Chelsea-Burnley is a match on the 30th day of the Premier League and is played Saturday at 4 p.m.: live TV, streaming, likely lineups, predictions.
Despite failing to keep their goal unbeaten for over two months, Chelsea have only conceded two defeats since February, the first against Wolves in the league and the second in the bitter League Cup final against Liverpool.
That remains the last knockout for the Londoners, who after the disappointment at Wembley – Dutchman van Dijk scored the decisive goal just before penalty kicks – have strung together four positive results between the FA Cup and the league (a draw with Brentford and victories with Leeds, Newcastle and Leicester). The 3-2 success over the Foxes, a team playing in the cadet league this year, was worth a pass to the semifinals of the nation’s most prestigious cup, a more concrete goal than ever for a team that for the second season in a row is in danger of failing to qualify for any European competition. Mauricio Pochettino’s men must yes make up two matches but at the moment they are even stationed on the right side of the standings, they are 11th and with five points to make up on seventh.
Burnley believes in it
To get back in the race for Europe, however, matches like the one with Burnley, back to believing in salvation after their 2-1 success over Brentford before the break.
Three points that were oxygen for Vincent Kompany’s Clarets, confirmed by the club despite the very long fast of wins (Burnley had not won since December) and the penultimate place in the standings. Thanks to the penalty imposed on Nottingham Forest, Burnley now has only five points less than the fourth-last and is no longer doomed as it was a few weeks ago. Kompany at Stamford Bridge will be without Redmond and Ramsey, but also absent will be striker Fofana, on loan just from Chelsea (in England by regulation you cannot face the team that owns the card). As for the Blues, they should recover without problems Malo Gusto and Palmer, who had some problems with their respective national teams.
The Prediction
Chelsea has lost only once in the last seventeen previous meetings with Burnley-a positive streak that is likely to continue. Difficult, however, for the Blues to keep their goal unbeaten.
The likely Chelsea-Burnley lineups
CHELSEA (4-2-3-1): Petrovic; Malo Gusto, Disasi, Chalobah, Chilwell; Caicedo, Enzo Fernandez; Palmer, Mudryk, Madueke; Nicolas Jackson.
BURNLEY (4-4-2): Muric; Assignon, O’Shea, Esteve, Taylor; Vitinho, Berge, Cullen, Larsen; Odobert, Foster.
POSSIBLE RESULT: 2-1
