English Premier League - Preview: http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chelsea-c38786 versus Bolton
Chelsea, the current Premier League title holders have not looked anything like their previous season selves as of late. The Blues have rapidly been losing ground in the race for the title this season, having recently lost to Arsenal on Monday. The Gunners'
victory over Carlo Ancelotti’s team have left the Blues with just six points in eight matches, and Chelsea have now been without a win in six Premier League games.
With the manager and players regularly blasting statements, encouraging each other to ‘wake up’ and show their former in-form selves, the Blues need to start doing their talking on the pitch and get results which they had achieved in the beginning of this
Premier League campaign. In a sharp contrast, Bolton Wanderers’ squad has performed particularly well this season, and the Trotters now occupy the sixth position in the Premier League table, a single spot behind fifth placed Chelsea. If the Trotters manage
to walk away from Stamford Bridge having grabbed all three points, then the league champions will fall into the sixth place and Bolton will climb into the fifth.
Owen Coyle’s Bolton have played nineteen fixtures this season as compared to Chelsea’s eighteen so far. The Blues have managed to grab thirty one points from their matches, only two more than the Trotters. Coyle’s men have won seven games, with Ancelotti’s
team achieving two more victories in comparison. Bolton have drawn eight games so far this season, twice the number the Blues have. Chelsea have lost one more fixture than Bolton’s four in this campaign. Both teams have scored exactly thirty two goals so far
in their Premier League matches and Chelsea have conceded fifteen goals, ten less than what Trotters have let in.
Bolton will be approaching this fixture with confidence, as the Blues have been a pale shadow of their former selves. Carlo Ancelotti will take refuge in the fact that Chelsea have not lost to Bolton in their previous thirteen Premier League matches. The
Blues have achieved victory the last four times when playing against the Trotters, previously drawing three and winning six fixtures. The last time Bolton scored three points at the Bridge was in December 2003, when the match had ended 1-2. That match was
the only ever fixture Bolton have won against the Blues on Stamford turf, and regrettably it was the skipper http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/John-Terry-c18895, who scored an own goal in the 90th minute to gift the Trotters their victory. Coyle’s team will be looking to take advantage
of Ancelotti’s men’s pitiful form, as the Blues are now in their worst possible form since December 1999. In that season, Chelsea had gained only five points after playing eight fixtures. In the whole of the previous season, the London team had dropped five
points when playing at home. This year, Chelsea have already dropped the same number of points.
Blues' player Nicolas Anelka had previously played for Bolton, having hit the back of the net 21 times in 53 fixtures for the Trotters from 2006 to 2008. The Trotters will have to be on their guard against their former striker, as the Frenchman has scored
four times in six games against his former team. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Didier-Drogba-c11044 has four in the last four clashes between the two teams. From their previous twenty six games, Bolton have achieved three victories, seven draws and
sixteen defeats when playing in London. The only team in the capital against which they have scored all three points has been West Ham United.
Carlo Ancelotti may not have http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Yossi-Benayoun-c37520. The Bolton team will be without Tamir
Cohen, due to the death of his father. Gretar Steinsson and Chung Yong http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Lee-c21860 will also miss the clash at Stamford Bridge.
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