Chelsea vs Tottenham Hotspur Preview

May 2, 2016
By: Deke Hardman

Harry Kane

Monday night’s Premier League action comes from Stamford Bridge where Chelsea face a Tottenham Hotspur side who know that anything other than victory would hand the title to Leicester City.

The hosts go in to the game on the back of a 4-1 win over Bouremouth – a result which came after back-to-back defeats to Swansea City and Manchester City.

Three points here would see them leapfrog Stoke City into ninth place and would keep alive their slim hopes of finishing in a European qualification place.

John Terry and Gary Cahill are both available and are pushing for centre-back starting berths, with the former missing ten of the last twelve games and the latter ruled out of last weeks with at the Vitality Stadium.

Diego Costa is priced at 7.0 (6/1) to get the first goal of the game with William Hill, ahead of 10.0 (9/1) chance Pedro.

The home win is 2.75 (7/4) with most firms, with the visitors favourites at 2.63 (13/8) with Bet 365. The draw is widely available at 3.6 (13/5).

Mauricio Pochettino’s side, who are playing on Monday evening for the third straight week are unbeaten in five games, but dropped two points in last week’s encounter with West Bromwich Albion.

They must win here to keep alive their hopes of winning a first league title since 1961 after leaders Leicester drew at Manchester United on Sunday afternoon.

Eric Dier may miss out after suffering concussion last time out while Nabil Bentaleb has a knee injury and Dele Alli begins a three match suspension.

Top scorer Harry Kane, who is closing in on the Premier League Golden Boot, is favourite to open the scoring at 5.5 (9/2) with a number of bookmakers with Christian Eriksen available at 10.0 (9/1).

The two sides played out a goalless draw when they met at White Hart Lane back in November though the Blues have scored at least twice in the four clashes previous to that, and you can back them to do so this time around at 2.25 (5/4) with Coral.

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