Chelsea favourites to steamroller Arsenal as run to top 4 continues

Chelsea and Arsenal face off tomorrow night in a London derby with real end-of-season feel to it.

If you were using your Quinnbet Coupon Code to have a flutter on the result, there is only one way you could go in terms of who might win – Thomas Tuchel’s Blues are heavy favourites everywhere you care to look, after a quite preposterous run of form since late January.

Having beaten pretty much every top manager in the game since he arrived, across all competitions, home and away, barely conceding a goal; the German coach would be favourite against any team in the world at this moment. Meanwhile the Gunners have just been eliminated from the Europa League by Unai Emery’s Villareal after a 0-0 draw at home.

Arsenal under Mikel Arteta have been an interesting proposition at times. He’s been there for well over a season and a half now let’s remember. Taking over in the post-Wenger wreckage, and arriving with fresh Pep Guardiola sheen of authenticity, the Basque has been given about as much time and as many excuses as he might want.

Sorting through a badly assembled squad has taken him time, and along the way there have been enough green shoots in the results to convince people that Arteta is really building something. An FA Cup win over Chelsea last summer seems to have given him a lot of extra rope. But after 20 months, hope seems to be fading a little that there’s ever going to be a Barcelona 3.0 in North London.

The instant success Thomas Tuchel has had at Chelsea has cast the Gunners’ progress in an even worse light. Those who were insisting they had to “trust the process” are now looking enviously across to Stamford Bridge, where “the process” was instant and required no trust at all, as it produced instant results.

Tomorrow will be tricky however, there’s no doubting that. It’s impossible to be 100% focused 100% of the time, and given we’re squeezing this one in between games against league leaders Man City, European Cup semis against Real Madrid and an FA Cup final against Leicester, it would be understandable if this was the one where we ended up taking our eye off the ball.

But given what we’ve seen from Tuchel so far – you’d be brave man to bet on it. We can wrap up our Champions League place for next season with a win – and we think we’ll get it.