Chelsea chase a seventh straight win over a struggling Tottenham
Chelsea have won the last six league meetings. Tottenham arrive sixteenth, with Bentancur suspended and four attacking players injured.
Chelsea are fourth with thirteen points from seven and scored seven in their last two league matches, at Everton and against Bournemouth. Tottenham are sixteenth with six points from one win, three draws and three defeats, and have scored six in their last five.
Chelsea look the stronger side with three goals or more in all.
Chelsea
- 1Teddy Sharman-Lowe
- 2Fofana
- 3Malo Gusto
- 4Marco Palestra
- 5Valentín Barco
- 6Romeo Lavia
- 7Mahdi Nicoll-Jazuli
- 8Estevao
- 9Danny Welbeck
Tottenham Hotspur
- 1Martin Dúbravka
- 2Marcos Senesi
- 3Conor Gallagher
- 4Dominic Solanke
- 5Dejan Kulusevski
- 6Pedro Porro
- 7Ben Davies
- 8Callum Olusesi
- 9Luca Williams-Barnett
Bentancur serves the second match of a three-match ban, and Simons, Odobert, Mudryk, Savio and Bergvall are injured, which thins both the midfield and the wide positions. Chelsea are without Emiliano Martínez in goal and without Reece James, which is why we stop short of a confident home win. Chelsea's last five league matches averaged more than three goals and Tottenham's just over two, so we lean, without much conviction, towards three goals or more.
