Wolves vs Chelsea Matchday Stats Preview

Wolves have won their last three Premier League games against Chelsea, as many as they had in their previous 17 (D4 L10). Only once before have they won more consecutive league games against the Blues, a run of five between November 1938 and September 1947.

Chelsea are winless in four away league games against Wolves (D1 L3), since a 5-2 victory in September 2019 under Frank Lampard.

Wolves have lost six of their nine Premier League home games so far in 2024 (W3), with no side losing more. They’d only lost four of their 20 league games at Molineux in the whole of 2023.

Chelsea have conceded at least once in each of their last 16 Premier League away games, their longest run without a clean sheet on the road since a run of 24 between January 1993 and February 1994.

Wolves have lost their last four Premier League matches. They haven’t lost more consecutively since a six-game run between May and August 2021 (three with Nuno Espírito Santo, three with Bruno Lage), while the last Wolves manager to lose five in a row was Terry Connor in March and April 2012 (seven).

Chelsea suffered a 2-0 defeat to Manchester City on MD1 this season. The Blues haven’t lost their opening two league games in a season since 1973-74, while the last Chelsea manager to lose his first two matches in charge was Gianluca Vialli in February 1998.

Wolves didn’t name a single Englishman in their starting XI on MD1 against Arsenal, the first time they’ve done so in a Premier League game. Gary O’Neil was the first English manager to not name an English player in a starting XI since Steve McClaren for Newcastle against Leicester in November 2015.

Chelsea handed four Premier League club debuts to players against Manchester City on Sunday (Guiu, Veiga, Dewsbury-Hall, Neto), taking their total to 23 debuts since the start of last season, five more than any other club who haven’t been newly promoted in that time.

Since the start of last season, only Conor Gallagher (83) has committed more fouls in the Premier League than Wolves’ João Gomes (69), with Gomes receiving 12 yellow cards, the second-most in that time behind Marcos Senesi and João Palhinha (13).

Enzo Fernández led all Chelsea players for shots (3) and touches in the opposition box (7) in their 2-0 opening day defeat to Man City. In only one of his previous 46 Premier League games had he managed seven touches in the opposition box, doing so in January against Fulham.