Late Doors For The Scores

I’ve highlighted the trend before, and we keep on seeing it, Chelsea are a second half team. That’s why we can take the value on offer for this match to be level at half-time with the Blues to win in the end at best odds of 18/5 with BetVictor.

For evidence of this pattern we can look at Chelsea’s most recent three top flight outings. They may have beaten Spurs 4-0 last time out, but it was goalless at the break. The week before it was exactly the same at Craven Cottage, before Fulham succumbed 1-3. Against Everton, the league leaders left it till injury time to break the deadlock and claim the points.

There’s every reason to think Villa will make things difficult for Mourinho’s men in the first half here as well; Paul Lambert’s team will be confident after a 4-1 win over Norwich last time out. But Chelsea’a momentum is ominous and expect the visitors’ quality to tell in the end.