Chelsea haven’t any sport this weekend, permitting followers to take a short break from the ache and tune in to some superior motion elsewhere – from England -Eire within the rugby to Liverpool – Man Metropolis within the Premier League.
The break from Blues agony doesn’t final lengthy although. They’re again in motion on Monday night time in a reasonably fascinating encounter towards Newcastle.
Each side have been very up and down this season, though the Magpies have gained some stability just lately, simply as we’ve had a wobble.
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Newcastle are eighth and appear like their Champions League collapse actually broken their morale. Chelsea are even additional again.
The Magpies have gained two, misplaced two and drawn one in every of their final 4, however worryingly for us their final sport was fairly a powerful win over a troublesome Wolves staff. A 3-0 victory is definitely higher than our 4-2 defeat to Gary O’Neill’s facet initially of final month – or in truth our 2-1 defeat to them on Christmas Eve.
Our first sport towards Newcastle this season was again in November, the place we had been trounced 4-1 at St James’ Park. We count on to compete higher at Stamford Bridge, the place we’ve misplaced simply as soon as in regular time in our final 13 video games in all competitions – that defeat to Wolves.
The complete week of relaxation ought to imply we see a brisker staff than the one which collapsed like a souffle within the second half towards Brentford final weekend. However Eddie Howe is a wily coach and he can have his staff tremendous properly ready to take us on.
The house benefit may also be turned towards us – there are chants towards the possession and Mauricio Pochettino nearly each week now, and Howe will know that if he can simply preserve issues tight and frustrate us at residence, the followers gained’t have a lot endurance.
Anticipate Newcastle to maintain issues compact and tight within the first half, letting the strain construct. Then they’ll look to strike within the second interval, making the most of our worryingly common drop-off after half instances. At that time the group shall be urging us ahead if we haven’t but scored, making the tempo of Alexander Isak and Anthony Gordon on the break an enormous threat for us.
This could possibly be a captivating sport – there’s little doubt it’s a giant one.
