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Chelsea vs Huddersfield Prediction & Betting tips
Chelsea was beaten by AFC Bournemouth on Wednesday-evening. On Saturday afternoon, Maurizio Sarri’s team has to recover when Huddersfield Town is the opponent on Stamford Bridge. With any other result than a home victory, the pressure will increase in West London.
Chelsea:
At Chelsea, they no longer have Champions League qualification in their own hands. The Blues were in fourth place in the Premier League in recent months, but due to a number of poor results Chelsea is now fifth. The formation of Maurizio Sarri has as many points as number four Arsenal and the same goal difference. Arsenal scored only ten goals more than The Blues and they also have a better mutual result. Manchester United (two points behind Chelsea and Arsenal) also compete for fourth place, which gives right to Champions League football at the end of the season.
That Chelsea is fifth has everything to do with the last game of The Blues. On Wednesday, Chelsea visited AFC Bournemouth and The Blues were already shown last season by The Cherries. In-house Chelsea lost 0-3 to Bournemouth and last Wednesday the club from West London lost 4-0 at the Vitality Stadium. It was a dramatic show of The Blues, who also had to collect all four hits after the break. It was only the second time for Chelsea that the club lost a Premier League-duel with four goals or more and there was of course plenty of criticism of Sarri and his team during the past few days. Rightly, a club like Chelsea can not beat Bournemouth 4-0. Because of the defeat, all sorts of statistics came up again and it shows that, after 24 games, Sarri now has fewer points than Antonio Conte last season (47 at 50). It is absurd, of course, to pay the Italian, because he does Chelsea good football but if he does not qualify for the Champions League then Roman Abramovich also has little patience.
Huddersfield Town:
The players at Huddersfield Town have seen Wednesday night how to fight Chelsea. The question is whether Huddersfield is capable of just such a stunt as AFC Bournemouth. The answer seems no. Huddersfield Town is not for nothing the last minute of the Premier League and has much less quality than a club like Bournemouth. The number of triumphs of The Terriers is not for nothing at two and the league must go crazy if Huddersfield Town does not want to relegate to the Championship. The problem at Huddersfield Town is mainly in the forefront. The number of goals scored by The Terriers this season is only thirteen. By comparison, competitors Fulham (25) and Cardiff City (20) scored much more often.
In the last four games Huddersfield Town did not score. Not even Tuesday evening when Jan Siewert was sitting on the couch for the first time at The Terriers. Huddersfield Town got Tuesday at Everton’s own John Smith’s Stadium visit and The Terriers went 0-1 against the number eight of the competition. Terence Kongolo and his teammates also did not score against Everton and Huddersfield Town has not scored in exactly half of the home games.
Chelsea vs Huddersfield head to head matches
11.08.18 PL Huddersfield Chelsea 0 : 3
09.05.18 PL Chelsea Huddersfield 1 : 1
12.12.17 PL Huddersfield Chelsea 1 : 3
16.02.08 FAC Chelsea Huddersfield 3 : 1
07.01.06 FAC Chelsea Huddersfield 2 : 1