[Young_blue]

Personally, I do feel when the season reaches February, weed will be separated from grass, and experience will come into play. Apart from Arsenal, City, and Liverpool, none of the other teams that are mentioned in the title have that experience in playing with the pressure. Squad size sometimes does matter, yes, but that is not the deciding factor. Just look at previous title winners; aside from City, none had squad depth. Whoever keeps their best players fit and on the pitch will have the advantage; that is so far Liverpool, in my opinion. Definitely, I would take a top-4 position right now and use that to motivate the younger players; we have to start a title charge next time. But this season? I will be surprised if we are anywhere near the title in the title race come March. Our keeper is the worst in the top 7, and our defence can’t defend; we have to outscore teams to win every match. Imagine we had only 3 clean sheets in the whole season. Someone has to look me in the eye and tell me if Sanchez can be in the title race with Allison and Raya.

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Threeps,

We are not fooling anyone, mate; that is simply an honest opinion. Yesterday’s game highlighted why we cannot be considered as title challengers yet. People can point to our second eleven or so, but you need the team to gel, also not forgetting that Maresca is only at Chelsea for 5 months, and he inherited a team in crisis. If we look back at the posts of the posters who are now posting on ‘Chelsea is in the title race‘ what they posted about Chelsea in early August, you will hardly find anyone who fancied Chelsea to be in the top 8, let alone in the title race. Even pundits like J.Carragher, G. Neville, A. Shearer, and I. Wright had to change their predictions of Chelsea.

Maresca has surprised many people, including myself. The way he handled our crisis in early August is impressive and deserves credit. He has created two teams out of a club that was in total mess. Remember when we sacked Pochottino, which many quartets myself included didn’t agree with but now look to be the right decision. Everyone tipped Chelsea to struggle to finish in the top 10. Based on the circumstances raised above, I don’t see how Chelsea could sustain a title charge. Despite our numbers, we have limited quality; take Palmer, Caicedo, and Colwill out of that team, and we will struggle to finish in the top 6.

Compared to our alledged rivals for the title, who have a settled squad that has won this league before and who knows how to handle the pressure, getting a manager is 25% of the task. Liverpool have a settled squad who are winners; players like VVD, Salah, Allison, TTA, and Robertson will be an invaluable asset for Liverpool, despite them hiring a new manager last summer, and that is why you see their team growing. Arsenal has a manager and a team that has been together for the last 4 years; aside from their quality, their manager/coach is settled. I really can’t see how Chelsea can beat that to win this title. The objective is to stay together for a period, instill Maresca’s style of play, especially playing from the back, fight for the top 4, sharpen the skills of these young players, and then mount a title challenge.

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It’s never a three-horse race and never was. It was a three-horse race if you included the champions who are having their worst season in recent time. But now it’s a two-horse race between the North London kings and Mersyside warriors. Anything other than that is just a media narrative. After that, who follows them in the top 4? yes we can feature that conversation.

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London’s best team keeps getting better and better. I envy this team!

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If I were a Liverpool fan, I would rather play Arsenal now than in the final. Right now, Liverpool are stronger than Arsenal, and Arsenal are struggling for goals, and with the defence of Liverpool being decent, then I think Liverpool would fancy their chances of beating them.

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I think Rashford could have been useful on games like this. He has pace and can score goals on his day. also curious to know why Onana didn’t play?

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Well, I have to say Amorim is up to the task; at least this United team has some spirit and fight back in them, and you have to credit that to the arrival of Amorim. He is already developing his own trusted players. Amad is one of them, and with the experience of Bruno, I think Amorim should play two strikers up top. that will teams a food for thought. Zirkzee and Hojllund up top, supported by Bruno int the no 10 will be handy for any opposition defence.

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3-2 game on! Come on United, you can do it please.

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Come on, United; it’s only 2 remaining. I hope this will be the start of some come back.

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It was an important win, but it nearly gave me a heart attack. I don’t know why we put ourselves in these nerve-wracking moments. Our concentration, especially in the defensive area, needs to be there in the 90 minutes. Colwill was excellent today, but only switched off once, and we were punished. Tosin was flawless today and deserved the player of the match award; I don’t know who was given, and Caicedo? This guy has proven his critics wrong; he is as important to our system as Palmer is. Fernandez also came from a long way; another assist for him today will do no harm to his confidence; he is putting a captain’s performance. Also, Cucurella was excellent throughout the match; I don’t know why he was sent off; I hope Maresca will have a word with him. Now he misses the Everton match unless we appeal. This is probably one of his best games, and he ended up being sent off? We have seen the good, the bad, and the ugly Cucurella.

Big goal for Jackson; he desperately wanted to score today, and thankfully he has scored. 9 goals and 3 assists for this season, he is in good shape. Sancho should have scored, but his all-round performance was good. Teams are now targeting Palmer instead of pressing Chelsea, and that is playing into our hands. Long may it continue.

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We are not looking that far. We have already stated that we are not in the title race this season. Most of our competitors for the top 4, except Villa, have won on Saturday and Sunday. I’m not getting carried away.

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So far so good, we are 1-0 up, but we cannot rest. Cincentration will be veey importamt. I don’t like Jackson’s link up play tonight, he seems to be losing a lot of duels. Our defence is looking composed, and that uas to do wifh our relentless pressinv. We should go and get thesecons game. Bring Lavia on at some point to tighten the midfield. Also bring Nkunku early.

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Incredible how eveey Chelsea fan is asked to admit that Chelssa is in fhe title race, but to their credit every one says no we are not in it. This has become the million dollar question after our recent game against spurs. But are we in it? No, why because i see our case as more like finding ourselves in the right place at the right time.

We have too much limitations as of now to be considered a real title challengers. Our goal keeping situation is still dire, our defense needs Van Dijk or Saliba like leader, unless we sort these two key areas, we cannot be considered serious title challengers.

The number of points that Allison and Raya saves win for their teams is the same as the number of points ww lose due to Sanchez errors, similarly ghw points won by VVD and Saliba defending or scoring is inceridible. That is why Maresca and every Chelsea fan is saying we are not in the title race now.

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Aeteta newds to dip into the transfer markwt and get a prolific number 9. They are struggling to score goals.

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Liveepool beed a big half time team talk. They can’ t affird to relax.

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Tough game for Liverpool, but not impossible. They can still win it no matter how.

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Chelsea getting Sancho for £25m was an absolute steal, and getting it from a top 4 rival is insane. What was United thinking when they decided to let Sancho join Chelsea, with all those other talented players around him, he had a good chance of rediscovering his best form. This year we have some exciting young English players, like Palmer, Madueke and Sancho. Complemented by the flops, Enzo, Caicedo and Lavia, plus the biggest flop, Jackson.

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Good to you posting again Lucky, i was ghe lonely Chelsea voice here.

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That was a routine win. We gave the an early xmas present in the first 15 minutes. I’m concerned about that.

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As lomg as that is legal and allowed within the laws, i have no problems. We didn’t write the rules.

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