA Cup.
I think Watford are a side that always seem to be under-rated by the layers. Certainly, I can’t really have much interest in Chelsea at 1/2 with Star Sports but note with interest (and puzzlement) that they have been backed in from 8/13 at lunchtime – for a Premier League game that’s quite a percentage move.
The big problem if you fancy Watford getting something out of the game is that their current form is poor. They have failed to score in their last three games. They will also be without Tom Cleverley and new signing Didier Ndong is serving the final game of a three-match suspension.
Watford’s 11th place in the table masks the fact that they are, incredibly, just three points off the drop zone.
Watford’s head coach Javi Gracia: said: ”I’m excited. I’m looking forward to it and I’m going to make sure I enjoy it.
“I always prepare a match like we’ll win. When I’m in the office and I move the players, I win. It’s my attitude and I’m positive.
“I’m always stressed and I don’t mind what anyone else thinks. I always want to win and it is always the same pressure. It doesn’t matter what club we play against.”
Confidence in his counterpart Antonio Conte will fall as low as the temperatures if Chelsea don’t get something from this – especially against a side which they are unbeaten against in 13 matches.
Watford v Chelsea
Premier League
20:00 Sky Sports Premier / Sky Sports Main Event / Sky Sports Ultra HD
HEAD TO HEAD
(Maximum 10 matches)
Oct 2017 PREMIER Chelsea 4-2 Watford
May 2017 PREMIER Chelsea 4-3 Watford
Aug 2016 PREMIER Watford 1-2 Chelsea
Feb 2016 PREMIER Watford 0-0 Chelsea
Dec 2015 PREMIER Chelsea 2-2 Watford
Jan 2015 FA CUP Chelsea 3-0 Watford
Jan 2010 FA CUP Chelsea 5-0 Watford
Fev 2009 FA CUP Watford 1-3 Chelsea
Mar 2007 PREMIERSHIP Watford 0-1 Chelsea
Nov 2006 PREMIERSHIP Chelsea 4-0 Watford
There should be goals again and I’m a seller of the first Chelsea goal at 42 minutes in the hope and expectation that we will see a quick reaction to their Bournemouth nightmare.
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