After back to back Premier League matches in the festival periods, this week Premier League was given a break. But having the break on Premier League doesn't give time to rest for Premier League clubs, all Premier League teams along with some lower divisions clubs were on the action in their respective FA Cup 3rd round matches. All teams got the chance to rotate their squads after restless festive matches. Leicester and Fulham had a shocking defeat in their respective matches in the 3rd round of FA Cup against a lower division team. After the tonight’s match between Wolverhampton and Liverpool, the final 32 for the 4th round of FA Cup will be complete. While other teams are enjoying the mid-week break, three Premier League clubs Tottenham, Chelsea and Manchester City will be busy in their mid-week semi-final match of Carabao Cup. Tottenham is facing Chelsea in the semi-final while Manchester City will play against Burton Albion in another semi-final. In a first-leg of Semi-final, Tottenham will host Chelsea at Wembley Arena and Manchester City will welcome league one club Burton Albion at Etihad Stadium.

This two London team Tottenham and Chelsea have already faced each other this season in the Premier League in a game week 13. Just After Sarri sets the record of longest unbeaten manager as a debutant manager in the Premier League, he tastes his first Premier League defeat against Tottenham at Wembley Stadium. In a match when all 4 front players Son, Kane, Alli and Eriksson were started, Tottenham won the match by 3-1 with a goal from Alli, Kane and a beautiful Solo goal from Son which also won the November’s Premier League goal of the month. Oliver Giroud scored the consolation goal from the header in that match.

This season Chelsea has travelled Wembley Arena twice and lost on both occasions. First, they lost against Manchester City in a Community Shield and secondly, they lost against Tottenham at Premier League round of 13. Currently, Tottenham is in third place of Premier League with 48 points and Chelsea is in fourth place with 44 points.

Match Details

• Venue: Wembley Arena
• Date: Tuesday, January 8
• Kick-off: 8:00 pm GMT

Current Form:

Tottenham Hotspur

Last week, Tottenham played two away matches in two different cups. First, they played against Cardiff City in the New Year’s Premier League match on last Tuesday and played against second division club Tranmere Rovers in the FA Cup on last Friday. In a match against Cardiff, they won the game with the goal apiece from Harry Kane, Christian Eriksen and Son Heung-min. Despite making 9 changes that won over Cardiff City just 3days before, they won their weekend game against second division club Tranmere Rovers by a 7-0. Tottenham’s striker Fernando Llorente scored hat-trick followed by right-back Serge Aurier's two goals and 1-1 goal from in-form Heung-min Son and Harry Kane. In a quarter-final of Carabao Cup, they beat their north London rival Arsenal at Emirates stadium by 2-0. Tottenham’s Dele Alli and Heung-min Son scored 1-1 goal for the Tottenham in that match.

Chelsea F.C.

Just as Tottenham, Chelsea also played two matches last week in two different cups. Chelsea played their both match at home. First, they played a disappointing goalless draw against Southampton in a Premier League and in the FA Cup, they won over 2 time European Champion Nottingham Forest by 2-0. Chelsea striker Alvaro Morata scored a brace for Chelsea against Championship club. Chelsea entered into the semi-final of Carabao Cup after beating Bournemouth at Stamford Bridge with the only goal of Eden Hazzard in the 89th minute of the match.

This Season

Tottenham Hotspur

Tottenham this season has been playing really well in both domestic leagues and Champions League. After the end of Gameweek 21, they are currently in the third position with 48 points. They are the only team who still hasn’t played single draw in the 21 league matches. Despite having 1 point from their 3 opening group games of Champions league, they qualified to the round of 16 of Champions League. They will meet current Bundesliga leader Borussia Dortmund. In their recent home match, they lost against Wolverhampton by 3-1 in Premier League game week 20. This is the golden opportunity for Mauricio Pochettino to at least win something as a Tottenham manager to end Tottenham's trophy drought.

Chelsea F.C.

Despite having a great opening 12 matches in the league, Chelsea lost their momentum after facing Tottenham in the league and is playing very unpredictive football. Chelsea is currently in the 4th position with the 44 points. After finishing 5th in last season's Premier League, Chelsea was forced to play in the Europa League. This season, they already entered into the round of 32 of the Europa League. Under a new boss Maurizio Sarri, Chelsea is playing a very mixed football. Their Strikers Giroud and Morata hasn’t succeeded to impress the new boss Sarri. This season, Sarri started Eden Hazard as Chelsea’s striker in many games for Chelsea. After having a busy schedule in the festive period, Chelsea is currently having a big injury crisis in their squad.

My Prediction

Tottenham is playing very attacking football at the moment. They have scored 21 goals in their last 5 games. But they will surely gonna miss their South Korean striker Heung-min Son in this match who will go to Dubai to join his national team to play in the Asia Cup. Heung-min Son is directly involved in 17 goals in the last 10 game for Tottenham. He is this season’s second highest scorer of Tottenham behind Harry Kane. Chelsea has kept back to back clean sheets in their last 3 games but scored only 3 goals in those game winning 2 of them. Chelsea scored only 9 goals in their last 7 games winning 5 games. Looking at the current form of both players and teams in the different competition, I have to say Tottenham is the better side to win this match. But out of 5 losses in the Premier League, Tottenham lost 3 of them in the home against Liverpool, Manchester City, and Wolverhampton. After having a crisis of goal scoring striker, Chelsea boss finally must have felt relief after Morata scored the two goals in their weekend FA Cup match. It will be interesting to see who will play in the place of Heung-min Son in this match for Tottenham.

My prediction: Tottenham to win the match by 2-0.

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