CHELSEA VS PORTSMOUTH 2010 FA CUP BETTING TIPS

If ever a club’s supporters deserved a little respite then it must surely be those who have turned up at Fratton Park throughout the course of this season. A fairytale FA Cup campaign has ran concurrently with a catastrophic sequence of off-field events which, at one stage, seriously threatened to put the club out of existence.

However, as Fulham demonstrated on Wednesday night, not all football fairytales have a happy ending. Especially when it is the Premier League champions and country’s form team that stand in your way. Chelsea have now scored 17 and conceded none in their last three fixtures, games which apparently held a certain amount of pressure in their title winning run-in.
There is no doubt that the neutrals will be hoping for a Portsmouth win, but the realists will know that they have it all do. Odds of 17.0 (16/1) at Betfair on a Portsmouth win inside the 90 minutes are an accurate reflection of the task at hand for the south coast club, with Chelsea as short as 1.2 (1/5).
Didier Drogba and Frank Lampard continued their mean scoring streaks at the weekend, the former after acting like a petulant schoolboy as the latter took an early penalty, and few are betting against them relenting this weekend. Drogba is as short as 1/2 and Lampard at 5/6 with Bet365 in the To Score Anytime market.
Given the free flowing nature with which Chelsea have been playing of late it is no surprise to see Over 2.5 goals as short as 1.6 (8/13) on Betfair, but it may pay to back the Under 2.5 at 2.6 (13/8) to begin with. Pompey haven’t been conceding a lot of late, six in their last seven games, and so although they have been rooted to the bottom of the table all season I don’t foresee us getting the cricket score line that The Blues produced against Stoke and Wigan.
This may be the last time that we see Portsmouth on such a stage for a long time to come, is there anything left in the tank to give their fans one last hurrah?