Chelsea vs Watford Preview

October 20, 2017
By: Deke Hardman

Saturday’s Premier League action kicks off at Stamford Bridge where champions Chelsea take on a Watford side who currently sit one place and two points above them in the table.

The hosts go in to the game having lost back-to-back Premier League games for the first time in over a year while they extended their winless run to three games after only managing to draw with Roma in the Champions League on Wednesday evening.

A return to winning ways here would see them move back into the top four at the expense of their opponents while defeat could see them end the weekend outside of the top eight, and heap the pressure onto manager Antonio Conte.

The Blues’ boss could be without David Luiz and Tiemoue Bakayoko who are both struggling with muscle problems while N’Golo Kante, Danny Drinkwater and Victor Moses are all out.

Alvaro Morata is set to return and can be backed at 3.7 (27/10) to open the scoring with Sporting Bet, with Eden Hazard at 5.8 (24/5) chance with Unibet.

The home win is widely available at 1.4 (2/5) with the visitors as highly priced as the 10.0 (9/1) on offer from Bet 365. The draw can be backed at 4.1 (41/10) with Unibet.

The Hornets came from behind to beat Arsenal last weekend to secure their fourth league win of the season while their only defeat came at the hands of leaders Manchester City over a month ago.

With no fresh injury concerns Marco Silva could name an unchanged side though Younes Kaboul, Sebastian Prodl, Craig Cathcart, Nathaniel Chalobah and Isaac Success all remaining sidelined.

Andre Gray is priced at 13.0 (12/1) to get the first goal of the game with Betfred with Troy Deeney available at the same price with the same firm.

With the championship already secured Chelsea edged out Watford in a seven goal thriller at Stamford Bridge back in May to extend their unbeaten run against the Hornets to ten games.

However, with Silva’s side in such good form and the champions wobbling you may be tempted to back an away with not to nil at 14.0 (13/1) with Betfair.

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