Betting tips for Chelsea vs Southampton - 16.12.2017

The Blues receive at Stamford Bridge Southampton Mauricio Pellegrini in one of the highlights of the 18th round of the Premier League. Chelsea is third in the Premier League, but has been left out of the fight for the title to add 35 points, 14 less than Manchester City Guardiola. The Blue team comes from winning its second Premier League in three years, the first with Antonio Conte leading the team. Despite the good performance of the team last season, the Londoners kept the black tradition of the last two seasons, in which the champion starts the next season making a fool of himself.

The Blues did not have enough to lose the Community Shield precisely to the Gunners, but they fell at home to Burnley (2-3). However, the following day won at Wembley at Tottenham (1-2), with two goals from Spaniard Marcos Alonso, initiating an improvement confirmed with wins against Everton (2-0) and Leicester (1-2), at the league competition, and the Qarabag (6-0) in the debut in the Champions League. Victory in the Wanda Metropolitan (1-2) opened a streak of three punctures (0-1 against City, 2-1 in their visit to Crystal Palace, 3-3 against AS Roma), broken the following weekend with a huge comeback against Watford (4-2). Since then, the team won the next three games without conceding a single goal (0-1 at Bournemouth, 1-0 at home against Manchester United, and 0-4 against West Bromwich), before tying at Anfield (1- 1), suffering to win at Swansea (1-0, beating Newcastle (3-1), losing to West Ham (1-0) last weekend and winning in their visit to Huddersfield Town on weekdays (1-) 3).



premier-leagueThe Southampton occupies the 11th position in the table, with 18 points (4 wins, 6 draws and 7 losses), showing problems to defend that were not common in the last two seasons, and suffering to score (17 goals for 23 embedded).

Mauricio Pellegrino came to the team after a great season at Deportivo Alavés and the Argentine coach is getting his team back to being as solid in defense as it was in the last season of Ronald Koeman. After the stage of Claude Puel last season, the team seems to be more comfortable with a defensive mentality, surrounding the huge Fraser Forster with a defense formed by the quoted Virgil Van Dijk, the Portuguese international Cedric Soares or the left-handed side of the English team , Ryan Bertrand.

The Saints thrashed Everton 5 days ago (4-1). Since then, they fell at Etihad Stadium (2-1), drew in their visit to Bournemouth (1-1) and at home against Arsenal (1-1) and were beaten at St.Mary's by Leicester City (1-) 4).

Chelsea vs Southampton  Prediction: 1/1 1.50

Chelsea vs Southampton betting tip: Over 4.5 Goals @ 1.80

Chelsea vs Southampton final score recommendations: 4-1 10.00