EFL Cup Final Betting Tips & Predictions

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5 August, 2024

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Chelsea v Manchester City

The 2019 EFL Cup final takes place on Sunday 24 February with a 4.00pm kick-off shown live on Sky Sports. Chelsea and Manchester City do battle over the first available silverware of the season and pundits are expecting a thriller at Wembley Stadium, one for the game’s purists. It’s all set to be big, so check out our best EFL Cup Final betting tips.

These giants of English football have met no less than 159 times in the past on competitive action with the head-to-head stats reading Chelsea 65-55 Man City with 39 draws. Which category will be bumped up one in this final? It could be the draw, but the match will be played to a conclusion to decide the winner, with extra-time and penalties used if needed.

Bookmakers have got into the spirit of things and put in the work to ensure punters can enjoy the show that little bit more with a bet. You can have your say on hundreds of exciting markets, including match winner, to lift the trophy, method of victory, both teams to score, total goals, handicap, first goalscorer, last goalscorer, anytime goalscorer and just about anything else you can imagine. We have a fantastic afternoon of sport ahead and you can profit from the occasion.

Bookmakers have Man City as favourites to leave with the bragging rights, keeping them on course for a domestic clean-sweep. That remains a real possibility of Pep and his crew at the minute, but to have any chance of a treble they must first see off their old rivals from London.

Chelsea a Confident Bunch

Chelsea booked their place in the final with a well-deserved win over neighbours Tottenham across two legs last month. The Blues started with a 1-0 defeat at this venue on 8 January, Harry Kane converting a 26th-minute penalty to give his employers a slender advantage, but it wasn’t to be enough to send them through. Chelsea travelled home that night confident they could overturn the deficit and that’s exactly what they did.

A thrilling 2-1 win at Stamford Bridge followed, thanks to goals from Kante and Hazard, bettering a 50th-minute reply from Llorente. That forced the fixture into extra-time and then penalties, Chelsea held their nerve from the spot to book a quick-fire return to the national stadium courtesy of a 4-2 result.

Victorious manager Maurizio Sarri told members of the press at the end of the match his boys showed a great level of determination to get the result and thought the right team progressed. Opposite number Mauricio Pochettino took it on the chin, saying he’d prefer to lose on penalties than in the game itself. That win means Sarri is only the sixth manager to take Chelsea to the final of the tournament and the fourth to achieve that during his first season at the club.