Chelsea’s wobble could go from bad to worse

After a run of fine outcomes via October, Chelsea beat Barcelona 3-0 then managed a draw towards Arsenal, essentially the most in-form workforce in Europe, with simply 10 males.

That was a excessive level, however what’s occurred since has gone the opposite manner. Predicting Chelsea outcomes proper now you get the identical kind of rush as enjoying on-line slots. You don’t know in the event you’ll get a trumping of Barcelona or a feeble defeat to Leeds.

December’s fixtures make issues even more durable to foretell. It’s a misleading run of video games – we don’t face Liverpool or Man Metropolis or any conventional “large 6” sides, but there are some vastly difficult video games in there.

It begins this weekend, with a probably horrible sport towards Everton. David Moyes has them battle prepared and assured, whereas we go into the sport with extraordinarily low confidence after 4 video games and not using a win.

To make issues worse, the Toffees are coming to Stamford Bridge and know they are often pleased with some extent. They’ll set as much as defend and attempt to hit us on the break. In the meantime we’ll must assault and attempt to break them down – one thing we’ve struggled with.

The excellent news is that Cole Palmer shall be again not less than. However even then, he’s solely working his manner again to health, and didn’t look near his greatest in his cameo towards Bournemouth final week.

After the Everton sport we do get one softer sport – towards Cardiff within the EFL Cup. However given we’ll be enjoying our second workforce, that would flip right into a battle too. The match that weekend, away at St James’ Park, appears like a horrible check at a stadium the place now we have dangerous report. Moises Caicedo will be capable to play after his suspension at that time, not less than, and Palmer needs to be nearer to full health.

After that now we have Aston Villa (now forward of us within the desk) and Bournemouth to shut out the month.

It’s actually laborious to be assured a few win in any of these video games. An excellent end result towards Everton on Saturday ought to restore some confidence, but when we fail to beat them and make it 5 and not using a win, our conventional winter spiral shall be nicely and really underway.

There’s no time for doom and gloom although – simply take it sport by sport is one of the best we will do, and we’re positive that’s the message that Enzo Maresca has for his gamers proper now.

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