Tottenham Hotspur vs Chelsea Preview

Tottenham Hotspur vs Chelsea

Competition – Barclays Premier League

Stadium: Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

Date: 8th December 2024

Kick-off time – 16:30 GMT

Tottenham will look for some reprieve when they host Chelsea in the 14th round of the 2024/25 Premier League season.

The hosts have endured a rollercoaster season so far with their most recent result proof of how inconsistent they have been this season. Over the last six games, Ange Postecoglou’s side have lost three times, in-between beating Manchester City 4-0 away from home.

A 1-0 loss to Bournemouth in their most recent outing has pushed them down to 10th in the league table. With six points now separating them from the top four, it’s now or never for Tottenham who are set to play table-topping Liverpool in the next few weeks.

Cracks have even started to emerge at their home venue, which has lost its ‘fortress’ status since they began the season with seven wins from their first eight home games across all competitions. Since then, they’ve failed to defeat Ipswich (L 2-1), Roma (D 2-2) and Fulham (D 1-1) on home soil, leaving them in a vulnerable position against one of the Premier League’s best current travellers.

Chelsea make the short trip to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in hot form after overtaking Liverpool as the most prolific goalscorers of the Premier League season (31) with a 5-1 midweek demolition of Southampton.

The Blues possess the league’s second-longest undefeated run (W4, D2), and with their last two wins coming by large margins, they’re primed to extend their recent domination of this matchup.

Chelsea have won 11 of the last 15 H2Hs across all competitions, the majority of them being accompanied by 2+ goal margins, such as the 4-1 (away) and 2-0 (home) double last Premier League season.

They bring into this edition a formidable away record of five wins from seven Premier League away trips (D1, L1). But with all five wins coming against clubs starting the weekend in the bottom half of the standings, this could prove to be a sterner test, depending on what Tottenham side show up.

Other fixtures taking place this week in the Premier League Fixtures:

April 7, 2025
Leicester City 20:00 Newcastle United
April 12, 2025
Manchester City 12:30 Crystal Palace
Brighton & Hov… 15:00 Leicester City
Nottingham Forest 15:00 Everton
Southampton 15:00 Aston Villa
Arsenal 17:30 Brentford
April 13, 2025
Chelsea 14:00 Ipswich Town
Liverpool 14:00 West Ham United
Wolverhampton Wanderers 14:00 Tottenham Hotspur
Newcastle United 16:30 Manchester United
April 14, 2025
AFC Bournemouth 20:00 Fulham
April 16, 2025
Newcastle United 19:30 Crystal Palace
April 19, 2025
Brentford 15:00 Brighton & Hov…
Crystal Palace 15:00 AFC Bournemouth
Everton 15:00 Manchester City
West Ham United 15:00 Southampton
Aston Villa 17:30 Newcastle United

Premier League Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Liverpool 31 22 7 2 72 30 +42 73
2 Arsenal 31 17 11 3 56 26 +30 62
3 Nottingham Forest 31 17 6 8 51 37 +14 57
4 Chelsea 31 15 8 8 54 37 +17 53
5 Manchester City 31 15 7 9 57 40 +17 52
6 Aston Villa 31 14 9 8 46 46 +0 51
7 Newcastle United 29 15 5 9 49 39 +10 50
8 Fulham 31 13 9 9 47 42 +5 48
9 Brighton & Hov… 31 12 11 8 49 47 +2 47
10 AFC Bournemouth 31 12 9 10 51 40 +11 45
11 Crystal Palace 30 11 10 9 39 35 +4 43
12 Brentford 31 12 6 13 51 47 +4 42
13 Manchester United 31 10 8 13 37 41 -4 38
14 Tottenham Hotspur 31 11 4 16 58 45 +13 37
15 Everton 31 7 14 10 33 38 -5 35
16 West Ham United 31 9 8 14 35 52 -17 35
17 Wolverhampton Wanderers 31 9 5 17 43 59 -16 32
18 Ipswich Town 31 4 8 19 31 65 -34 20
19 Leicester City 30 4 5 21 25 67 -42 17
20 Southampton 31 2 4 25 23 74 -51 10

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