Chelsea have the chance to add more goals to their impressive start to the season as they will face a second newly-promoted side in the space of five days on Saturday when they host Leicester City at Stamford Bridge. The Blues recorded a 3-1 away victory at Burnley on Monday, fighting back in superb fashion from 1-0 down on 13 minutes. Diego Costa scored on his debut while fellow new signing Cesc Fabregas delivered an impressive performance.
Leicester had a good start as well as they snatched a 2-2 draw at home against Everton, coming back from behind twice. Danny Drinkwater got injured during that match though and he could miss Saturday's match against Chelsea. Marc Albrighton and Jamie Vardy are in doubt while central defender Matthew Upson remains sidelined with a foot injury.
Petr Cech could be on the bench again for Chelsea as Mourinho preferred Thibaut Courtois as his number one on Monday. New signing Filipe Luis might be on the bench again as Cesar Azpilicueta will most likely be the first-choice left back.
Probable starting line-ups:
Chelsea: Courtois - Ivanovic, Terry, Cahill, Azpilicueta - Matic, Fabregas - Schurrle, Oscar, Hazard - Costa
Leicester: Schmeichel - De Laet, Moore, Morgan, Konchesky - Mahrez, Hammond, King, Knockaert - Ulloa, Nugent
My prediction: Chelsea to win 3-0.
Here are the odds for the match at Bet365:
Chelsea win - 1/5 Draw - 13/2 Leicester win - 16/1
Snoop 9 years ago
Diego Costa showed again that he is a great player, Chelsea is playing good and I have same opinion, Chelsea can win Premier League, they have great coach, great goalkeeper, very good defance, in the middle they are very strong, attack brilliant, they have top players on all positions...
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skrunici 9 years ago
It was good match... Leicester has his chanse but chelsea show who is the boss and maybe first candidat for winning league, with manchester city of course. So this is routine for chelsea and they will play a lot of maches like this, special at home versus weaker opponents.
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Snoop 9 years ago
Hm, too high odds on Leicester, CHelsea is better, but I think that odds should be higher than 1.15, Leicester show in first game that they know how to play, good game in Liverpool, 2-2 against Everton is big succes, Chelsea was good in first game, but they can better. Chelsea should win, but I won't play that because odds...
Hm, too high odds on Leicester, CHelsea is better, but I think that odds should be higher than 1.15, Leicester show in first game that they know how to play, good game in Liverpool, 2-2 against Everton is big succes, Chelsea was good in first game, but they can better. Chelsea should win, but I won't play that because odds are not good..
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