{"id":457291,"date":"2026-02-06T09:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T09:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/457291\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T09:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T09:07:09","slug":"i-believe-paul-merson-gives-his-prediction-for-wolves-vs-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/457291\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI believe\u201d \u2013 Paul Merson gives his prediction for Wolves vs Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea travel to Wolves on Saturday afternoon in the Premier League, and Paul Merson has given his prediction for the game.<\/p>\n<p>After losing to Arsenal in the semi final of the Carabao Cup on Tuesday evening, Chelsea will be looking to return to winning ways.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Blues currently sit fifth, just a point behind Manchester United in fourth, and have made a good start to life under Liam Rosenior.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Merson makes Wolves vs Chelsea prediction<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chelsea.news\/2026\/02\/liam-rosenior-perfect-record-award-nomination\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Rosenior has been nominated for the January Manager of the Month award,;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Rosenior has been nominated for the January Manager of the Month award,<\/a> after winning all three of his Premier League games.<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old has won six of his opening eight games in charge, and will be looking to make it four league wins in a row when Chelsea head to the bottom club this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chelsea.news\/2026\/02\/liam-rosenior-jamie-gittens-update\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chelsea will be without Jamie Gittens;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Chelsea will be without Jamie Gittens<\/a> who\u2019s out with a hamstring injury, whilst it\u2019s unclear if Reece James and Pedro Neto will be fit to feature.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/aab589baf57b4094e6336e0ecca9694b.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Chelsea are looking to make it four league wins in a row. (Photo by Richard Pelham\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>The Blues have already beaten Wolves twice this season, once in the Carabao Cup, and Merson has made his prediction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is still a huge game for Chelsea, especially considering how it all fizzled out for them against Arsenal in the cup semi-final,\u201d he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportskeeda.com\/football\/news-paul-merson-predicts-liverpool-vs-manchester-city-manchester-united-vs-tottenham-premier-league-gw25-fixtures\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sportskeeda.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sportskeeda.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiam Rosenior has to win all three of his upcoming Premier League games. For Chelsea, it\u2019s Wolves away this weekend followed by Leeds and Burnley at home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI expect Joao Pedro to start this game. I thought he was excellent in the first half against Arsenal when he gave William Saliba a torrid time. Wolves\u00a0will make it tight, but I believe Chelsea can get the win.<\/p>\n<p>Prediction:\u00a0Wolves 1-3 Chelsea<\/p>\n<p>Liam Rosenior faces tough March<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s vital the Blues get as many points as possible on the board in this favourable run, because they face a very difficult March.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>More Stories \/ Latest News<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe\u201d \u2013 Paul Merson gives his prediction for Wolves vs Chelsea<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chelsea.news\/2026\/02\/paul-merson-wolves-chelsea-prediction\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:6th Feb 2026, 08:15am;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> 6th Feb 2026, 08:15am<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Liam Rosenior reveals three \u201cintangibles\u201d he thinks make a \u201cbig difference to the success of a football club\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chelsea.news\/2026\/02\/liam-rosenior-chelsea-progress\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:6th Feb 2026, 07:45am;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> 6th Feb 2026, 07:45am<\/a><\/p>\n<p>New Chelsea addition spotted in training for the first time ahead of Wolves game<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chelsea.news\/2026\/02\/new-chelsea-addition-spotted-in-training-for-the-first-time-ahead-of-wolves-game\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:6th Feb 2026, 07:30am;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> 6th Feb 2026, 07:30am<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next month kicks off with back to back away games against Arsenal and Aston Villa, whilst they host Newcastle and also travel to Everton.<\/p>\n<p>It feels like next month will be the real test for Rosenior to see what both he and his team are really made of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea travel to Wolves on Saturday afternoon in the Premier League, and Paul Merson has given his prediction&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[498,18890,26261,49,48,562,44357,45009,15870,6988,17727,2680,109670,57430,68840,574,95146,561,82,54322,13714],"class_list":["post-457291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-arsenal","tag-aston-villa","tag-burnley","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chelsea","tag-everton","tag-jamie-gittens","tag-joao-pedro","tag-leeds","tag-liam-rosenior","tag-manchester-united","tag-paul-merson","tag-pedro-neto","tag-prediction","tag-premier-league","tag-reece-james","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-william-saliba","tag-wolves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}