With a win that will likely be remembered eternally, 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 remaining in opposition to Manchester Metropolis. And given how we bottled the EFL Cup remaining in opposition to Liverpool, even beating Metropolis received’t persuade us that we’re near a trophy there.
Extra essential is our league kind, with issues getting extremely tight within the Premier League table.
Should you’re going to be live football betting on our remaining 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 modifications the image quickly. We’ve a recreation in hand on most of these groups, and a pair of video games in hand on others.
Our fixtures additionally make issues hard to predict – Sheffield United and Everton at house ought to be comfy wins. However then Arsenal, Aston Villa and Tottenham consecutively seems to be nasty.
Then again, we’ve usually performed higher in our video games in opposition to the massive groups to this point this season. We’re so unpredictable when it comes to efficiency and outcomes that we really feel as more likely to drop factors in opposition to the unhealthy groups are we’re to choose up outcomes in opposition to good groups.
After all there’s no level trying backwards now, nevertheless it does make these insanely irritating dropped factors of every week in the past in opposition to Burnley harm much more. If we preserve 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 simple win over Sheffield United tomorrow. Not like final season, the place this remaining run of video games was an agonising, interminable and pointless trudge to the end line, this marketing campaign seems to be like it is going to have one thing on the road all the way in which to the end.
It might not be the title race we have been all hoping for, nevertheless it’s an advance on final 12 months, and we will solely hope we construct on it once more in subsequent season. First comes a vital and distinctive summer season although, and earlier than that this run wherein decides loads about which gamers will likely be accessible to us.
