Chelsea are lastly out of their hardest run of fixtures of the season, and so they’ve come immediately into the Christmas interval, the place even simple video games can change into difficult merely because of the quantity of matches.
The final 10 years or so have seen us come unstuck time and time once more on this interval, so we’re not too hopeful. That’s particularly the case given we have now an infinite rolling damage disaster and a squad which appears to be like a way off competing on the very high of the league.
We’re in tenth place now, the place will we be on 1st of February? It’s very exhausting to say.
In our final recreation we confronted a really totally different problem – an EFL Cup quarter last. We didn’t acquire any league factors in that win, however we constructed some momentum and a few confidence with a house win on penalties over a Newcastle group who schooled us in our recreation in opposition to them at St James’ Park not way back. It was a giant victory for group spirit and now issues are typically wanting a bit brighter. Now, we’ve acquired a comparatively variety Christmas run to try to pressure our approach again up the desk.
When you’re utilizing locations like this web site to guess on Chelsea making a miraculous winter restoration, we reckon that is the time to do it, and right here’s why.
An away recreation in opposition to up and coming Wolves on the twenty fourth isn’t simple by any means, and we’re not taking that recreation in opposition to a rather well drilled and properly motivated Gary O’Neill group as a right. However with the expertise we’ve acquired, certainly we’re aiming for 3 factors there.
The identical is true of our subsequent video games – Crystal Palace at residence on the twenty seventh, which is a should win if we wish to crawl greater into the highest half, as is the match in opposition to Luton after that on the thirtieth. There are not any simple video games, however these are doubtless 3 winnable video games, as is the sport in opposition to Fulham on the thirteenth of January.
By the point we face Liverpool on the ultimate day of January, it’s definitely potential (though extraordinarily hopeful) that we’ve received 4 of 4 and have actually made progress up the league. Maybe it’s simply wishful considering, however with Christopher Nkunku returning this week, we’re permitting ourselves a bit Christmas cheer, and desires of battling our approach right into a Europa Convention League spot by Easter time.
There’s even the prospect of January signings, though we’re nonetheless struggling to make use of final January’s signings, so let’s not get forward of ourselves right here… recreation by recreation and level by level is what we would like.
