You Bet | Crunch time for Antonio Conte’s favoured Premier League leaders Chelsea against overpriced Tottenham Hotspur
The hosts deserve to be clear favourites at Stamford Bridge, but the visitors on the handicap and over 2.5 goals look the best bets
Has Antonio Conte come up with a title-winning formula for Chelsea, the new leaders of the English Premier League?
We will soon have more of an answer as Conte’s side host Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday morning (Hong Kong time) before travelling to face Manchester City next Saturday.
The question is there for Chelsea because they have played three of the other big six teams this season and lost twice at home to Liverpool and away to Arsenal while winning only once at home to Manchester United.
United are the weakest of the big six at the moment and both City and Tottenham are closer to the level of Liverpool and Arsenal, which suggests Chelsea might have problems.
But the counter-weight to that view is that Conte changed to a three-man defence only after the Liverpool and Arsenal defeats.
That system has carried Chelsea to six straight league wins including the 4-0 win over United and to the top of the table, with the next two games now serving as an acid test of whether Conte’s change has made them a genuinely better team.