It’s still very much early days in the Premier League season, but after tomorrow’s match with West Ham we will be 5 games into the season, and things will be starting to take shape.
From before the season started, Chelsea were ranked among the teams most likely to make it into the top 4 and a guaranteed Champions League place for next season. That seemed a little far fetched at the time. Yes the Blues have spent an absurd amount on players to try to make sure they get back into the top 4, but they also had a new manager trying to implement a new style and manage his first season in the Premier League, and they had played very poorly in preseason, which made it seem even less likely that a Champions League finish was on the cards.
Last year we only scraped into the Europa Conference League in the final weeks because of the slow start we had – and it looked likely we would go through a similar process this time around given the circumstances.
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With 4 games played we sit 8th – but a win tomorrow against a struggling West Ham team puts us right back into the mix at the top, and the fact we follow that with games against Brighton and Nottingham Forest mean that
These things are as much about the competition as your own team too – Man City, Arsenal, Newcastle and Aston Villa will all be our rivals for European football this year, and they all already have more points on the board.
But the season has a long way to go, and if we can make it through this softer run of 3 games with 3 wins we will find ourselves right up there in the upper echelons of the table with the first 25% of it behind us. That would represent a much better start than the one we had a year ago, and would hopefully set us up for a much better run at reaching our goals for the season.
But let’s not get ahead of course – tomorrow will be a tough game, as will the matches against Brighton and Nottingham Forest. After that? Well, that’s where things get really serious.