Tottenham Hotspur vs Chelsea

Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is the venue as Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea go head-to-head in an all-London Premier League match-up.

Tottenham Hotspur returned to winning ways after back-to-back losses to AC Milan and Leicester City in the Champions League and Premier League, respectively, with a 2-0 home win over fellow London rivals West Ham United last time out. Antonio Conte’s men have fared well in the Premier League lately, racking up three wins in four league matches in the lead-up to this fixture (L1) to leapfrog Newcastle United to fourth in the standings. Indeed, after a brace of 2-0 defeats to Aston Villa and Arsenal, they’ve won their last two home league games without conceding, highlighting the potential to defy their embarrassing H2H record against Chelsea in the Premier League era (W7, D21, L33) and avoid losing a fourth straight top-flight H2H at home.

In the meantime, Chelsea could go winless in both seasonal Premier League meetings with Tottenham for the first time since 2015/16 following an enthralling 2-2 draw in the reverse fixture. Another share of the spoils or worse would likely render their top-four ambitions dead in the water, with Graham Potter’s underachievers starting this round 11 points adrift of Spurs, albeit with a game in hand. Since toppling cross-town rivals Crystal Palace 1-0 in mid-January, the ‘Pensioners’ have gone winless in four consecutive league matches (D3, L1), including a disheartening 1-0 home defeat to rock-bottom Southampton last weekend. Moreover, they’ve not won any of their seven away league games since beating Aston Villa 2-0 in mid-October (D3, L4), netting under 1.5 goals on each occasion.