Weds 19.45: Chelsea are 4/9 with Coral to beat Middlesbrough in the FA Cup and they can win fairly comfortably.
A long trip to Teesside on a cold Wednesday night to face opposition from the top half of the Championship, does sound like the kind of scenario that has the potential to throw up an FA Cup upset but Chelsea look set to swerve that banana skin as they head to the Riverside to face Middlesbrough.
Admittedly the Blues, Coral’s 4/9 favourites, are winless in five on the road in domestic competition and a stalemate at Brentford is included in that run but Boro’s promotion bid has gone south of late, Tony Mowbray’s men having lost seven of their last eleven in all competitions and it’s hard to see them finding the kind of form it will take to conquer Chelsea.
Indeed, this is a competition the Blues will be keen on winning and having hammered Brentford 4-0 in a fourth round replay Rafa Benitez’s side can also brush Boro aside, albeit by not quite as great a margin.
Boylesports rate the visitors at 6/5 in the handicaps, where they start a goal behind and it’s a whopping 8/1 with BetVictor for Chelsea to notch twice without reply.
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