Chelsea and Costa may have turned the corner – expect them to beat Arsenal

Chelsea host Arsenal Saturday’s early kick-off and will be looking to atone for the recent home defeat against Crystal Palace.

Jose Mourinho has never lost back-to-back home league games as Blues boss and that, combined with Chelsea’s excellent record against the Gunners, makes them excellent value at 7/5 to win this weekend’s derby. Arsenal are 21/10 and the draw 5/2 with BetVictor.

Saturday’s 3-1 defeat at Everton leaves Chelsea 11 points behind leaders Manchester City at the top of the table and they were duly eased to 12/1 (from 10s) with BetVictor to successfully retain the Premier League title. [phone][/phone]

Mourinho’s side have gained just four points from the opening five games of the campaign in what is now the club’s worst start to a league season in almost 30 years.

They responded in the perfect fashion in midweek, brushing aside Maccabi Tel Aviv 4-0 in their European opener. We have cut Chelsea to 8/1 (from 9s) to win a second Champions League crown and 1/5 (from 2/7) to finish top of the pile in Group G.

Diego Costa looked like his old self again – and looks the most likely player to fire the hosts to victory against the Gunners.

We make him the 19/4 to score the opening goal at the Bridge, 11/8 to net anytime and 12/5 to do so in a home win.

Arsenal have scored just two goals in their last seven league games against the Blues, drawing a blank in the last four, and Costa is 35/1 to net the solitary goal in a 1-0 home victory and 50/1 to score first in a 2-0 Chelsea success.

Eden Hazard has scored the opener in the previous two league fixtures between the clubs at the Bridge and is 13/2 to do so again and 60/1 to score in a 2-0 home win.

For all the latest football odds, check out Betvictor.com.

Be lucky.

Charlie

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