damjan193 » Sat Sep 19, 2020 10:33 pm wrote:It's a good period to be playing Chelsea away; no crowd, a few of their key players are out injured and their new team isn't really gelled yet. Because of these things, I think we have a good chance of winning this one,
which is one of the most important games of the season IMO. Won't be easy though and we still must bring our A game to win. If we repeat the performance from last week against Leeds, we'll drop 3 points here.
100% agree. As I have said many times imo these first 8 weeks will pretty much define our season, if we are still in touch with the leaders in mid November then we will have a great chance of defending our title, if there is a significant gap though then I think we could struggle, as City found out last year it’s very difficult to play catch up.
As you rightly point out this will still be a difficult game, one in which we will have to bring our A game but because of the factors you listed we won’t get a better chance, in fact I’d add another one, I think their keeper is going through a confidence crisis as well, we need to make sure we get plenty of shots on target because that lad is liable to let anything in atm, even a bobbler.
Because of the signings they’ve made there’s a pretty big feelgood factor surrounding Chelsea atm, this is a great opportunity for us to beat them on their own patch and sow some seeds of doubt. Missing players or not when you’ve spent the type of money they have last thing you want is for one of your rivals to rock up and embarrass you in your own back yard.
A good win here could set up our entire season, especially if our defence play well in the process (give them a confidence boost etc).