Tottenham vs Chelsea: preview, predictions and line-ups

Chelsea make the journey throughout London on Sunday as they tackle rivals Tottenham Hotspur within the Premier League.

The Blues scored 4 on their final journey to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with Nicolas Jackson's hat-trick beating Spurs' 9. It’s their fourth victory of their final 5 away journeys on this encounter and Enzo Maresca's favourite workforce to safe one other triumph on Sunday afternoon.

Chelsea head into the weekend's conflict in effective type, successful all 4 of their outings because the November worldwide break. Premier League wins over Leicester Metropolis, Aston Villa and Southampton noticed the Blues slim the hole on league leaders Liverpool to seven factors. With the Merseyside derby postponed this weekendthey will put stress on the Reds.

Tottenham confirmed their high quality in a thrashing of Manchester Metropolis a number of weeks in the past, however have since endured a characteristically tough interval. Attracts towards Roma and Fulham at residence had been adopted by a massively disappointing defeat at Bournemouth in midweek. Ange Postecoglou begins to face negative reactions from club supporters after one other disappointing race.

Right here is 90 minutes information to Sunday's London derby.

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Tottenham had been dealt one other defensive blow on Thursday evening as Ben Davies was taken off within the second half clutching the again of his leg. The Welsh defender, who changed the injured Micky van de Ven, will probably be unavailable this weekend.

Higher but, there's an opportunity Cristian Romero returns to the lineup this weekend. Postecoglou confirmed the Argentine defender is again in workforce coaching and could possibly be concerned in some capability towards Chelsea, with assist from Davies. injury maybe velocity up his return.

Guglielmo Vicario remains to be lacking in purpose and will probably be changed by veteran Fraser Forster, whereas Rodrigo Bentancur continues to serve his seven-match home ban. Wilson Odobert, Richarlison and Mikey Moore are additionally out of motion.

Tottenham predicted line-up towards Chelsea (4-3-3):Forster; Porro, Romero, Dragusin, Udogie; Kulusevski, Bissouma, Sarr; Johnson, Solanke, Jr.

Chelsea have a comparatively good invoice of well being forward of Sunday's derby, though three gamers are at the moment lacking with hamstring issues. Teen Omari Kellyman has been joined within the therapy room by defensive duo Reece James and Wesley Fofana in current weeks.

Mykhailo Mudryk will probably be unavailable on Sunday on account of sickness, however the remainder of Chelsea's deep squad is predicted to function. Whereas the matches promise to be fast for the Blues, Maresca may play once more for the Spurs.

Nicolas Jackson was given an evening off in the course of the 5-1 victory against Southampton and whereas his deputy Christopher Nkunku has impressed, the Senegalese is predicted to return to the beginning XI following his unimaginable begin to the marketing campaign.

Elsewhere, Robert Sanchez is predicted to return to the XI after Maresca declared he was primary in his pre-match press convention and Levi Colwill may even return to the again 4.

Chelsea predicted line-up towards Tottenham (4-2-3-1): Sanchez; Gusto, Tosin, Colwill, Cucurella; Caicedo, Fernandez; Madueke, Palmer, Neto; Jackson.

Tottenham usually save their finest performances for the massive events, however accidents and rising listlessness in north London make Chelsea the favorites this weekend. The Blues are relentless scorers underneath Maresca and will punish a light-weight protection on personnel.

Spurs will nonetheless have their very own attacking risk and are additionally more likely to disrupt a Chelsea protection that always takes large dangers. Nonetheless, confidence just isn’t excessive for Spurs after three disappointing outcomes and their London rivals are set to take benefit.

prediction: Tottenham 1-3 Chelsea

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