Bolton v Chelsea

Reebok Stadium
Sunday, 7 October
Kick-off: 1500 BST
Coverage on the BBC Sport website, BBC Radio Five Live & highlights on Match of the Day. Featured game on Sunday's Score and Final Score.

Team news to follow later.

BIG-MATCH FACTS

Chelsea return to the ground where they won their initial Premier League title in April 2005, looking to clinch back-to-back wins for the first time under Avram Grant, after Wednesday's 1-2 victory in Spain over Valencia in the Champions League; Bolton were also victorious in Europe having qualified for the group stages of the Uefa Cup.

The Londoners have made their worst start to a Premier League season since 2000, and are looking for a first goal in five matches.

Bolton, unbeaten in five in all competitions, face one of the so called "Big Four" for the first time this season, having won one of their first eight league outings. They managed just one victory in their first nine matches of the 1963-64 season, when they went on to be relegated and exiled from the top division for 14 years.

Chelsea are vying for a fifth successive Premier League victory at the Reebok Stadium.

CLUB FORM

BOLTON WANDERERS
Club stats
Fixtures
(all statistics are ahead of this weekend's round of Premier League fixtures)

1. Pressing for a first win in five Premier League games.

2. Claimed one victory in 14 league outings; 3-0, home to Reading on 25 August.

3. The victory over Reading is the only occasion in which they have scored more than a single goal in a league game this term, and kept a clean sheet in 15 attempts.

4. One of four clubs with just one Premier League victory so far this season. The others are Derby, Fulham and Tottenham.

5. One of three clubs to have lost five Premier League matches. The others are Derby and Reading.

6. Dropped 19 Premier League points. Only Derby match that.

7. Scored in all but one of the last 23 Premier League matches; the 1-0 loss, away to Birmingham on 15 September being the exception.

8. Not won in six Premier League games against London opposition, although the 0-1 defeat to Chelsea on 29 November 2006 is the only reverse in nine league matches against clubs from the capital at the Reebok.

9. Need two more goals to total 200 in home Premier League matches all-time.

10. The next match after the international break, is away to Arsenal.

CHELSEA
Club stats
Fixtures
(all statistics are ahead of this weekend's round of Premier League fixtures)

1. Pressing for a first win in five Premier League games.

2. The only club in the top 12 of the Premier League with a negative goal difference.

3. Needing one victory to record 1,500 wins in their League history.

4. On the longest current scoreless streak in the Premier League of 419 minutes (six hours 59 minutes) since Frank Lampard's winner against Portsmouth on 25 August.

5. One of three clubs to have failed to score in four Premier League matches so far this season; the others are Derby and Birmingham.

6. Opened the scoring in fewer Premier League matches than any other club; just once (v Portsmouth).

7. Gained an unrivalled seven Premier League points from losing positions this term.

8. Yet to win a league game under Avram Grant; one draw, one defeat so far.

9. Defeat would equal their total of away league losses last season; three.

KEY PLAYER NOTES

BOLTON WANDERERS

Nicolas ANELKA is Bolton's leading scorer with six goals - five of which were in the Premier League.

ANELKA and Jussi JAASKALAINEN are the only players to have been on the field for every minute of every one of Bolton's Premier League matches this season.

Gary SPEED, the only player to have netted in every Premier League season, is a hat-trick shy of 100 career league goals (Leeds, Everton, Newcastle and Bolton).

If selected:-

SPEED will be extending his record breaking number of Premier League appearances to 530.

Abdoulaye MEITE will be playing the day after turning 27.

MEITE will also be making his 50th appearance in a Bolton shirt.

If on the field from the outset:-

CHELSEA

Frank LAMPARD is Chelsea's leading scorer with three goals - all in the Premier League.

Goalkeeper Petr CECH is the only player who has been on the field for every minute of every one of Chelsea's Premier League matches this season.

If on the field from the outset:-

ASHLEY COLE will be making his 50th start in a Chelsea shirt.

Suspended:-

Mikel John OBI (one match) and Didier DROGBA (one match).

HEAD TO HEAD

Bolton have not scored in four successive home Premier League matches against Chelsea.

The Trotters have not won in seven meetings with Chelsea since a 1-2 triumph at Stamford Bridge on 13 December 2003, and have not picked up three points at home against them in six matches (drawn two, lost four) since 1-0 on 26 October 1997 when Dean Holdsworth scored.

Home and away
League (inc PL): Bolton 34 wins, Chelsea 38, Draws 26
Prem: Bolton 3 wins, Chelsea 9, Draws 4

at Bolton only
League (inc PL): Bolton 22 wins, Chelsea 13, Draws 14
Prem: Bolton 2 wins, Chelsea 4, Draws 2

LAST SEASON'S CORRESPONDING GAME

Bolton Wanderers 0-1 Chelsea
29 November 2006 - Ref: Steve Bennett
Chelsea scorer: Ballack 45

REFEREE

Alan Wiley (Burntwood, Staffordshire)