I am worried about how the Newcastle team will play against Cheslea. The Chelsea team has shown great dominance in their last two matches. On the other hand it is Newcastle's home match. Newcastle at home will not want to drop points. And so it will be a tough task for Chelsea to get points in this match.
It looks like the bookies are starting to see Chelsea as a strong team and not underestimating them anymore, thanks to their performance in the early part of the season, which was pretty rough. The odds offered suggest that Chelsea is slightly favored over Newcastle, especially since the match is happening at St James Park. If it were at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea's odds could easily be around x1.8 or a maximum of x2.0.
This match is really hard to predict... Chelsea still hasn't completely won me over, even though their performance is gradually getting better. The return of some players from injury might be the key to the top-notch performance Chelsea could display.
I didn't check the bookies to see whether they made some adjustments to the odds for this game, but good you share this one because that is highly interesting. In the past months it was sometimes worth a bet against Chelsea when they played against some of the weak teams in the Premier League. It wasn't necessarily to bet on a loss, but to bet on Chelsea not winning the game and it turned out quite profitable sometimes. But the bookies sticked to their calculations and often gave Chelsea the favorite role. Since they now do the same against Newcastle, I wonder how deeply they went into the details to come up with these odds and favor Chelsea over Newcastle in Newcastle
I know that it is numerically only, but still there is this 1% of an edge that they see Chelsea being ahead. The rates look good for betting on Newcastle, maybe that's soon for us if we consider Chelsea as a team that is backed in the good form because we can't judge any team just because of some a few games we saw from this team. I think Newcastle has a much better chance of beating Chelsea and Mauricio Pochettino doesn't have enough magic to beat a team like Newcastle even if Newcastle players are tired of playing in the Champions League.