Runaway Premier League leaders Chelsea are in FA Cup action on Saturday against Championship Wolves at Molinuex and I can\’t see any cup upset in this one.
Paul Lambert\’s side produced a huge shock in the last round with a win at Anfield against Liverpool and despite Antonio Conte expected to ring the changes with his side a big odds-on favourite to win the title I fully expect the Italian to go all out to win the double in the his first season at Stamford Bridge.
The bookies are in agreement with me and make the Londoner\’s a general 1.36 chance to make the quarter-finals for yet another year and that looks a good thing, but I can\’t take the risk on heavy odds on sides in this competition with motivation a big question mark for the top sides.
Despite Chelsea making those changes in should come club captain John Terry and a whole hot of other international players will feature and they I am expecting them to win to nil, something that they\’ve done in five of their last six road trips and the 2.30 with Paddy Power and William Hills on that happening again looks the call.
Wolves, did beat Liverpool in the last round but lightning won\’t strike again and even at odds of 10.00 it\’s still very difficult to any make a case for the Championship side whilst they are still involved in a relegation battle which is the priority in the west midlands.
Diego Costa is the bookies favourite to open the goal scoring at 4.00 which given that the fiery Spaniard isn\’t expected to start and that looks a wrong price to me.
Michy Batshuayi is the man expected to fill in for Costa and the young Belgium offers a huge goal threat and with him much more likely to feature I prefer him at the general 4.50 in what I am expecting to be a typical professional 1-0 Chelsea win at 8.00 with Bet365 and BetVictor.
STAR: Chelsea to win to nil at 13/20 with Paddy Power and at William Hill.
NEXT BEST: Michy Batshuayi to open the goal scoring at 7/2 with most green listed bookmakers.
OUTSIDER: A typical 1-0 Chelsea professional win at 7/1 with Bet365 and BetVictor.
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