Chelsea take on Real Madrid, the England women’s team play a World Cup warm-up match and Marcus Edwards may wish to serve another reminder of who he is...
Chelsea take on Real Madrid, the England women’s team play a World Cup warm-up match and Marcus Edwards may wish to serve another reminder of who he is.The history of Chelsea in the Champions League invites us to suspend our disbelief. At the end of a patchy 2011/12 season in which they finished sixth in the Premier League table, five points adrift of fourth-placed Spurs, they lifted the European Cup for the first time under the somewhat surprising managerial presence of Roberto Di Matteo.
Their first game under Frank Lampard didn’t suggest that a substantial wind of change is blowing through Stamford Bridge. They managed one unthreatening shot on target all afternoon at Molineux against Wolves, continuing a theme that has been ongoing all season of struggling in front of goal. Only Kai Havertz and Raheem Sterling have scored more than three goals for them this season much money on new players.
In European competition, they passed serenely through the group stage, winning their first five matches with no less than 20 goals scored, and only losing their 100% record in their final group match against Liverpool in their final game, with qualification already long assured. In the first knockout round they eased past Eintracht Frankfurt with an extremely comfortable 5-0 aggregate win.
The question that will define the rest of their season is that of whether they can hold off the obvious wear and tear of a season during which they’ve been battling on so many fronts. This will be their 50th game of the campaign, and with an FA Cup semi-final against Brighton coming up and the chase still on to snatch one of those precious top four Premier League places, they’ve still got a lot to play for, even with the EFL Cup already safely delivered to Old Trafford.
In the league, meanwhile, they’ve stalled completely and sit 13th in La Liga, with their hopes of European qualification for next season already entirely dependent upon their progress in the Europa League, having also been knocked out of the Copa del Rey at the quarter-final stages by Osasuna.
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