Chelsea FC 0-2 Tottenham Hotspur FC: Premier League Match Report, 24 October 2026

Our preview of this match was written on 18 October 2026 but only went live on 1 November, after the final whistle. Its pick is reviewed below as it was written, and it is left out of our win rate and bankroll.

Goalless at half-time, then two for the visitors: Chelsea FC 0-2 Tottenham Hotspur FC. Both goals came after the interval, and that is all the record says about them; who scored, and how far apart, is unknown.

Chelsea came in fourth on 13 points from seven, goal difference +4, and unbeaten at home: two wins and a draw, with 17 goals in those three games. Tottenham were seventeenth on six at -4, five days after beating Coventry City 3-1 for their first win of the season.

The match looked nothing like Chelsea's earlier home games. They had scored in all three, conceded in all three and seen each one finish with four goals or more; here they did not score and the total stopped at two. It was their first home defeat of the season and their second blank, after a 3-0 loss at Brentford in September that was also goalless at the break.

For Tottenham it was a first away win at the fourth attempt, a third clean sheet in eight matches and a second win in five days, after six without one. It was also their first win over Chelsea in five meetings on record. The previous four, including a 2-1 at Stamford Bridge in May, all went Chelsea's way.

Tottenham finished seventeenth last season on 41 points, two above the relegation places, and spent the first six rounds of this one looking worse than that. Two wins in five days take them to nine points from eight, slightly ahead of last season's rate of a little over a point a game, and their goal difference has gone from -6 to -2 in the same short spell.

Chelsea stay on 13, now with three defeats and a goal difference of +2. That still compares well with last season's tenth place on 52, about 1.4 a game; 13 from eight is above it. The weakness is the one their earlier home games had already shown: fifteen goals conceded in eight matches. At home, until now, they had scored enough to cover it.

Our preview's call was Chelsea FC Win at 1.52. It carried high confidence and leaned hardest on one fact: Tottenham were winless, with three goals in six matches. The preview was written before the 3-1 over Coventry, so that premise was out of date by kick-off — Tottenham arrived with a win and six goals from seven.

Even on its own figures the case had a hole it acknowledged. Chelsea had conceded in every home game and thirteen in seven overall, and the preview noted that an opponent willing to sit deep needed only one goal to turn the match. Tottenham scored twice after a goalless first half. Four straight head-to-head wins and a ten-point table gap, seven by kick-off, did not justify "high" for a side with one clean sheet in seven.

Verdict: not counted. The pick would have lost, but the preview only went live after kick-off.