EPL 1/1/2008 - Fulham vs Chelsea

Another new year, another round of the best EPL games on offer. Fulham vs Chelsea welcomes 2008 and it is certainly a game which will set our imagination alight and tongues wagging. The football world sits in anticipation at the silky skills and red hot action that awaits us in the soccer architectural masterpiece that is Craven Cottage in the live streaming Fulham vs Chelsea game.

Are you ready for new Fulham manager Roy Hodgson's organized and tactical prowess as he attempts to lay a defensive stranglehold on Avram Grant's marauding football buccaneers? Are you salivating just thinking of the athletic beauty of Chelsea's African contingent while jumping in two-footed on opponents? Getting all hot under the collar as you just cannot wait for the multiple red cards to be flashed?

Chelsea are enjoying a red hot patch themselves - of immense luck, which they guarantee from their plucky play. However, they do lack a little confidence when under the cosh, but again, luck has been their byword in the past week or so. They spend 70% of the time misplacing passes and kicking opponents, get a lucky rebound and score with their only chance(s) of each game. Certainly even Shevchenko would have to be surplus to requirements based on this form.

Birmingham was the subject of the Soccer Rag jinx while succumbing to dreadful Fulham. No doubt it would have been the new manager effect, and it might continue again tonight like so many football writers and papers are saying. Chelsea will struggle and Fulham has a great chance to score an upset. Not based on this Chelsea form, I say. They might have a whole first 11 in the treatment room, but kick a few more opponents and launch some long range longshots and you are likely to score, especially against faceless opponents from Craven Cottage.

Chelsea to win - I think the handicap certainly looks safe for a no bet at least.