Chelsea v Spurs 24th Mar 12
Chelsea v Tottenham
Fifth placed Chelsea entertain fourth placed Spurs knowing defeat will seriously dent their chances of Champions League football next season
Spurs are currently five points clear of Chelsea and a win here would make it eight points which would probably too big a gap to make up at this stage of the season
Spurs have out scored Chelsea 53 to 49 but the Blues have the better defensive record with 34 goals conceded one fewer than Spurs
Chelsea have the fifth best home record in the PL with 29 points out of a possible 45 from nine wins and two draws to go with three defeats against Arsenal, Liverpool and Aston Villa
Chelsea have conceded 19 goals at home, only six teams have conceded more than that, but they have managed three clean sheets in their last four matches at the Bridge’
Chelsea are looking to make it three in a row at the Bridge’ since their 3-3 draw against Man United
Spurs have the fifth best away record in the PL with 21 points from six wins and three draws to go with five defeats
Spurs recent for on the road is poor with a five match winless streak which includes three defeats and two draw as they look to avoid a third successive away defeat
Leading scorer for either side is Emmanuel Adebayor with 11 goals, one more than Chelsea’s Frank Lampard
Lampard has scored double figures now in nine consecutive seasons
Spurs are the top scorers in the first 15 minutes of PL matches this season with 10 goals, four more than Chelsea in this period
Chelsea finish stronger with nine goals in the last 10 minutes of matches, three more than Spurs
Chelsea have the worst record in the PL for conceding goals in the last 10 minutes of matches with 13, eight more than Spurs have conceded in the same period
Spurs have the third meanest record for conceding in the first 15 minutes of matches with two, four fewer than Chelsea
Spurs have used just 21 different starters the joint lowest in the PL and two fewer than Chelsea
Spurs have used 10 players 21 or under, the fifth most and four more than Chelsea in the PL this season
Spurs midfielder Scott Parker is the second most booked player in the PL this season with eight yellow cards, one more than the Chelsea pair Ashley Cole and John Terry
Chelsea have picked up more yellow cards than any other team in the PL with 60, five more than Blackburn and 23 more than Spurs, who have received the third fewest
Spurs have had the joint fewest penalties awarded against them than any other side in the PL with one, three fewer than Chelsea
Ashley Cole has played most matches for the Blues in the Pl this season with 28 out of 29, one more than goalkeeper Petr Cech
Flourent Malouda is Chelsea’s most used sub coming off the bench 13 times
Spanish International Juan Mata is Chelsea’s most substituted player coming off in 13 of his 25 starts
Spurs have two ever presents with both Benoit Assou-Ekotto and Brad Friedel starting all 29 matches, one more than full back Kyle Walker
Dutch midfielder Rafael van der Vaart is Spurs most substituted player coming off in 13 of his 20 starts
Spurs have scored first in 19 of their 29 matches, winning 15, drawing three and losing just one, 5-2 at Arsenal
Chelsea have scored first in 18 of their 29 matches, winning 12, drawing three and losing three times
Spurs have only once come back after conceding the first goal in nine matches when they won 3-1 away at West Brom
Chelsea have also conceded first nine times and they have come back to win twice, both 2-1 home wins against West Brom and Man City
Chelsea with nine have scored three times as many headed goals than Spurs who have conceded twice as many headed goals than the Blues, eight to four
Spurs have scored nine goals with shots form outside the penalty area, seven more than Chelsea but the Blues have only conceded one goal from a shot from outside the penalty area
Fixture History
Earlier in the season at White Hart Lane the two drew 1-1 with Daniel Sturridge cancelling out an Emmanuel Adebayor 8th minute strike in the 23rd minute
Last season Chelsea were 2-1 home winners over Spurs
Spurs have never won on 19 visits to Stamford Bridge in the PL with Chelsea winning 13 and the other six drawn
Overall in the series in 39 matches Chelsea lead 22/3 with 14 matches drawn
Spurs have failed to score in 10 of their 19 visits to the Bridge’ and only twice scored more than one goal
Chelsea have scored in 17 of their 19 home matches against Spurs
Spurs have only scored three goals in their last seven matches at Stamford Bridge
Chelsea have outscored Spurs 37-12 at home in the PL
Teddy Sheringham with three has scored most goals by a Spurs player at the Bridge' whilst Frederic Kanoute is the only Spurs to score twice in a match at the Stamford Bridge
Current Chelsea manager Roberto di Matteo has scored in this fixture when Chelsea were 3-1 home winners back in October 1996
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink scored the only hat trick in this fixture in a 4-0 win back in March 2002
Frank Lampard has played against Spurs 27 times in the PL and scored seven goals including four at Stamford Bridge
Didier Drogba, the most recent addition to the 100 PL goials club, has just three goals against Spurs in 13 matches including just one at Stamford Bridge
Emmanuel Adebayor has just two goals in nine matches against Chelsea and in 0/3 at Stamford Bridge
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