Bournemouth vs Chelsea Premier League LIVE Football Score 17/09/2023
Bournemouth vs Chelsea: Match Preview
AFC Bournemouth will host Chelsea at the Vitality Stadium on Sunday, September 17, 2023, in a Premier League match. The match is scheduled to kick off at 2:00 PM BST.
Bournemouth
Bournemouth are coming into the match after a 2-2 draw against Brentford in their last Premier League match. They have had a winless start to the season, with two draws and two losses in their first four matches.
Bournemouth will be looking to improve their home record against Chelsea, having won only one of their last six Premier League home matches against the Blues. Their last home win against Chelsea was a 4-0 victory in January 2019.
Chelsea
Chelsea are coming into the match after a 2-1 win against Leicester City in their last Premier League match. They have had a mixed start to the season, with two wins and two losses in their first four matches.
Chelsea will be looking to continue their unbeaten run against Bournemouth in the Premier League. They have won two and drawn one of their last three matches against the Cherries.
Team News
Bournemouth
Bournemouth are without any major injury concerns. They are expected to start with a similar lineup to the one that drew against Brentford last week.
Chelsea
Chelsea are without the injured N’Golo Kante and Wesley Fofana. They are also a doubt over the fitness of Mateo Kovacic.
Predicted Lineups
Bournemouth: Neto; Smith, Stephens, Kelly; Fredericks, Cook, Lerma, Tavernier; Billing, Solanke, Anthony
Chelsea: Mendy; Azpilicueta, Silva, Koulibaly; James, Gallagher, Jorginho, Chilwell; Mount, Sterling, Havertz
Head-to-Head Record
Chelsea have a dominant head-to-head record against Bournemouth, winning 19 of their 27 meetings in all competitions. Bournemouth have won five of the meetings, with three draws.
The last time the two teams met was in May 2023, in a Premier League match at the Vitality Stadium. Chelsea won the match 3-1, with Conor Gallagher, Benoît Badiashile, and João Félix scoring for the Blues.
Match Prediction
Chelsea are the favorites to win the match, given their superior quality and experience. However, Bournemouth are a tough team to beat at home, and they will be looking to take advantage of Chelsea’s recent inconsistent form.
Prediction: Bournemouth 1-2 Chelsea
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Meanwhile, Bournemouth are 16th in the league table, having failed to win a single league game so far. They will look to pull off a morale-boosting victory at home against an inconsistent Chelsea side.
The Cherries are unbeaten in their last two matches across all competitions, and they will look to grind out a positive result here. The Hard Tackle takes a closer look at the encounter ahead of the latest meeting between the two sides.
Both flattering to deceive under new management so far, Bournemouth and Chelsea aim to right some recent wrongs when they lock horns in Sunday’s Premier League battle at the Vitality Stadium.
Andoni Iraola’s men went into the international break on the back of a 2-2 draw with Brentford, while their capital counterparts’ misfortune continued in a 1-0 home loss to Nottingham Forest
Four days on from making the net ripple against Swansea City in his native Wales during the second round of the EFL Cup, Bournemouth winger David Brooks continued his fairytale return to the Cherries’ setup against Brentford, scoring his first Premier League goal in 1144 days following his Non-Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis.
Event details:
NAME: Bournemouth – Chelsea
DATE: 17 Sept 2023
TIME: 13:00 UTC
VENUE: Vitality Stadium, Bournemouth, England
Chelsea were beaten by Nottingham Forest at Stamford Bridge, and the fans will expect a strong reaction from the players against Bournemouth on Sunday afternoon. The certainly have the better team here, and they will be expected to emerge victorious in the end.
It has been a disappointing start to the Premier League campaign for the Blues, and they have picked up just one win from four league matches while sitting 12th in the league table. A club of their stature should be pushing for major trophies, and it remains to be seen whether Mauricio Pochettino can get his side firing once again.