Game: Sunderland v Chelsea

Venue: Stadium of Light

Day: Saturday, 15 March

Time: Kick-off: 1500 GMT



Sunderland is living quite irregular as they have quality but they are performing very bad.

They are 2 points above the water line and the relegation is very near.

They made three poor results on the last 3 matches, by losing against Portsmouth, then drawing against poor Derby and after that, losing at home by 0-1 with Everton.

For this match Sunderland winger Carlos Edwards could return to the squad for the first time since suffering a broken leg against Derby on 1 December.

Dickson Etuhu (knee) is likely to be missing again and Anthony Stokes (virus) has not trained this week.

Chelsea in back on the good moments after they clashed Derby by an impressive 6-1.

For this match Keeper Petr Cech (ankle) is Chelsea's only absentee so Carlo Cudicini continues in goal.

Manager Avram Grant must decide whether to recall Didier Drogba up front, or stick with Nicolas Anelka.

I think Drogba will probably start up and the Blues have good conditions to win this match by 0-2 easily as they are much better then Sunderland.

Avram Grant also needs support and goos results on the Premiership or it probably ends sacked by Abramovich.

Players Called:

Sunderland : Gordon, Fulop, Bardsley, Collins, McShane, Evans, Higginbotham, Harte, Whitehead, Reid, Leadbitter, Edwards, Miller, Richardson, O'Donovan, Jones, Waghorn, Murphy, Stokes, Chopra, Prica.

Chelsea: Cudicini, Hilario, Ferreira, Belletti, A Cole, Bridge, Carvalho, Ben-Haim, Alex, Terry, J Cole, Wright-Phillips, Malouda, Pizarro, Drogba, Shevchenko, Lampard, Essien, Makelele, Obi, Anelka, Sidwell, Ballack.

Pick : Chelsea AH -1
Odds : 1.74
Stake : 7 / 10
Bookmaker : Bet365
Match Result : 0-1
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