Chelsea Defence To Be Put Under Pressure By Genk

Chelsea will be glad this game has come around quickly after the 5-3 loss against Arsenal on Saturday, it gives Andre Villas-Boas' men a quick opportunity to return to winning ways and after a 5-0 win at home to Genk Chelsea fans will be extremely confident that Chelsea can secure yet another easy victory to cement their place as league leaders, they could even be guaranteed qualification from the group after this match if Leverkusen can beat Valencia in the other match in Group E.

 

Chelsea are likely to make several changes for this match with Andre Villas-Boas likely to rest key players. Didier Drogba, who is currently suspended domestically, is injured for this match having had six screws removed from his elbow. Jon Obi Mikel is also unavailable, the midfielder hasn't travelled with the squad for this match. Frank Lampard and John Terry, both of whom scored at the weekend, look likely to be amongst those rested whilst Florent Malouda, Nicolas Anelka and Oriol Romeu should all start for Chelsea. Genk midfielder Kevin De Bruyne  was linked with Chelsea in the summer and was apparently close to moving to England, he will have an opportunity to impress his possible future employers here.

 

With key players being rested and Genk expected to be much stronger at home we are unlikely to see a repeat of the 5-0 scoreline we saw in London a fortnight ago, Chelsea are a fair price to win this match but are not either a generous price or a big price so the best bet here could be both teams to score. Chelsea have struggled for clean sheets all season and looked all at sea defensively at the weekend whilst Genk won 5-4 at the weekend suggesting this could be high scoring, at the very least both teams can register at least one goal each in this match.