Chelsea meets Wolverhampton Wanderers in an important Premier League fixture, looking to get their title bid back on track, at Molineux on Sunday evening with kickoff at 17:00.
Chelsea cannot afford another slip-up in the Premier League this weekend having dropped points in two of their last three top-flight fixtures. As a result the European champions are now four points adrift of the leaders Manchester City and three behind the second-placed Liverpool.
With the Premier yet to hit the halfway, Thomas Tuchel will not panic just yet, but the German will be aware that failure to claim three points in the Saturdays clash could harm their Premier League ambitions as it could leave them clear outsiders in the title race.
Therefore, the Blue will head into the match needing to bounce back to winning ways here against Wolves before their good start to the campaign is undone in a matter of weeks.
Wolverhampton Wanderers on the other hand have been on and off this season but the club will happy with where they are now as they currently occupy the eighth with 24 points collected from 17 league matches.
They did well to end their four-match winless run with a hard fought 1-0 success at Brighton in their last Premier League fixture on Wednesday night. As a result Wolves are now just three points adrift of European places.
Therefore, Bruno Lage’s side will look to build on their success as they aim at breaking into the top six.
Wolves vs Chelsea head to head
Both sides have met in 16 encounters since 2003 with Chelsea claiming 11 victories while Wolves have claimed three victories and there have been two draws.
- Chelsea 0-0 Wolves 27/01/21
- Wolves 2-1 Chelsea 15/12/20
- Chelsea 2-0 Wolves 26/07/20
- Wolves 2-5 Chelsea 14/09/19
- Chelsea 1-1 Wolves 10/03/19
Home
- Brighton 0-1 Wolves
- Man City 1-0 Wolves
- Wolves 0-1 Liverpool
- Wolves 0-0 Burnley
- Norwich 0-0 Wolves
Away
- Chelsea 1-1 Everton
- Chelsea 3-2 Leeds
- St Petersburg 3-3 Chelsea
- West Ham 3-2 Chelsea
- Watford 1-2 Chelsea
Wolves team news
Wolves will be without Jonny Castro, Pedro Neto, Yersob Mosquera, Rayan Ait-Nouri and Hee-chan Hwang through injuries.
Chelsea team news
Chelsea will be without Mateo Kovacic and Ben Chilwell due to injuries while Romelu Lukaku, Timo Werner, Kai Havertz abd Call Hudson-Odoi will all miss due to testing positive for Covid-19.
Prediction and odds
- Draws
- Goals under 2.5
- Wolves win
