Chelsea’s dire season continued as Frank Lampard picked up the third defeat of his interim reign with a 2-1 loss to Brighton on Saturday afternoon at Stamford Bridge.
An early Conor Gallagher goal looked to have set up Blues supporters up for a good afternoon but Danny Welbeck’s equaliser before half time and Julio Enciso’s screamer from distance gave the Seagulls a deserved victory.
Unfortunately for Chelsea fans, the games continue to come thick and fast. Here’s who they’ve got coming up in the next month or so.
Now this would be something. If this particular iteration of Chelsea manage to get into the Champions League semi-finals after losing 2-0 to Real Madrid in the first leg, we may as well all pack up and go home.
It would certainly be one of their most famous nights in Europe but unfortunately for the fans it just seems like an impossible situation. Real Madrid have a way of getting over the line in the Champions League and the most likely outcome is a calm display from Carlo Ancelotti’s side that ends with them heading into another semi-final.
The tough games just keep coming for Chelsea and Lampard this season which is why it is so important for him to work out who he wants in each starting XI position early.
It must be a very daunting task to have so many players to choose from, but he may need to get ruthless as the chopping and changing didn’t work for Graham Potter and it almost certainly won’t work for Lampard.
Brentford will absolutely back themselves to get a result at Stamford Bridge even as the away team. They are well-drilled and work hard for 90 minutes, something that cannot be said for Chelsea right now.
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In what is arguably the toughest game you can play in the Premier League right now, there will be a lot of Chelsea fans getting very swept away with the idea that they can scupper Arsenal’s Premier League title challenge with a result at the Emirates.
While weirder things have happened in football, the idea of Chelsea turning enough of a corner in a handful of tough games that they could then beat Arsenal at the Emirates seems fanciful at this stage.
Big games can bring big performances, but Chelsea won’t have gone to the Emirates as underdogs to this extent for a very long time.
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