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Chelsea vs Fulham Bet Builder Tips: 2.30 Builder for Friday Night Premier League Clash

Sam Ingram

Chelsea vs Fulham Bet Builder Tips: Friday, February 3rd

Incomings aplenty don Chelsea blue in a season steeped with change in south London, with a handful of new faces shaping the upcoming Chelsea vs Fulham bet builder tips here at bettingexpert.

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Chelsea vs Fulham Preview
Chelsea vs Fulham Stats & Facts
Chelsea vs Fulham Bet Builder

Chelsea vs Fulham Preview

Friday, February 3rd, 19:45 (UK)

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’d have seen Todd Boehly’s wallet proving to be a key player in both transfer windows, shelling out £552 million in 2022/23. That’s the most spent by a football club in a single campaign in the sport’s history.

In 2016/17, Barcelona spent £335 million, a fee dwarfed by a free-spending Blues setup with their wealthy, determined American owner at the helm. Furthermore, Chelsea’s January spending was more than La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1 and the Bundesliga combined in the transfer window just gone.

Of course, we can add a change of manager to the number of new faces at Chelsea. A head coach now under more pressure to perform whichever way you look at it.

A £100+ million move for Enzo Fernandez was the cherry on a rather expensive January window; Mudryk and Felix are the two other superstar forward options that appear likely to revitalise a Chelsea forward line if their recent cameo performances are anything to go by. The latter is serving the last game of his suspension following his dismissal against Fulham just two Premier League games ago. Mudryk? He looks sharp and ready to go.

Saša Lukić from Torino and Arsenal loanee Cedric Soares come in to aid Fulham’s top-flight journey. Perhaps not as exciting as what we’ve seen from Friday night’s opponents, but a clear step in the right direction, adding experience, quality and depth in equal measure.

The tough-tackling, no-nonsense Serb in the middle of the park should compliment Palhinha well – a central midfield pairing equipped with a skillset to frighten the life out of anyone sharing that area of the pitch with them. Whether he’ll get his debut against Chelsea is up in the air, but one thing is for sure, the Fulham midfield will have their hands full at the Bridge.

Chelsea vs Fulham Stats & Facts

All six of Chelsea’s fixtures following the return post-World Cup has encouraged over 2.5xG.
Fulham’s recent win over Chelsea was their fourth win in 53 top-flight matches against The Blues.
The visitors’ (7th) 1.48 points per90 total from 21 matches only just pips Chelsea’s (10th) 1.45.
Chelsea outspent the whole of the other four of Europe’s leading divisions in January.

Chelsea vs Fulham Bet Builder

The Cottagers overcame ten-man Chelsea last time out, though they certainly rode their luck a little. Joao Felix was nothing short of game-changing before his early red card, having six of Chelsea’s 20 shots at goal. Nevertheless, Fulham’s 2-1 victory is impressive and isn’t their first versus a side they should be struggling against on paper.

Nevertheless, Chelsea’s 2.17xG to Fulham’s 0.97xG tells a different, underlying story. Can Fulham flirt with the xG demons and still come out on top? We shall see. However, I’m expecting waves of Blue pressure in front of an expectant Stamford Bridge and powers that be in the boardroom.

For the first pick, Fulham will need to keep up with their season averages of conceding 14.90 shots per90. Do that, and the Over 13.5 shots in the bet builder will have a chance. For the hosts, the 11.56 attempts each game at Stamford Bridge offers a bluntness in attack. Yet, with the inclusion of Mudryk and other offensive thinking components, that may begin to change – starting with Fulham on Friday night.

Fulham have been impressive on the road, but I’m backing against them here. They enter the match as the seventh-best away form in the divisions, winning four and losing five of their ten matches. For a newly-printed team, that’s hugely impressive.

Regardless, Chelsea needs victories. Graham Potter requires a reaction from his new-look Chelsea outfit and one that sees them progress up the table. With that in mind, the new players on show, and the 90 minutes we saw just a few weeks ago, I’m opting for a ‘safe’ angle of Chelsea or Draw & at least one Chelsea goal in the game.

As an accompaniment of expected Chelsea pressure, corners of the blue variety shouldn’t be too far away. Not only did they force seven at Craven Cottage, but they’ve also recorded four or more corners in 78% of home fixtures, producing a 6.11 corners-forced average.