Chelsea perform traditionally well in the FA Cup and the team will certainly pursue this trophy, which have won 4 times in the last 5 years. Stoke on the other hand should enter this meeting with enviable confidence after the team achieved an impressive victory over Chelsea with 3-2 this season in the Premier League.
The statistics is entirely in favor of the hosts, who have lost just once in their last 31 games of the FA Cup. Certainly, this is an important trophy for Londoners and they should not approach lightly on this game, as some other teams of the Premier League. Furthermore, Chelsea have won their last 6 home matches against Stoke City and it seems that they will record another success over that opponent.
Stoke often concedes a lot of goals in their away games and overall in the season the team perform really poorly in the visits. Bearing in mind that Chelsea have only one home loss so far, the chances of Stoke for a win here do not look good. However, in this tournament, we often witness some big surprises and we should completely rule out Stoke.