PREVIEW: Chelsea v Schalke

[dropcap]D[/dropcap]readful result last night in the Liverpool game.

After some good recent results I played ‘safe’ or so I thought with a Liverpool HT/FT recommendation.

More Champions League action tonight and hopefully better luck….

For the bet tonight I’m heading to Stamford Bridge:

Chelsea v Schalke
Champions League
7.45pm LIVE ON SKY SPORTS 1

HEAD TO HEAD RECORD
Nov 2013 Champions League Chelsea 3-0 Schalke
Oct 2013 Champions League Schalke 0-3 Chelsea
Nov 2007 Champions League Schalke 0-0 Chelsea
Oct 2007 Champions League Chelsea 2-0 Schalke

Where others have faltered Chelsea have made an irresistible start to the new Premier League season and have now scored 15 goals in their last four matches.

As you can see from the head to head stats the German outfit Schalke have never caused Chelsea too many problems in the past with an aggregate of 8-0 to Chelsea over their four Champions League encounters.

Mourinho will also have one eye on the impending trip to the Etihad on Sunday for a Premier League clash against Man City but will be anxious for a win here in the first of the Group G games for Chelsea.

Didier Drogba, who scored Chelsea’s decisive penalty to win the Champions League over Bayern Munich in 2012, could well be available tonight after recovering from an ankle injury which kept him out of the side for their win over Swansea last week.

He could be joined by another Chelsea veteran Petr Cech who has been overlooked in favour of Thibaut Courtois in goal so far this season.

Mourinho bids to become the first manager to win the Champions League with three different clubs after Porto in 2004 and Inter Milan in 2010.

It might be a dangerous strategy, and hopefully not a case of ‘once bitten, twice shy’ but I can’t see this being as cagey as Liverpool last night so will again have a go at the HT/FT market in favour of Chelsea.

RECOMMENDED BETS (scale of 1-50 points)

BACK CHELSEA HT/FT at around 4/5 for 10 points with Star Sports

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