CHELSEA V STOKE CITY FA CUP PREVIEW AND PREDICTION

Chelsea take on Stoke City in the Fourth Round of the FA Cup in the only match of the round featuring two Premier League sides. Read on for my preview and prediction along with analysis, betting odds, and TV coverage for the last match of the weekend on Sunday at 10:30/15:30.

Chelsea

Chelsea come into Sunday’s match having gone unbeaten in 30 out of their last 31 FA Cup matches, which is a very impressive record. They are also unbeaten in their last seven games in all competitions which includes their Third Round FA Cup 0-2 away win over Hull City.

They have also scored two or more goals in each of their last five matches and have kept five clean sheets in their last seven matches.

Stoke City

Stoke advanced to the fourth round after beating Leicester City 2-1 at home. Since then they have lost both of their Premier League matches, 3-5 at home to Liverpool and 1-0 away to Crystal Palace.

This season Stoke has had a rather inconsistent form which has made it difficult to predict just how well they will play and what they could do from week to week.

Prediction: Chelsea 3 – 1 Stoke City

My pick is a Chelsea win. Stoke is no longer a team that looks to sit back and defend, but instead they will often go out looking to go at teams and I would expect them to do so against Chelsea. The problem is that Chelsea is a solid defensive team that also has the quality and ability to break quickly and score goals.

Betting Odds (Ladbrokes):

Chelsea win: 1.25; Draw: 6.00; Stoke City win: 11.00

Form: Chelsea (W, W, W, W, W, W) Stoke City (L, L, D, W, L, L)

TV: US coverage features the match on FOX Sports Two starting at 10:30. In the UK viewers can watch live on ITV 1 at 3:30pm.

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Chelsea 3 United 1 - 19-jan-2014

Chelsea Football match Report 

Manchester United left Stamford Bridge empty-handed after Samuel Eto'o's hat-trick had put Chelsea three goals ahead just four minutes into the second half. Substitute Javier Hernandez pulled one back with 12 minutes remaining, but a bad day for United was complete when captain Nemanja Vidic was shown a straight red card late on following a lunge on Eden Hazard.

The Reds dominated the opening passages of play and could have been ahead whenAshley Young, playing on the left after a spell out with injury, forced goalkeeper Petr Cech into a low save. But United were unlucky in conceding the first goal, when Eto'o eluded Phil Jones to cut in from the right and shot goalwards, the ball hitting Michael Carrick's foot to loop up and over the stranded David De Gea.

David Moyes' men took their time to get back into the game but did carve out more chances before the hammer blow of Eto'o's second. Adnan Januzaj was the main threat, but Danny Welbeck's shot straight at Cech from six yards, having been found by Januzaj, proved telling when the Blues doubled the lead just before half-time.

Ramires collected a cleared corner to feed Gary Cahill on the right, and the defender's cut back was clinically despatched by the Cameroon striker. The break provided little respite for the Reds, who fell three behind when De Gea blocked a Cahill header only for the lurking Eto'o to poke the ball home from point-blank range.

Hernandez provided much-needed spark from the bench, reducing the arrears when diverting Jones' low effort past Cech. But there were no late heroics, only Vidic given his marching orders from referee Phil Dowd in stoppage time, compounding the day's disappointment with an instant three-game ban.

Source : http://www.manutd.com/en/Fixtures-And-Results/Match-Reports/2014/Jan/Chelsea-v-Manchester-United-Premier-League-match-report.aspx

Mikel help Chelsea waka for FA Cup

Chelsea don waka jejely enta FA Cup nes round as de London team beat Derby County 2-0 for dia FA Cup third round match as Nottingham Forest don pack enuff gbege on top manaja Sam Allardyce as dem carri hin West Ham team do yeye waya dem 5-0.

Naija pikin John Mikel Obi, wey bin dey play hin numba 300 match for Chelsea and na him sef be kaptin for de match fes score for de blues for de secon haf for 66 minut.

Brazil midfielder Oscar come setul de matter for de 71 minute afta hin kollect beta pass from Hazard bifor hin shoot am pass kipa Derby kipa Lee Grant enta net.

Torres sef for kuku add anoda one but afta him beat kipa, ball come jam for hin leg and Ramires sef bin hit post later later.

West Ham don become de secon Premier League team to pak dia load waka as team wey dey below dem push dem comot from de competition.

Nottingham Forest kipa Jamie Paterson hama beta hattrick for de match inside 14 minutes sef, plus Djamel Abdoun pena and Andy Reid gol take complit de market for Forest dem.

West Ham manaja Sam Allardyce bin change nine players for his starting team plus hin put three smallies make dem kuku play dia fes match.

"Me no get choice for de matter oh! Wetin I fit do again.

"I bin do am like dat make I take rest some playas becos we get playa problem."

Sunderland beat Carlisle United 3-1 for Stadium of Light to waka enta round four.

Adam Johnson na im open market for dem for de 34 minute wit beta freekik plus hin come arrange beta cross wey Sean O'Hanlon take push enta hin own net afta Matty Robson bin ekwalise for Carlisle.

France midfielder El-Hadji Ba come complit all de market score de numba three gol to jolly manaja Gus Poyet belle.

Na Sunday FA Cup results be dis:

Nottingham Forest 5 West Ham United 0

Sunderland 3 Carlisle United 0

Derby Country 0 Chelsea 2

Liverpool 2 Oldham Athletic 0

Port Vale 2 Plymouth Argyle 2

Source : http://www.supersport.com/football/nigeria-naija/news/140106/Chelsea_waka_FA_Cup_enta_ness_round