Chelsea are lastly out of their hardest run of fixtures of the season, they usually’ve come immediately into the Christmas interval, the place even simple video games can turn 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’ve an limitless rolling damage disaster and a squad which seems a way off competing on the very prime of the league.
We’re in tenth place now, the place will we be on 1st of February? It’s very laborious 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 workforce who schooled us in our recreation in opposition to them at St James’ Park not way back. It was a giant victory for workforce spirit and now issues are usually trying slightly brighter. Now, we’ve acquired a comparatively sort Christmas run to attempt to power our manner again up the desk.
For those who’re utilizing locations like this 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 is just not simple by any means, and we’re not taking that recreation in opposition to a rather well drilled and nicely motivated Gary O’Neill workforce as a right. However with the expertise we’ve acquired, absolutely we’re aiming for 3 factors there.
The identical is true of our next games – Crystal Palace at dwelling on the twenty seventh, which is a should win if we wish to crawl increased 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 no doubt 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 attainable (though extraordinarily hopeful) that we’ve gained 4 of 4 and have actually made progress up the league. Maybe it’s simply wishful pondering, however with Christopher Nkunku returning this week, we’re permitting ourselves slightly Christmas cheer, and goals of battling our manner 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.
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