Chelsea v Middlesbrough
Wednesday 28 January 2009, Stamford Bridge
Kickoff: 19:45
After some very shaky form of late, Chelsea will hope to have turned their fortunes around after a last minute victory against Stoke last week. This week, they play a faltering Middlesbrough side in what will hopefully for the Blues be two wins in a row in the midweek Chelsea v Middlesbrough match.
Chelsea
Chelsea won their last league outing 2-1 at home against Stoke City, making it their second league win in the last six games.
They have drawn three and lost one of those last six games, yielding 9 points from the 18 offered. The Blues have scored 7 goals and leaked 7 also during this spell, slipping down to third in the league.
Chelsea have recently suffered a big blow with news that Joe Cole will be out for the rest of the season with cruciate knee ligaments injury and he joins Michael Essien (knee) on the long term injury list, whilst Deco (calf) and John Terry (back) are expected to be fit.
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Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough lost 3-0 in their last league outing away against West Bromwich Albion, extending a miserable run of 10 games without a win since beating Aston Villa 2-1 at Villa Park.
They have lost six and drawn…
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