Betting tips for Malmo FF VS Chelsea 14.02.2019

Malmo and Chelsea come face-to-face this Thursday at the Swedbank Stadion, a challenge for the first leg of the sixteenth-finals of the Europa League. The home team has not played any official games since mid-December and has here the first heat of the year. On the other side arrives a Chelsea that comes absolutely shattered after a humiliation at the hands of Manchester City, the biggest thrashing in the history of the London club.

Malmo arrives here after winning 2nd place in Group I, behind Genk, ahead of Besiktas and Sarpsborg 08. Malmo are a team with no history in the competition and this is only the 4th time they have played in the Europa League since the beginning of the millennium, never having been able to go beyond the group stage. The last competitive game of the Swedes was on 13 December against Besiktas, and then ended the year 2018 with an unbeaten record of 13 consecutive matches in all competitions, not missing since September.

Playing at home in the Europa League, the team started by beating Besiktas (0-1) and drew the following two games against Sparsborg (1-1) and Genk (2-2). The team arrives here without confirmed losses, and receives an opponent who comes from an authentic humiliation at the weekend. However, the fact that the Swedes did not play an official match two months ago could have negative consequences on the overall performance of the team.

 Chelsea, meanwhile, arrives here after having qualified for Group L, leading BATE Borisov, MOL Vidi and PAOK. The Blues won the event for the only time in their history in 2012/13, just after the Champions League. Given that it is a team that regularly plays in the Champions League, Chelsea will return for the first time to the Europa League from the time they won the competition. Maurizio Sarri's team is in free fall as a visitor, having lost the last four consecutive away games in all competitions, conceding a total of 13 goals and scoring none in response.

In fact, the last time Chelsea scored to play out of doors was on 30 December, where they won the Crystal Palace (0-1). Sarri sees his place as Chelsea manager trapped by a string after the humiliation suffered in the last round at home to Manchester City, where they lost 6-0, the biggest defeat in the history of the London club. After that, the Italian coach will certainly look to make some changes in the same eleven that he has humbled, and players like Hudson-Odoi, Andreas Christensen, Gary Cahill, Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Ethan Ampadu hope to have their chance here, such as Oliver Giroud . Drinkwater, injured, is confirmed low. Out of the Premier League title fight, the only way to keep his place at the helm of the team seems to be to show strong chances of winning the Europa League.


After a humiliation at the hands of Chelsea, Sarri has no choice but to win the trip to Sweden, finding his position as head coach caught by a thread.