Norwich City vs. Chelsea
Venue: Carrow Road
Kick off: 8:45pm
Norwich City’s survival bid continues on Tuesday night when they welcome Guus Hiddink’s resurgent Chelsea to Carrow Road.
The Canaries are only out of the relegation zone on goal difference and could drop into the bottom three with a defeat by two or more goals, while Chelsea are bidding to climb to their highest league position since the opening day of the season.
Despite currently sitting outside the bottom three in the Premier League table, relegation continues to loom large for Norwich following a torrid run of form.
The bookmakers have them as favourites to go down alongside the current bottom two of Aston Villa and Sunderland, and it is hard to argue against that position on the evidence of the past two months.
With Watford, Liverpool and Stoke City all in action on the Wednesday night, victory for Chelsea at Carrow Road would lift them up to eighth in the table – their highest position since the opening day and only five points adrift of Manchester United.
A victory and a return to the top half against a Norwich side who sat above them in the table as recently as the start of January would be another step in the right direction for the Londoners, and will no doubt see the calls for Guus Hiddink to stay on grow even louder.
Norwich possible starting lineup: Ruddy, Pinto, Bennett, Martin, Klose, Brady, Redmond, Tettey, Howson, Naismith, Jerome.
Chelsea possible starting lineup: Courtois, Azpilicueta, Cahill, Ivanovic, Baba Rahman, Fabregas, Mikel, Willian, Oscar, Hazard, Costa.