This post isn't strictly about Champions League, but Chelsea's form does directly influence their CL hopes, and their form hasn't been great of late. Or is it really that bad?
Well, this season Chelsea have the highest goal difference, highest goal scorer, have conceded the least amount of goals and have set a record for the longest string of away wins as well as the longest string of away games undefeated. And they are second in the log, certainly not a bad set of results, even if their form has been a little bad of late.
Having said that I do feel sympathetic for them. Besides the fact that they have had a list of injuries the length of Petr Cech's leg, they have a new manager and management team, and new players. Their form has been good, and given a chance I can't see it getting too bad any time soon. For me the thing to remember is this, if a team gets a new player it takes time to adjust to the style of play and if a player comes back from an injury it is similar to getting a new player. In this case the team have a whole bunch of recently fit players [at one state they had 11 injured players in the team] as well as a new management team, so things can't be expected to be all rosey from the word go.
Now I know that Chelsea are in the top ten clubs in the world at the moment, but come on let's give the players and management a chance. There's no point in calling for anyone to be fired at this stage, we've only just passed the half way mark in the season AND Chelsea are still second in the league. So relax a little.
I still stand by my original predictions for winners of various Leagues:
Champions League: Barcelona [with Chelsea doing REALLY well]
UEFA Cup: AC Milan
Premier League: Chelsea [although I think it'll be tight with Liverpool and United]
FA Cup: Liverpool
Carling Cup: Manchester United
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