Norwich City vs Chelsea Match Preview With Line-Up And Score Predictions

Norwich City vs Chelsea Match Preview With Line-Up And Score Predictions

Chelsea head to Norwich in hope that Hiddink will continue his unbeaten streak thus helping the Blues to secure a Europa League spot.

Chelsea have the upper hand against Norwich who have scored just two goals during their past six games against the Blues. Hiddink’s team dominates statistics when it comes to head- to-head confrontations. They’ve not lost a game against the Canaries and the way things are looking, they are not about to start now. Alex Neil’s side is going through a very, very rough time after getting just 1 point out of 18 possible. Chelsea on the other hand haven’t lost in a while and have won their last two games.

The overall atmosphere at Stamford Bridge has improved considerably and that shows. All is good now as the Blues are close to redemption under the man who took control after Mourinho lost the locker room. If Chelsea continue down the same path, who knows, they could even get to the top 4. Eleven points is not that much when you still have to play against three of the 4 teams currently at the top. With a perfect run anything is possible.

The focus needs to be on Norwich now as a good result against them and against Stoke could even increase the chances of seeing Chelsea in the next phase of the Champions League.

“When I started in December we were close to the relegation zone, one point away. Of course this club must have big objectives but it was a side objective to get away from the relegation zone as soon as possible. The team did well with draws and victories so in a relatively short time we’ve accomplished that in-between target. That encourages us to go on” Hiddink said. Hopefully Pedro and Terry’s absences will not have too big of an influence on what is to come and also hopefully Costa will not get suspended or injured as Pato is turning out to be a very strange investment. If the BBC is right, he might just make his debut for the Blues which would be something given the fact that he is still to make any impression on the crowd.

Chelsea Starting XI:
Starting Line-Up

Substitutes: Begovic, Miazga, Kenedy, Loftus-Cheek, Pato, Traore
Unavailable/Uncertain – Terry, Zouma, Pedro, Obi-Mikel, Matic, Azpilicueta

Norwich Starting XI:
Norwich Line-Up

Substitutes: Rudd, Whittaker, Wisdom, Hoolahan, Lafferty, Mbokani, Andreu
Unavailable/Uncertain – None

Score Prediction:
Norwich 0 – 3 Chelsea