
Chelsea
will go "hammer and tongs" to end Tottenham's title hopes on Monday Night
Football, according to Ray Wilkins.
The sides clash on
Sky Sports 1HD with Mauricio Pochettino's team
needing to end a 26-year wait for victory at Stamford Bridge to stop
Leicester winning the Premier League title.
Tottenham have played 23 times at Chelsea in the Premier League and have
never won, drawing eight and losing 15 times - the longest losing away
streak in Premier League history.
Former Chelsea player and coach Wilkins believes these stats will not hamper
Spurs' belief, but he expects the outgoing champions to end their pursuit of
the championship.
"Spurs will take the game as it comes. They won't be worried too much about
those stats," he told
Sky Sports News HQ.
"They're playing some exceptional football at the moment and they'll think
they can go and win at Stamford Bridge tonight.
"Those players have to believe. The Chelsea lads don't get on with
Tottenham, shall we say, and they will be going hammer and tongs to make
sure Chelsea win and Claudio Ranieri wraps up the title."
Chelsea midfielder and ex-Arsenal star Cesc Fabregas recently admitted, as a
pundit on
Monday Night Football, that he did not want Spurs to win
the league.
And Wilkins said: "He's an ex-Gooner, so he's got that bit extra against
Tottenham anyway, and you'd expect him to have that opinion.
"Chelsea have underperformed and they will want to stop Tottenham
progressing tonight.
"It will be played in that environment and if John Terry comes back, as much
as Tottenham will be fired-up to win, he'll make sure Chelsea are too."