Live on Sky Sports 2: Weds 19.45: Chelsea are 4/9 (BetVictor) to beat Schalke in the Champions League and Samuel Eto’o can net.
Chelsea were pretty disappointing at Newcastle on Saturday but they tend to perform better on their own patch, the reverse against Basel notwithstanding and having hammered Schalke 3-0 when the pair met over in Germany a fortnight ago, Jose Mourinho’s men should be too strong for the Bundesliga outfit at Stamford Bridge.
Bookies emphatically agree so the Blues are just 4/9 with BetVictor to move a step closer to qualifying for the knockout stages by picking up maximum points.
Winner.com rate Chelsea at 11/8 to prevail ‘to nil’ for the third Champions League game in a row, it’s 7/1 at Ladbrokes for them to notch twice without reply and Coral quote 23/20 for Mourinho’s troops to be in front at the end of each half, just as they were in Gelsenkirchen.
In attack meanwhile, the Blues will have to do without the injured Fernando Torres, who bagged a brace in the reverse fixture but they have more than enough firepower to cope with the Spaniard’s absence.
Eden Hazard for example, stands out at 7/2 (bet365) to grab a goal at some point and Torres’s likely replacement Samuel Eto’o is 5/1 at bet365 to break the deadlock.
Recommended Bets:
Samuel Eto’o to score first – 5/1 (bet365)
Chelsea to win ‘to nil’ – 11/8 (Winner.com)
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