Betting tips for Arsenal VS Chelsea 19.01.2019

Nothing better than closing the Premier League games on Saturday than with a London derby, with Arsenal and Chelsea playing out late in the afternoon at Emirates Stadium in a challenge to count for the 23rd round of the championship. The Gunners saw the distance that was already comfortable over Manchester United being completely reduced and they risk falling out of the top-5. On the other side comes a Chelsea far from the good moment that demonstrated in the first three months of the championship, and also are not free to be reached by the Red Devils.

Arsenal came in 5th place with 41 points, with 12 wins, 5 draws and 5 losses, with 46 goals scored and 32 goals conceded. By the time this game starts, Arsenal may already be in 6th place, as Manchester United have the same 41 points and receives Brighton at 3:00 p.m., making it quite possible that the Manchester team will surpass the set of Unai Emery in the table, at least until the end of this game. The Gunners had a huge difference of points over this now ranked 6th, but a great breach of consistency left them now vulnerable. The team now has only two wins in the last six consecutive league games, starting with a 3-2 win against Southampton, then winning Burnley (3-1), drawing 1-1 at Brighton, losing to Liverpool (5-1), beat Fulham (4-1) and lost on their final day against West Ham (1-0).

The team then reached an irregular shape at a very bad time, but fortunately they are lucky enough to be able to count on the support of their fans for this London derby, since it is in the Emirates that the team shows better performances and better results. There have been 11 Premier League matches in this group, with the Gunners winning 8 and losing only 1, scoring 24 goals and 10 goals conceded. The only home defeat came in the first round of the league at the hands of Manchester City (2-0), the only game in their domains where they went blank on the scoreboard. Now the team have won the last four consecutive home-scoring matches, scoring a total of 12 goals and conceding four in a row. Things seem to be improving for Emery with regard to the medical bulletin, seeing him getting fewer and fewer names, and confirmed casualties for this game are only Danny Welbeck, Rob Holding, Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Konstantinos Mavropanos. Lucas Torreira will certainly return to the midfield after being on the bench in the last game, and the only question remains who his partner will be, with Emery having to choose between Granit Xhaka and Matteo Guendouzi.

Chelsea are fourth with 47 points, with 14 wins, 5 draws and 3 losses, with 40 goals scored and 17 goals conceded. Chelsea have also not been in a much better shape recently, failing to demonstrate the same offensive capacity they showed in the early months of the league, not least because they can not win a game by more than one goal difference since they beat Manchester City 2-0) in early December. Recently the team has won 3 times in the last five matches, starting with a 1-0 defeat of Leicester City, beating Watford (1-2) and Crystal Palace (0-1), tied at the Southampton 0-0) and then, on the final day, won the reception at Newcastle. With the Blues only 1 point behind Tottenham, who only play on Sunday, they would have the perfect opportunity to put pressure on the Spurs with a win here.

Out of doors, the set led by Maurizio Sarri already has 10 games in the championship, won 7 lost 2, accounting for a total of 19 goals scored and 8 goals conceded. These two away away defeats came at the hands of Tottenham (3-1) and Wolverhampton (2-1), and since then the team has won the following three consecutive shifts, all by the minimum margin, beating Brighton (1-2), Watford (1-2) and Crystal Palace (0-1). The Italian coach enters here without Christensen and Loftus-Cheek, ambs injured, and Drinkwater in doubt. Álvaro Morata may no longer be a Chelsea player by the time the game starts, as he has a transfer to Atletico Madrid almost closed. In addition, Sarri should continue to use Hazard as a fake number 9, keeping Giroud on the bench.


This London derby places two teams that have been in better shape this season face to face, and have more recently struggled to score points. With Manchester United approaching, and probably already ahead of Arsenal at the time of this game, both teams will enter with everything to win.

Arsenal VS Chelsea  Prediction: X/1 4.80

Arsenal VS Chelsea   Betting Tip: Over 2.5 Goals @ 2.00

Arsenal VS Chelsea  Score Recommendations: 2-1 10.00