The Blues go into Sunday’s contest at Stamford Bridge with renewed confidence regardless of their ongoing battle to rediscover some consistency of their battle for Champions League qualification, having produced a stirring second-half efficiency to brush apart Legia Warsaw 3-0 in Poland on Thursday night time and put one foot firmly within the Convention League semi-finals.
The hosts shall be sturdy favourites to beat an Ipswich crew who look destined to affix already-relegated Southampton in making a direct return to the Championship subsequent time period, with Kieran McKenna’s males sitting seventeenth and 12 factors adrift of security with solely seven video games left to play after a vastly damaging 2-1 house defeat by nearest rivals Wolves final day out – their nineteenth league lack of the season and sixth straight at Portman Highway.
Date, kick-off time and venue
Chelsea vs Ipswich is scheduled for a 2pm BST kick-off time on Sunday April 13, 2025.
The match will happen at Stamford Bridge in west London.
The place to observe Chelsea vs Ipswich
TV channel: Within the UK, the sport is not going to be televised reside with Liverpool vs West Ham as a substitute chosen for the early Tremendous Sunday window forward of Newcastle vs Manchester United.
Chelsea vs Ipswich was ineligible for broadcast choice having not initially been picked for TV after which pushed again a day as a result of Blues’ progress into the Convention League quarter-finals.
Free highlights: The Sky Sports activities app and YouTube channel will present highlights with Match of the Day 2 broadcasting on BBC One at 10:30pm BST on Sunday night time.
Chelsea vs Ipswich crew information
The likes of Nicolas Jackson, two-goal Noni Madueke, Levi Colwill, Enzo Fernandez, Trevoh Chalobah, Moises Caicedo and Marc Cucurella have been all named on the bench in Poland and shall be eyeing begins on Sunday with Legia unlikely to mount a comeback within the second leg at Stamford Bridge subsequent week. Robert Sanchez must also return in objective.
Early change: Cole Palmer was taken off at half-time as Chelsea beat Legia Warsaw 3-0 in Poland on Thursday
Motion Photographs through Reuters
Wesley Fofana has been dominated out for the season with a hamstring harm together with Omari Kellyman, whereas it stays to be seen precisely when Romeo Lavia will return. Marc Guiu is closing in on a comeback, although Mykhailo Mudryk stays unavailable.
For Ipswich, ex-Chelsea winger Omari Hutchinson stays a doubt. Sammie Szmodics, Chiedozie Ogbene, Wes Burns and Arijanet Muric are all out, although Leif Davis returned off the bench in opposition to Wolves.
Chelsea vs Ipswich prediction
Chelsea simply can not appear to place a run of wins collectively within the league to reflect their spectacular begin to life below Maresca, following up the victory over Tottenham with a stalemate in one other London derby at Brentford.
Nevertheless, their assertion second-half efficiency in Warsaw ought to present an honest confidence enhance and the Blues ought to as soon as once more take the handbrake off at house to a crew who now look all-but relegated after Wolves’ dramatic comeback win final weekend.
There is no such thing as a must relaxation gamers for the second leg in opposition to Legia and a powerful Chelsea crew ought to have greater than sufficient to see off a spirited however restricted Ipswich aspect who’ve gained solely as soon as within the league in 2025.
Face to face (h2h) historical past and outcomes
Earlier than that, the 2 sides had not met within the league since 2002 and solely twice since then within the cups, with Chelsea hitting Ipswich for seven in 2011.
Chelsea vs Ipswich match odds
Odds through Betfair (topic to alter).
