Categories: Soccer Predictions

Chelsea – Newcastle (PREDICTION 28.01.2018)

Chelsea – Newcastle – On Sunday, the program left two matches of the fourth round of the English FA Cup, and only in the first of them are two first-team players, the current Chelsea champion, currently in the third place on the Premiership table and returnee among elites, Newcastle, who is 24th on the 24th place and has 27 points less than the “blonde”. Let’s add that their mutual performance in December ended with the home win of Chelsea by 3: 1.

Chelsea
Of course, all of these data are now being played by the London squad and now in the FA Cup, especially because they are playing at their Stamford Bridge, where in the previous round they played a great deal against Norwich, and only went through the better penalties. After that match, Conte’s coaches came to the top 4-0 win over Brighton and returned to third place in the Premier League table.
However, during last week’s match, the League Cup semi-finals defeated 2: 1 at Arsenal, which also meant a top spot in the big finals, as their first Stamford Bridge duel ended with no goals. That is why we are confident that Conte will now be able to relieve most of his star players in the FA Cup, while for the injury they are still questioned by the goalkeeper Courtois, the Fabregas midfielder and the striker Williana and Morate.
Chelsea: Caballero – Rudiger, David Luiz, Cahill – Zappacosta, Drinkwater, Bakayoko, Alonso – Barkley, Batshuayi, Pedro

Newcastle
As far as Newcastle is concerned, they are expected to be defeated 3: 1 at their first run at Manchester City, so they only have one point surplus compared to teams in the fallout zone. In addition, the popular “rushes” had two domestic strikes against their direct competitors in the survival struggle, Brighton and Swansea, before they came to the “citizens”, while on the other hand they had a great victory of 1: 0 on their way to Stoke.
In that period, they also routinely worked in the FA Cup against the low-league club of Luton, home to a 3: 1 home, so experienced coach Benitez could generally be satisfied with the current form of his choice, especially since they are still above the dangerous zone championship. However, they are expecting the biggest challenges now and for that reason, we can expect a lot of changes in the early 11 on Sundays, while defensive players Mbemba, Lejeune and Gamez and attacker Mitrović are injured.