Portsmouth have been struggling in recent weeks and Chelsea have been thoroughly professional, grinding out the results and ensure success on the pitch. While both teams have been short handed with players moving for the African Cup of Nations. But Nicolas Anelka has been playing well even though he has just opened his account last week, he has been deadly in the last third of the pitch, setting up and creating chances. The midfield of Ballack, Joe Cole, SWP and Malouda have been simply superb backed up by Makelele, is the reason why they haven’t conceded goals. I have an amazing statistic for everyone, which really puts the onus on Pompey, they have lost 7 out of 7 games against Chelsea in the league over the last 4 years and Chelsea look to dominate early times, get the goal and then sit back and attack on the counter attack. I don’t see Defoe passing Cech on his opening game in the league and Chelsea should continue to get the result they liked.