We’ve reached the November international break, an interesting moment in any season.
A quarter of the Premier League campaign is gone already, meaning we’ve started to get a grasp on who teams are, but there’s still plenty of time left for dramatic changes.
Chelsea had an up and down first eleven games, as they tend to do. So where do we think they’ll be come Christmas, the next major staging post in the season? Todays’ football predictions for the legendary Mighty Tips sees the Blues favoured as very likely to make the top four, and that’s impressive enough in itself.
Their track record as experts in sports predictions has been built over 5 years of good results, and sees them with an average win rate of 55%, with more than ten professional tipsters working together to figure out which way the season will go next. They think Chelsea make the top 4, so on that basis alone, Blues fans should be pretty confident they can at least match last year’s final place in the table. But can Enzo Maresca’s men go one further than that?
It won’t be easy, as Arsenal and Man City already look to be building up a serious head of steam that it will be hard for anyone to match. Those two are exceptionally consistent, and while this year has a lot of middling teams who can beat anyone on their day (perhaps including Chelsea), there don’t seem to be any others who can match the leading pair just in terms of grinding out results.
But Chelsea also look to be improving now they’ve got a more settled team and most of their injured players back. The return of Cole Palmer in the next few weeks brings another wildcard element. He could add the magic spark to this group which turns defeats into draws and draws into wins, and that could really see us at the very least joining the breakaway group of teams pulling clear of the mid-table bunfight.
Teams like Bournemouth and Sunderland have had a brilliant start to the season, but as the games stack up they will tend to revert to the mean, while Chelsea can try to take advantage. Spurs, Man U, Newcastle, Aston Villa, Newcastle – everyone looks flawed and vulnerable this year, and Chelsea only have to be more consistent than their competition to finish above them.
We can’t wait for league action to return so we can see which way this goes next…
