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PloKoon13 said:
I see iron-clad causality in that graph: if a team wearing blue is top of the league at Christmas, they are 100% guaranteed to win the title.
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It's the Arsenal fans I feel "sorry" for LOL. 100% failure rate when leading at Xmas !

 
Arsenal win a game they should win and suddenly the media love in has started, THEY WON'T WIN f**k ALL

PS - ABA (anyone but Arsenal)

 
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Deino said:
Silva didn't get injured. It started in Nov. Chilwell got a freak ACL tear against Juve. Late Dec, Lukaku's interview came out, Rudiger and Christensen's contract wasn't properly sorted, we drew Pool, lost against City. In Oct we were top on a 5pt lead over City and a 3pt lead over Pool, by Feb we were 3rd with City having a 16pt lead over us. It's not like we were poor either, we had plenty of wins just a few losses and draws here and there.
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7 points behind Pool who have a game in hand still.

The title race does not involve us this season, what we need to be concerned with is getting ourselves going again and not dropping like a Stone from 2nd to out of the top 4.

We could well be 4th by Monday night and have Newcastle breathing down our necks.

 
All we can do is try and string a run of wins together again and get some pressure back on them. We've badly fluffed our lines though in the last week, just when it looked like it might get interesting ... 

At this point the chasing clubs will all need some sort of Devon Loch event from Liverpool to mount a realistic challenge. Not impossible, but highly unlikely.

Probably need Salah and Van Dijk to miss a few games - that would certainly help !

 
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Win against Ipswich and it's 38 points at the half way mark. 2 per game. 

Id be delighted if we repeated that to hit 76. It would be our highest since we last won the league. 

 
bisright1 said:
Win against Ipswich and it's 38 points at the half way mark. 2 per game. 

Id be delighted if we repeated that to hit 76. It would be our highest since we last won the league. 
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Since the PL went down to 38 games, only once (in 2013/14) has the 4th placed points total exceeded 76 points. The average for 4th place has been 69 points, and for 3rd it has been 74 points. 

If we can hit 76, we'll be in very good shape to get back in the Champions League. 

 
Disappointing few results but not entirely unexpected. If we’d plodded along with a win and a loss here and there rather than putting the run together I’d probably be very happy with 2nd/3rd position right now .

Liverpool will likely win it pulling away but still can’t shake the feeling that there was a bit of a chance this season. 

 
With the the youth of the squad I'm not surprised that we're hitting a bad run. As fun as it is to say we could win the league, most fans will say that a top 4 is the aim and we can look at challenging next season. With that being said, the keeper and striker we have we just arent good enough to be starting for a a team trying to win the league.

 
After the first few games of the season I thought we were likely to have a season of up and down performances what I didn't expect was that to happen deep into the Champions League positions. We've just drawn and lost yet are still nicely placed for potential Champions League Qualification come the end of the season. The media are touting as as title contenders and the snide mocking has all but stopped. It's a young team with still more potential, the squad will likely see some mods but hopefully much less severe than recent windows. Chelsea are back and actually ahead of schedule.

Title contenders? the media think so, it must be true 🙂. Nobody is laughing at us now.

 
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There was always going to be a need for differentiation between being in a title race and being capable of winning the title. The media and rival fans have no motive to bother with such critical thinking, but as a fan base it makes  the next 5 months or so easier to manage.

We are in a title race, simply through league position and difference in points to the leaders. With no context on why or how.

However, we aren’t ready to win the league. Every sane Chelsea fan knows that, we have serious deficiencies in our starting 11, we have a young squad, a new manager and owners prone to throwing grenades into situations.

You never want to lose. But today’s result will have done a good job and lowering our stock in the outside world. Hopefully we can go back to quietly getting on with our business and focus on securing CL for next season. 

 
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Sexyfootball said:
All we can do is try and string a run of wins together again and get some pressure back on them. We've badly fluffed our lines though in the last week, just when it looked like it might get interesting ... 

At this point the chasing clubs will all need some sort of Devon Loch event from Liverpool to mount a realistic challenge. Not impossible, but highly unlikely.

Probably need Salah and Van Dijk to miss a few games - that would certainly help !
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We needed to be near perfect, and with this young group it was always going to be asking a lot of.

We need to fix ourselves though, nevermind the title, we have clubs on good runs behind us looking to drop us out of the top 4.

That would be something I don't think Maresca survives to be honest, 2nd at Christmas and not in the top 4 come seasons end.

Am also concerned with his handling of Noni, is giving me ETH and Sancho vibes.

 
axman2526 said:
We needed to be near perfect, and with this young group it was always going to be asking a lot of.

We need to fix ourselves though, nevermind the title, we have clubs on good runs behind us looking to drop us out of the top 4.

That would be something I don't think Maresca survives to be honest, 2nd at Christmas and not in the top 4 come seasons end.

Am also concerned with his handling of Noni, is giving me ETH and Sancho vibes.
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I wouldn't be concerned. We have Estaveo coming in, Noni was always likely to be shipped out next year. 

 
To challenge for the league, we also need to improve at home a lot.

I don't what this anomaly is but we are the best away side along with Liverpool but we have 7 less points compared to them from home games.

The same thing happened with Pochettino last season, we were better away than home and I can't explain why it is happenning.

 
Ledgerson said:
To challenge for the league, we also need to improve at home a lot.

I don't what this anomaly is but we are the best away side along with Liverpool but we have 7 less points compared to them from home games.

The same thing happened with Pochettino last season, we were better away than home and I can't explain why it is happenning.
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Teams are more likely to sit back and defend when playing at the bridge. We struggle to break them down. 

 
Ledgerson said:
To challenge for the league, we also need to improve at home a lot.

I don't what this anomaly is but we are the best away side along with Liverpool but we have 7 less points compared to them from home games.

The same thing happened with Pochettino last season, we were better away than home and I can't explain why it is happening.
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We started off crap at home last season, but second half of the season we were going like a train, with Wolves at home the only further reversal after we lost to Brentford in October,

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For some reason, we've lost our ability to score at Stamford Bridge this season, possibly because Palmer is playing in the congested centre and being double-teamed, and the other forwards aren't stepping up to compensate ? 

 
IF we are still within 6 points of Liverpool with ten games to go, were in a title race. Liverpool will fall apart without Salah and there's not too much special about them. 

I think City will rediscover form and Arsenal just have a more experienced squad for a run in. 

If we finish top four this season, well done to the players and manager. Outside the top four and Im sure the board will revist the manager and players at the club. 

Either way, after dropping 1 billion notes, we really should be top four. 

 
bluetrooper said:
IF we are still within 6 points of Liverpool with ten games to go, were in a title race. Liverpool will fall apart without Salah and there's not too much special about them. 

I think City will rediscover form and Arsenal just have a more experienced squad for a run in. 

If we finish top four this season, well done to the players and manager. Outside the top four and Im sure the board will revist the manager and players at the club. 

Either way, after dropping 1 billion notes, we really should be top four. 
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Salah is a freak. Never injured, so they don't have to worry, and should give him what he wants to stay. 

 
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