Chelsea Must Take Advantage Of Brighton's Conclusion At Stamford Bridge

JAKARTA Chelsea will host Brighton and Hove Albion in the 14th week of the 2023/2024 Premier League at Stamford Bridge, Sunday, December 3, 2023, WIB night.

Si Biru hasn't performed well this season. They are still struggling on the middle board, to be precise in 11th place with 16 points

Brighton is even better. They are on the eighth ladder with a collection of 22 points.

Chelsea have only packed five points from the last five Premier League games with details of one win, two draws, and two defeats. One of the defeats came the previous week when they were massacred by Newcastle United 1-4.

Mauricio Pochettino certainly wanted to make up for the defeat when he met Brighton. Chelsea on paper is seeded.

They collected 13 wins, five draws, and three defeats in 21 meetings with Brighton.

Not to mention another bad record for the visitors in which Brighton could not score in eight of their 10 visits to Stamford Bridge in all competitions.

This match became Pochettino's event to get confidence again. He had to stop the bad record.

Previously, it was known that the Argentine coach even made poor statistics in the two Premier League games this season. They conceded four goals in a row, a bad trend for the first time since the last time they experienced it in December 1989.

In detail, Chelsea drew 4-4 against Manchester City before being hit 1-4 by Newcastle.

The match against Brighton at home does have a Chelsea turning point mission. However, Pochettino must properly mix the available players.

You see, Chelsea has certainly not been able to play seven of its pillar players. Ben Chilwell, Malo Gusto, Trevoh Chalobah, Wesley Fofana, and Carney Chukwuemeka are still injured. Reece James and Marc Cucurella must serve an accumulated card sentence.

Meanwhile, Christopher Nkunku and Romeo Lavia must see the final conditions before the match. If they are fit then they are ready to play Brighton.

"We need to assess tomorrow and then decide. Everything is close and tomorrow we will make a decision," Pochettino said at The Standard.

"Lavia may be more difficult, but we need to judge Christopher Nkunku tomorrow."

Even so, Blue doesn't need to worry. Brighton is also in a limp state. They also lost seven key players.

So, you should note on paper plus the current condition of the opponent can be used to get three points and start crawling up. At least, the perfect additional points can shift Brentford in 10th place.