The season is almost over, but there’s still tons to play for for Chelsea in the next two months.
In the Premier League, the Blues are clinging in the race for 5th place, with some seriously tough games against the teams around them. Betting on whether Liam Rosenior can lead this group back into the Champions League would be as thrilling as hitting the roulette table at a casino like casinobossy right now – nobody knows what twists and turns there will be in the next few weeks.
After playing Man City this weekend, we then have Man U, then a Brighton team who just beat Liverpool. We face the Reds ourselves a few weeks later, in a game which could end up deciding which team nicks 5th place and the final Champions League spot.
We shouldn’t get too confident about that either, however. We’re in terrible league form and Liverpool look just as bad. Instead of looking up at the Reds and Aston Villa above us, we should also be very worried about the teams behind us. Brentford and Everton are just two points behind us, and Fulham four. That’s not much ground to make up given the tough fixtures we face.
It would be crazy if both Liverpool and Chelsea miss out on 5th and one of those three teams makes it – but right now we absolutely wouldn’t rule it out. Unless this international break and free week dramatically changed our form, we expect every remaining game to be a battle.
Even if the league doesn’t work out, the FA Cup is still on the cards, and now we’re into the semi final has become a real possibility for us. We’re two games at Wembley away from our first domestic trophy since 2018, incredibly. But they won’t be easy. Leeds will be so up for our semi final, and the historic rivalry between the two teams is going to make that an incredibly tough match. We can’t wait for that one.
Even if we do navigate past them, we face an even tougher ask in the final, likely against Man City who have drawn Southampton in the other semi. Pep Guardiola’s team are rounding into form at just the right moment for them, and just the wrong moment for us if we have to face them. We’ve got a dreadful record against them stretching back years now – but anything can happen in a final.
