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Chelsea vs Wolverhampton Wanderers

Competition – Barclays Premier League

Stadium: Stamford Bridge

Date: 20th January 2025

Kick-off time – 20:00 GMT

Chelsea will look to record their first league win since mid-December when they welcome Wolves to Stamford Bridge on Monday.

Despite head coach Enzo Marseca’s constant public denial, many people considered the Blues to be part of the Premier League title race before Christmas. However, a return of zero wins in their last five games (D3, L2) means they have lost major ground in the title race. So much so that despite being Liverpool’s nearest challenger not too long ago, they now no longer reside in the top four.

Three defeats from their last four Premier League games against Wolves would hint at a continuation of that misery. However, it’s worth noting that Chelsea won August’s reverse fixture 6-2.

This game falling on a Monday could also help their quest to get back to winning ways, with Maresca’s men winning five of their last six Monday-held Premier League home games (D1), with four of those wins coming ‘to nil’.

Meanwhile, Wolves will be desperate to return to league form when they travel to London on Monday night. The visitors enjoyed a strong start to life under Vítor Pereira who won his first two games in charge.

But the Portuguese’s impact at the club has waned somewhat as he has failed to win any of his next three league games. Two heavy 3-0 league defeats precede this clash, meaning that Wolves are by no means out of the woods yet in their survival quest, with only goals scored keeping them out of the bottom three ahead of the round.

Even more telling is that those two hefty defeats to open their 2025 league campaign leave Wolves on the brink of some unwanted history as the last side to lose their opening three top-flight games of a calendar year by 3+ goals was Nottingham Forest back in 1910. Considering they haven’t kept a clean sheet in a Premier League clash in the capital since February 2022, it looks like their attack might have to be at its best to get something out of this game.

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

February 19, 2025
Aston Villa 20:30 Liverpool
February 21, 2025
Leicester City 21:00 Brentford
February 22, 2025
Everton 13:30 Manchester United
AFC Bournemouth 16:00 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Arsenal 16:00 West Ham United
Fulham 16:00 Crystal Palace
Ipswich Town 16:00 Tottenham Hotspur
Southampton 16:00 Brighton & Hov…
Aston Villa 18:30 Chelsea
February 23, 2025
Newcastle United 15:00 Nottingham Forest
Manchester City 17:30 Liverpool
February 25, 2025
Brighton & Hov… 20:30 AFC Bournemouth
Crystal Palace 20:30 Aston Villa
Wolverhampton Wanderers 20:30 Fulham
Chelsea 21:15 Southampton
February 26, 2025
Manchester United 20:30 Ipswich Town
Tottenham Hotspur 20:30 Manchester City
Nottingham Forest 20:30 Arsenal
Brentford 20:30 Everton
Liverpool 21:15 Newcastle United

Premier League Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Liverpool 25 18 6 1 60 24 +36 60
2 Arsenal 25 15 8 2 51 22 +29 53
3 Nottingham Forest 25 14 5 6 41 29 +12 47
4 Manchester City 25 13 5 7 52 35 +17 44
5 AFC Bournemouth 25 12 7 6 44 29 +15 43
6 Chelsea 25 12 7 6 47 34 +13 43
7 Newcastle United 25 12 5 8 42 33 +9 41
8 Fulham 25 10 9 6 38 33 +5 39
9 Aston Villa 25 10 8 7 35 38 -3 38
10 Brighton & Hov… 25 9 10 6 38 38 +0 37
11 Brentford 25 10 4 11 43 42 +1 34
12 Tottenham Hotspur 25 9 3 13 49 37 +12 30
13 Crystal Palace 25 7 9 9 29 32 -3 30
14 Everton 25 7 9 9 27 31 -4 30
15 Manchester United 25 8 5 12 28 35 -7 29
16 West Ham United 25 7 6 12 29 47 -18 27
17 Wolverhampton Wanderers 25 5 4 16 35 54 -19 19
18 Ipswich Town 25 3 8 14 23 50 -27 17
19 Leicester City 25 4 5 16 25 55 -30 17
20 Southampton 25 2 3 20 19 57 -38 9

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