Soccer betting tips and predictions

Man City v Chelsea on Saturday afternoon should be a more important game than last week’s Man Utd v Liverpool in many respects. We not only see how far Man City and their expensive squad has come but we also see if Chelsea have been flattered by their impressive start to the season where they have been demolishing lesser teams.

Despite Roberto Mancini’s men having home advantage, it is Chelsea who are favourites to win the game. Chelsea are a good bet to win this match. Man city still look to be adapting to their new team and system and they are likely to be too negative tactically to trouble Chelsea too much. With Chelsea in such free scoring form they should be able to break down Man City at least once.

With both teams set to employ three fairly defensive minded central midfielders and just one out and out striker there could be very few goals in the match, at only a shade odds on perhaps the best bet of the match is under 2.5 goals. In all probability we are looking at a 1-0 win for Chelsea, although there is still a slight chance it will end up 2-0 depending on how early Chelsea score.

Chelsea’s start to the season means they are now just 4/5 with most bookies to win the league after the impressive star they have made, Man City are out to 18/1 to win the Premiership having perhaps not made as good a start as the bookies thought they would make (they were around half those odds pre season to win the title).

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Chelsea – Inter 16 March 2010

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With Internazionale Milan leading in overall with 2-1, this should make a very exciting and disputed match on Stamford Bridge with Chelsea having the advantage of the home crowd and away goal.

Chelsea will most certainly push for the offensive from the start but the English team will have to worry in defense as a goal received from Inter will make life very difficult. The team’s form has seem a big improvement since their trip to Italy as they won in the FA Cup against Stoke and last week crushed West Ham in the Premier League 4-1 to stay joust 2 points behind leaders Manchester United in the table.

Their home matches have been their strong point this season, losing only once in the domestic league and no matches without points in this season of the Champions League.

Inter is on a downward spiral both in match performance and results, their loss last week against Catania 3-1 left them with joust one point advantage over rivals AC Milan in the Serie A, far from their comfortable lead in the start of the year.

Their match against Chelsea on home ground was a good one and especially Jose Muorinho has a point to make against the English side. Their mission is very hard and with a goal received on home ground, qualification in the next round is especially difficult.

My tip:  Chelsea to win (and qualify)

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*matches in all competitions

Inter last 5 matches:  

Inter last 3 home matches: 

Chelsea last 5 matches:

Chelsea last 3 away matches:

With both Inter and Chelsea leading in their domestic leagues, this looks like the match of the evening in the Champions League with the traditional Italian-English rivalry placing it’s mark.

Internazionale Milan has lost ground lately, with important points waisted against lower ranked teams and now only 5 points separate them from followers AS Roma in the Serie A.

Their last match saw 2 of their players sent off in a very tense matches, but the team managed to resist and claim a point i their goalless draw against Sampdoria. They are a team that is dominating adversaries on home ground from start to finish but Chelsea is a though nut to crack. It all depends on how well the players can be motivated in this crucial phase of the competition.

Chelsea is in a similar position in the English Premier League, with a 4 point advantage over Manchester United and feeling the pressure from their rivals. In the last 5 played they ended one in a draw against Hull City and lost against Everton, both matches away.

Only one victory for them in the last 3 matches played whilst traveling and important injuries like Deco, A. Cole, M. Essien and J. Bosingwa, all valuable players especially with such a busy schedule.

My tip:  Draw

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