Chelsea vs. Bournemouth 26/12/2016 Predictions, Match Preview

The Match Is Over. Score: 3-0

Chelsea vs. Bournemouth Match Preview:
After a week of the Christmas holidays here resumes the action of the English Premier League. For a long-standing tradition the last week of an ending year and the very first ten-day period are considered the most replete span of football at the Foggy Albion. Since as long as these two and a half weeks pass, the football country-founder will let us watch three entire rounds of the EPL (18th, 19th, and 20th), round of 64 in the English Cup, and even two first semifinal legs of the EFL Cup.

Match status: ENGLAND: Premier League - Round 18
Kick-off: Monday 26 Dec 2016, 04:00pm GMT
Venue: "Stamford Bridge" in London, Great Britain

Chelsea: Team News
Due to such a filled calendar with matchdays from December 26th to January 11th, sixteen Premier league clubs are going to participate four encounters each, still four of the semi-finalists - 5 matches for each though. These are Liverpool, Manchester United, Southampton, and Hull City.

In this situation, the current leader of the title race Chelsea turned out fortunate and hence Antonio Conte's team will be bestowed upon getting some breathing space within the interval of 8th to 14th January.

In the meantime, Chelsea are preparing to bring on their unique winning super-streak. Just to mention, "The Pensioners" beginning since the 1st of October have secured 11th victories so far, including the beating-ups to Manchester United followed by huge 4:0, and to their city fellows Man City with 3:1 recording on the score sheet.

Bournemouth: Team News
This time the "Stamford Bridge" is visited by guests from Bournemouth. The men of manager Eddie Howe are carrying through their second ever season under the top football association of England, and in accordance to the results of 17 completed rounds they secure themselves the 10th average position in the PL standings.

In general, most of its units "The Cherries" gain playing at their own "Dean Court" arena. On the other hand, beyond the own walls a mid-standing team feels like having severe suffering of earning a single point, indeed. There Eddie Howe's crew failed to grab points in the last four outings against Burnley - 2:3, losing to distinguished Arsenal by 3:1, and to Middlesbrough to nil - 0:2, who look not so powerful to be beaten by.

Predicted starting lineups of the teams:
Chelsea: Thibaut Courtois - Gary Cahill, David Luiz, Cesar Azpilicueta - Cesc Fabregas, Marcos Alonso, Nemanja Matic, Victor Moses - Eden Hazard, Michy Batshuayi, Willian (3-4-3 formation)

Bournemouth: Artur Boruc - Adam Smith, Steve Cook, Simon Francis, Charlie Daniels - Harry Arter, Jack Wilshere - Jordon Ibe, Joshua King, Marc Pugh - Benik Afobe (4-2-3-1 formation)

Missing players of Chelsea and Bournemouth:
Chelsea: John Terry, N'Golo Kante, Diego Costa, Marco van Ginkel, Oscar, Eden Hazard & John Obi Mikel are questionable.

Bournemouth: Lewis Cook, Andrew Surman, Nathan Ake, Junior Stanislas.

Chelsea vs. Bournemouth: Match Preview
"Who will stop Chelsea"? - Now it is the overriding subject in the pages of all the British media. The most supposed actual contender which is to cover this role is Tottenham Hotspur, who will be hosting The Blues on 4th January at "White Hart Lane". So, in the meanwhile, neither Bournemouth, nor Stoke City afterwards cannot claim consideration of threatening pretenders on defeating Chelsea. Consequently, we are backing Chelsea vs. Bournemouth predictions such as: