Christmas is simply across the nook, and a few good customers shall be FC25 accounts on the market already, however what Chelsea followers will really need of their stocking are some good outcomes from their soccer group.
The Blues have a poor file over the past 10 years in terms of this time of yr. The truth is each time we’ve managed to keep away from struggling by way of late November and December, we’ve often ended up profitable the title, or coming near it.
This yr, a run of robust video games by way of October and the primary a part of November appears to have cleared out calendar out a bit, and there are some winnable fixtures on the horizon.
Not solely that, however we’re in a extremely good harm state of affairs proper now, with no senior gamers out. That, mixed with the strict A group, B group coverage being employed between the cups and the league by Enzo Maresca signifies that his first XI are coming into the festive interval as match, as contemporary, as accessible and as in-form as any Blues group we are able to bear in mind in years.
There’s competitors for locations, however a superb temper total on the coaching floor too.
If any group was going to snap the unhealthy streak of outcomes right now of yr, it will be this one. So who is definitely on the agenda between now and the New Yr?
Properly you couldn’t get extra of a gift than Leicester to start out with, subsequent weekend. An early kick off after a world break is all the time a bit little bit of a curve ball, however we must always see it off fairly simply. That and the Southampton sport 10 days later ought to be 6 factors, however the Aston Villa and Spurs video games in between shall be quite a bit more durable.
Having mentioned that, neither of them are in nice type proper now. It’s a superb time to play them each, comparatively talking.
After that it’s a gradual mid-table run by way of the remainder of 2024. Brentford, Everton, Fulham on Boxing Day, Ipswich on New Yr’s Eve. All winnable, though the hectic calendar at the moment of yr all the time makes issues extra difficult.
There actually is the prospect to choose up an entire chunk of factors to cement us within the high 4. The truth is, win the vast majority of them and we’ll in all probability be fairly near high spot within the league, if somebody can nick some factors off Liverpool elsewhere throughout this era.
