Chelsea enter Leeds United contest as hot favourites

Chelsea and Leeds United face off this Saturday at the Stamford Bridge in an intriguing match in the Premier League . Currently, the blues are 10th in the table with 31 points, while Javi Gracia's team are 17th with 22 points.

Chelsea go into the game on the back of a 2x0 defeat against Tottenham (Premier League 2022/2023), while the visitors lost 2x0 to Fulham (The FA Cup 2022/23). Ahead of the contest, Graham Potter's team is on a sequence of 5 games without a win in the Premier League 2022/23. When analysing the previous encounters between the teams, the blues and Leeds United have faced each other one hundred seven times, with Javi Gracia's team holding the advantage: 40 victories, against 37 victories of Chelsea. Specifically in the Stamford Bridge, Graham Potter's team has the advantage in the duels against Leeds United: 29 wins in 55 games. Javi Gracia's team has 11 wins.

Considering only the Premier League, there have been eighty-five games played between the two teams, with 37 wins for Leeds United, 22 draws and 26 wins for Chelsea.

Considering the Premier League 2022/23, from Chelsea's most influential players, Kai Havertz has entered the pitch 23 times, and Thiago Silva has played the most minutes (1812). Kai Havertz has scored 5 goals, the most across Chelsea's squad. As for Leeds United, Illan Meslier is the most used player in a total of 24 games (2160 min). Rodrigo Moreno is the current best scorer with 10 goals.

The last meeting between the two teams ended with Leeds United winning 3x0. Chelsea are given the favouritism to win this match.