Chelsea vs Bournemouth Matchday Stats Preview

Chelsea are unbeaten in four Premier League games against Bournemouth (W2 D2), having lost three of their four against them before this (W1).

Bournemouth have won 50% of their Premier League away games against Chelsea (3/6), the best win rate by a visiting side at Stamford Bridge (min. 5 games).

Chelsea are unbeaten in their last 13 games when finishing a Premier League campaign with a home game (W9 D4), last losing against Aston Villa in 2001-02 (1-3).

Bournemouth have alternated between winning (3) and losing (3) their final game in the last six seasons, going down 1-0 against Everton last term.

Chelsea have won nine of their last 11 Premier League home games (D1 L1), having won just one of their previous 14 at Stamford Bridge beforehand. They’ve won their last three by an aggregate score of 13-0, last winning more in a row at home without conceding between November and January in 2014-15 (5).

Since the turn of the year, only the Premier League’s top-three teams have picked up more points than Chelsea (38 – W11 D5 L3). They are looking to win five games in a row for the first time since doing so between January and March 2022 under Thomas Tuchel.

Bournemouth’s 13 wins in the Premier League this term is their joint-most in a single season (level with 2018-19), while as it stands their 15 defeats is their fewest across a single top-flight campaign.

Marcos Senesi has been booked 12 times in the Premier League this season, the joint most by a Bournemouth player in a single campaign along with Jefferson Lerma in 2018-19. No South American player has ever been booked 13 times in one season.

Cole Palmer has scored 14 goals in his last nine Premier League home games for Chelsea. Overall he’s scored 16 times at Stamford Bridge this term, with no player ever netting more home goals for the Blues in a single campaign.

So far this season, Dominic Solanke has scored the most goals (19), the most home goals (10) and the joint-most away goals (9) of any Bournemouth player in a single Premier League campaign.