Wolves need a rescue, Chelsea will not offer one
Wolverhampton Wanderers host leaders Chelsea on Wednesday six points from safety, while the visitors arrive with 28 wins from 31 league games.
Can Wolves make Chelsea’s title march uncomfortable — and give their own survival fight a pulse?
Their form reads LLDLD, and they have won only six of 33 league games. Chelsea, by contrast, have 85 points from 31 matches and sit top, with 28 wins.
The more recent history offers little comfort: Chelsea have won two of the last three meetings.
Wolves will be without Eduardo and Aris Vrabie, both regulars, while Chelsea are missing Pablo Ferrer. That leaves the home side with a difficult task against a club that has won the league in each of the past 41 seasons — a run still alive. Chelsea also beat Newcastle United 1-0 in the FA Cup today. The league, though, is the urgent business.
There is a personal thread in Billy Laing, now with Chelsea after two seasons at Wolves. But sentiment will not buy the home side a point. For Wolves, this is a chance to turn a precarious position into a fight with some life; for Chelsea, anything less than a serious performance would be an invitation to doubt.