CHELSEA welcomes Barrow in the round of 16 of the English League Cup. The match is played at Stamford Bridge from 20.45.
England is the cradle of football, which may not be seen in the results of their national team, but club football records solid results. That the English love football is also shown by the attention they pay to cup competitions, even when the Premier League teams meet with the lower leagues.
It’s a tough case even today when the Blues welcome the leader of League Two. After five rounds, Barrow is first in the table of the fourth tier of English football. They tied five games without defeat. Their manager is Steven Klemens. The man with the famous surname is the son of the legendary goalkeeper of Liverpool, Tottenham and the English national team, Rejo.
In the previous round of the League Cup, Barrow shocked Derby at their “Holker Street”, a beautiful traditional English stadium that holds six and a half thousand spectators, although it used to be more, so seven decades ago a record of 17,000 spectators was set against Swansea.
Barrow are in League Two for the fifth season, and for the last two have been very close to getting into League One, the third tier of the competition, in which they have not played since 1969/70. Two seasons before that, they qualified for League One, and at the same time, that year they last played in the third round of the League Cup.
Chelsea is, of course, the absolute favorite, but in several games this season (City and Palace at home, Servette away) they have shown some weaknesses. However, these are all teams with far better quality than Barrow and we should not expect a miracle at Stamford Bridge.
Currently, there are 64 teams between these two teams, if all the leagues were combined into one, and that is the biggest gap between the two rivals in this round of the League Cup.
OUR TIP: 4+ (odds 1.64)
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Source: www.novosti.rs
