For the primary time shortly, and I believed this earlier than the Liverpool sport as you’d have learn, I imagine Chelsea will make Champions League soccer this season with three video games to go.
Qualification is now in our fingers once more, and I really suppose that our greater menace to take it away from us at this level is Aston Villa and never Nottingham Forest. I charge Forest, I feel how they play has been good for the gamers they’ve, however I additionally anticipated them to slide on the finish of the season, and so they have carried out precisely that. We play them on the ultimate sport and if it involves a shoot out to qualify for Europe, I’d again us.
I can see how a lot the gamers need this now. I really feel that they really feel it. I see perception there now for the primary time in a very long time.
I’m going to reign it in although, as a result of I do additionally suppose many are getting carried away. Sure, we’ve got received three league video games in a row and the temper is nice, and confidence appears to be excessive. That is nice. However we can not overlook the performances since December and the way general they haven’t been good. I do have this in my thoughts.
However for some purpose, I simply have a sense we are going to qualify for the Champions League now, and I haven’t felt that for some time. Let’s see if the gamers and the supervisor can pull it off – don’t let me down and make me remorse these phrases!
We’ve bought Newcastle away, which might be very powerful, Manchester United at house which we merely need to win as a result of they’re horrible (though I’ve all the time had a niggling damaging feeling about this sport that I can not shake), after which Forest away which is the place I see all of it resting on.
Villa are my burning downside although, one other one which I can’t shake. If we don’t do our job, I feel they may very well be a problem for us. They’ve Bournemouth away, Tottenham at house, and Manchester United away – they may genuinely win all three if they’re on it. Forest, I’m not so involved about.
I simply have this sense that we do it now, and we merely HAVE to do it, for a lot of causes.
