With a win that might be remembered endlessly, Chelsea snatched 3 factors from nowhere in opposition to Manchester United on Thursday night time and gave a jolt of life again to a season that was about to run out.
With out our league battle, all we have now to play for is a menacing FA Cup semi ultimate in opposition to Manchester Metropolis. And given how we bottled the EFL Cup ultimate in opposition to Liverpool, even beating Metropolis received’t persuade us that we’re near a trophy there.
Extra essential is our league type, with issues getting extremely tight within the Premier League desk.
In case you’re going to be reside soccer betting on our ultimate place this season, you’ve obtained loads to consider. Between sixth positioned Man U (48 pts) and thirteenth positioned Fulham (39 pts) issues are so tight that simply a few wins or losses adjustments the image quickly. We’ve a sport in hand on most of these groups, and a pair of video games in hand on others.
Our fixtures additionally make issues arduous to foretell – Sheffield United and Everton at residence ought to be comfy wins. However then Arsenal, Aston Villa and Tottenham consecutively seems to be nasty.
Then again, we’ve typically performed higher in our video games in opposition to the massive groups up to now this season. We’re so unpredictable by way of efficiency and outcomes that we really feel as more likely to drop factors in opposition to the dangerous groups are we’re to select up outcomes in opposition to good groups.
In fact there’s no level wanting backwards now, however it does make these insanely irritating dropped factors of per week in the past in opposition to Burnley damage much more. If we hold that equaliser out, we’re already on 45 factors, sitting in seventh place.
However what you possibly can’t deny is that we should always have an thrilling finish to the season arising, particularly if we get ourselves into place with a straightforward win over Sheffield United tomorrow. Not like final season, the place this ultimate run of video games was an agonising, interminable and pointless trudge to the end line, this marketing campaign seems to be like it would have one thing on the road all the best way to the end.
It might not be the title race we had been all hoping for, however it’s an advance on final yr, and we are able to solely hope we construct on it once more in subsequent season. First comes an important and distinctive summer season although, and earlier than that this run by which decides loads about which gamers might be accessible to us.
