Chelsea – Nottingham, FA Cup Prediction

Chelsea are having trouble right now, but it’s important to realize that Lampard really needs time. This man is extremely smart and remotely aware that he knows what he’s doing. At the moment, we should not commit ourselves to criticizing Chelsea for their results, and even if they do not enter the top 4, this will not be a great tragedy. Lampard educates and trains this young team to play with different models, as City and Liverpool have done in recent seasons, but it’s a long and slow process. Currently, the main difficulties for Chelsea are related to teams that are able to play the ball well.

Nottingham have not had such an opportunity to enter the Premier League for years. They are currently 4th in the Championship, so this season we do not expect them to focus on the cups. They only have a team, who can play at 100% every Championship game. They broke a series of 5 straight games without a win when they managed to prevail against Hull and then recorded another 2 successes over Wigan and Blackburn.

 Expert view : Since we don’t consider FA Cup to be a big priority for Nottingham, and Chelsea are a much better team than 2nd, adding to the fact that the match is at Stamford Bridge, we expect dominance from the Blues and more goals from them. Most likely the scenario will be that they will be one of the elite teams that will easily handle their lower division opponent, as is the case with many of the games in the 3rd round of FA Cup always. Prediction – Chelsea to score in both halves at 1.60.