Facts: Three reasons why Chelsea will beat Arsenal

Chelsea host Arsenal on Sunday in a big London derby. Both teams share the same city whilst they are great rivals.

However, I’ll be looking at three reasons why Chelsea will beat Arsenal on Sunday.

• Chelsea (almost) always scores first:

Only Swansea have managed to take the lead among the last 12 Premier League teams to visit Stamford Bridge, and perhaps even more depressing than that for Arsenal fans, the last four Premier League teams who did get themselves in front at Stamford Bridge all ended up losing!
However, this is one of the bad news for Arsenal fans.

• Chelsea (almost always) wins when they score first:

Jose Mourinho’s side went ahead in games on 24 occasions last term, and lost only twice! Of the other 22 matches, they won 20 and drew two.
The only teams to buck that trend and come from behind to beat the Blues were Stoke and Sunderland. More recently, Chelsea have taken all three points from 12 of the last 14 home Premier League games in which they scored the first goal.

• Stop Costa, or its death:

It would be fair to say the Spaniard has hit the Premier League ground running. Running like Usain Bolt, in fact! He’s already scored eight top-flight goals, two of them being the first in the match. Last season, he smashed in 35 goals for Atletico Madrid in La Liga and the Champions League, ten of them the opening salvo. And guess what happened on all 12 of those occasions when he netted the first goal in a game? Come on, you don’t really need me to tell you, do you…?