Quote from: twiki on Today at 01:22:04 PM

Quote from: Velvet78 on Today at 12:12:01 PM

Chelsea have such a challenging fixture these days. They are going to play away against Newcastle next time after leaving other big games behind consecutively. However Chelsea seemed really promising in those games. I'm not sure about whether they would have beaten Tottenham anyway if Tottenham didn't get any red card though. But especially that effort against Manchester City under bad weather conditions was marvelous!

Can they maintain this effort against Newcastle as well? I say why not. Because Newcastle are quite unbalanced recently. They are still one of the best home teams in the league though but it is the same for Chelsea in away games too. I think Chelsea will leave by at least one point here.

Indeed, they have a difficult match ahead of them. But something tells me that the match will end in Chelsea's favor. It's time to show the blue ones who's boss. Plus a couple of points wouldn't hurt them now. In turn, Newcastle was well prepared for this battle.

It is very likely that Chelsea will secure full points in the match against Newcastle, even though Pochettino squad will act as the visiting team. I think it's very reasonable, because the Blues have experienced an improvement in performance by successfully beating Tottenham and forcing Man City to share points in the previous match. Actually, Eddie Howe's squad also has a chance to make a surprise, but currently many Newcastle players are injured.

Eddie Howe is missing 13 players, some of whom are injured and some of whom are suspended, so I think it's very reasonable that Chesela will take advantage of their weaknesses to secure full points. You could say Newcastle was just lucky because they played in front of their own supporters, otherwise their situation was very complicated.