Premier League Prediction Thread 2023/2024

[Plaguedeath]

Excluding the premier league, Brighton have been bad in every other competition that they have played, the Europa and now the Carabao. Brighton very good chances to score, two gifted to them by the Chelsea goalkeeper, but Brighton still could not take the lead until Jackson's goal. Had Brighton scored first, Chelsea would have been unable to equalize. It was a good result for Chelsea, but they still need to win their next premier league game, this is the competition were they have made their supporters the most frustrating with their position on the table still looking like they will be going down more.

Maybe Brighton is like Real Madrid in Champions League or Sevilla in Europa League where they turn strong in specific league?

Brighton had a bad results against Aston Villa, they only won once time from 11 matches. But considering how good is Brighton in this season, I think they will able to beat Aston Villa in their own home.

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[budi691]

One win doesn't mean anything, but I agree it can help the team have more confidence. Chelsea really has to improve after spending a lot of money on it, but in my opinion Pochettino's task is very difficult in the midst of a crisis of confidence among his players. The team's form is still very difficult to hope for but maybe Pochettino still has hope and time to improve it.

The match against Fulham will probably be another benchmark for Chelsea this season and of course Chelsea must win it and avoid losing points. Every win will help the team gain good confidence, I agree Chelsea should try in the next match.

Mauricio Pochettino is out to scout the best performance of Chelsea, atleast he's job is not longer on the line. You're right, one win doesn't really matter in this case, perhaps the team needs all the necessary aides they could be able to lay hands on, and confidence is another thing that will boost the club's performance. Eliminating Brighton from the Carabao Cup, brilliant start for the blues, Jackson scoring the winning goal that made the difference. Chelsea have Fulham this weekend in EPL, I hoped they will be able to force their breakthrough by to winning games just as Liverpool and Arsenal.

Agree that Chelsea's victory could increase the team's confidence and provide a positive boost to its performance. Getting Brighton out of the Carabao Cup is a great achievement and could be a great start for Chelsea and Mauricio Pochettino,
In the next match against Fulham in (EPL), Chelsea has the opportunity to build positive momentum, and I think they must be able to win this match, to be able to increase the confidence of the players and coaches, because I believe Chelsea and Mauricio Pochettino just need time to recover. his success. club

[ancafe]

Mauricio Pochettino should be relieved from his duties as headcoach before things starts blowing out of proportion, we know how crucial and important the growth of Chelsea is to everyone. Watching these new players having no single positive contributions to the team have really spelt out the dangerous the complaints of the fans, everyone wants what's best for the club. Chelsea at their worst form, the supporters clearly understands that, Todd Boehly have made the significant signings he thought would be better for the club, but things doesn't change, only reluctant results.

There comes a time when management has to make a decision to fire the coach and currently Mauricio Pochettino's condition is under great pressure because he is unable to make a significant difference from the previous coach. Even though Todd Boehly has spent a lot of money looking for the players he needs, unfortunately Mauricio Pochettino has not been able to make the dreams of the club owner and Chelsea fans come true.

Next week they will face Fulham and this should be a revival point for Chelsea to get out of a series of negative results in every match they have played. If Mauricio Pochettino is unable to produce positive results in the next few matches, then Chelsea's position in the standings will deteriorate even further and will make his position vulnerable to dismissal.

[Joca97]

Chelsea 1 - 0 Brighton
Jackson has a goal now but let's see if they can win this game.

The match was very interesting  though at first I never new Chelsea will won the match considering how inform Brighton is but that's the game of football you hardly predict what the outcome will be, I can see that Chelsea team is slowly coming back let's see how there next will look like

Chelsea finally won against someone and against Brighton that is better and better each season. Maybe with this win Chelsea will wake up finally in the premier league and start making good results. Was expecting that Brighton wins against Chelsea but it looks like Brighton is only good in the premier league.

[skarais]

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I can't conclude anything from their recent performance but what is certain is that I am happy to see Manchester United returning to its positive trend and also hope that this can be consistent.
And it must be admitted that the wins achieved in the last few matches can have quite a big impact on improving the team's mentality and self-confidence, so this is momentum for the Manchester United team to improve to be better even though it is currently in a positive trend so that this team can be much stronger. .

To expect the team to become stronger and more competitive, there are several conditions that the team must fulfill. Some of them are experienced coaches and have good skills, they have good players to defend, they also have to have quality midfielders and have strikers who have abilities above the average of other strikers.

I don't see that Manchester United has fulfilled everything, but this team can still develop much better and manage it gradually. Ten Hag must have a good plan to restore Manchester United's performance, but it is not an easy job considering that other teams also have similar plans. But I might agree that Manchester United is still better than Chelsea, but they are still equally bad compared to Liverpool and Arsenal especially this early in the season.

[wmaurik]

Chelsea 1 - 0 Brighton
Jackson has a goal now but let's see if they can win this game.

The match was very interesting  though at first I never new Chelsea will won the match considering how inform Brighton is but that's the game of football you hardly predict what the outcome will be, I can see that Chelsea team is slowly coming back let's see how there next will look like

Winning narrowly in the EFL Cup Round 3 when they hosted Brighton was not a revival for Chelsea because in the Premier League Chelsea were still suffering a lot in finding victory in the match. And we will see how Chelsea play at home to Fulham later because in general Fulham have not been very good at the start of this season so their match in the near future might be fierce because Fulham will definitely try to win in front of their own supporters and Chelsea is also starting to have motivation to get a win there after being able to win in the EFL Cup Round 3 over Brighton.

[nara1892]

This is what they have been craving for a straightforward win Gernacho and Casemiro scored goals to settle any nerves following this testing period and Anthony added another with this recent performance united is not out of the wood yet but this victory will help with ambrabat making a full debut as an inverted full-back, Mason mount which had also returned from injury and a site of harry maguire back in red shirt and looking commanding in United backline. United are never from a storm but it has been a positive few days after defeating Burnley

I can't conclude anything from their recent performance but what is certain is that I am happy to see Manchester United returning to its positive trend and also hope that this can be consistent.
And it must be admitted that the wins achieved in the last few matches can have quite a big impact on improving the team's mentality and self-confidence, so this is momentum for the Manchester United team to improve to be better even though it is currently in a positive trend so that this team can be much stronger. .

After all, I personally think that Manchester United indeed has a great chance to recover after playing in the Champions League against Bayern Munich. Indeed, in that match Manchester United lost, but because Manchester United also managed to make three goal in that match. So of course, the defeat suffered by Manchester United in the Champions League against Bayern Munich is also not a bad result in my judgment. So yes, it is not surprising that Manchester United managed to get another victory in the match against Burnley for the Premier League match. Also, after that, Manchester United won again in the EFL Cup against Crystal Palace, and Manchester United managed to win with clean sheets too.

That is quite reasonable, as you said and from what I have seen in yesterday's Champions League match against Bayern Munich, Manchester United there managed to give a performance that I thought was quite good, they were able to win three goals until the end of the match, although well the victory is still in Bayern Munich with 4 goals ahead of Ten Hag's squad. Honestly I would not say that this is still a bad result for the Red Devils, but in my opinion this is enough to show their improvement that it is very possible that Manchester United will be able to rise again in the Premier League.

With some of the wins they have managed to get at the end of this season as you mentioned, I think it is indeed very possible that Ten Hag's squad will bounce back from the bad performance that slowly made them slump and fall to the bottom. Nothing is impossible, the season is still quite long and I hope they will continue to maintain this kind of performance to move back up in the race.

[Iranus]

Chelsea 1 - 0 Brighton
Jackson has a goal now but let's see if they can win this game.

The match was very interesting  though at first I never new Chelsea will won the match considering how inform Brighton is but that's the game of football you hardly predict what the outcome will be, I can see that Chelsea team is slowly coming back let's see how there next will look like

Chelsea finally won against someone and against Brighton that is better and better each season. Maybe with this win Chelsea will wake up finally in the premier league and start making good results. Was expecting that Brighton wins against Chelsea but it looks like Brighton is only good in the premier league.

Chelsea won against big teams like Brighton. Chelsea secured a narrow 1-0 win. Even though Chelsea won this match, I don't think their performance improved much. Chelsea's performance is still quite weak. Even in this match, Chelsea could not dominate the match. However, a win against Brighton will probably boost the confidence of the Chelsea players. If the players are confident then maybe we will see better performances from Chelsea players in the coming matches. However, the bond between Chelsea players is not strong. This is the reason why despite having a lot of talented players in the team, their performance is poor. It will be challenging for Chelsea to get full points in the away match against Fulham.

[bangjoe]

Excluding the premier league, Brighton have been bad in every other competition that they have played, the Europa and now the Carabao. Brighton very good chances to score, two gifted to them by the Chelsea goalkeeper, but Brighton still could not take the lead until Jackson's goal. Had Brighton scored first, Chelsea would have been unable to equalize. It was a good result for Chelsea, but they still need to win their next premier league game, this is the competition were they have made their supporters the most frustrating with their position on the table still looking like they will be going down more.

Maybe Brighton is like Real Madrid in Champions League or Sevilla in Europa League where they turn strong in specific league?

Brighton had a bad results against Aston Villa, they only won once time from 11 matches. But considering how good is Brighton in this season, I think they will able to beat Aston Villa in their own home.

It seems yes, they prefer to focus on certain leagues as their main goal to achieve the best position, and I think it was also done by the two teams that you mentioned above, and the strategy in my opinion is far better than focusing all energy for all League but they don't get any results at the end of the season.

But Aston Villa is also not bad at the beginning of the season, although they have a long distance far in the standings I personally predict that Aston Villa can win the match against Brighton at their meeting this time, considering the results of their head to head meetings so far, But this time Brighton might have the opportunity to change that history this week.

[Jody.Drummer]

Chelsea 1 - 0 Brighton
Jackson has a goal now but let's see if they can win this game.

The match was very interesting  though at first I never new Chelsea will won the match considering how inform Brighton is but that's the game of football you hardly predict what the outcome will be, I can see that Chelsea team is slowly coming back let's see how there next will look like

Chelsea finally won against someone and against Brighton that is better and better each season. Maybe with this win Chelsea will wake up finally in the premier league and start making good results. Was expecting that Brighton wins against Chelsea but it looks like Brighton is only good in the premier league.

Chelsea won against big teams like Brighton. Chelsea secured a narrow 1-0 win. Even though Chelsea won this match, I don't think their performance improved much. Chelsea's performance is still quite weak. Even in this match, Chelsea could not dominate the match. However, a win against Brighton will probably boost the confidence of the Chelsea players. If the players are confident then maybe we will see better performances from Chelsea players in the coming matches. However, the bond between Chelsea players is not strong. This is the reason why despite having a lot of talented players in the team, their performance is poor. It will be challenging for Chelsea to get full points in the away match against Fulham.

Won, but they didn't show much change in terms of play, I agree with that. But indeed this victory can boost their mentality to be able to play even better in the upcoming matches. But they also shouldn't forget that they still have a lot of work to do. They shouldn't over-celebrate this victory, because even in terms of the game they are not better than Brighton, or they play like before.
Now they must focus more on the Premier League, because there they need a change of game. And this victory can be used as motivation for them.

[marcous]

To expect the team to become stronger and more competitive, there are several conditions that the team must fulfill. Some of them are experienced coaches and have good skills, they have good players to defend, they also have to have quality midfielders and have strikers who have abilities above the average of other strikers.

I don't see that Manchester United has fulfilled everything, but this team can still develop much better and manage it gradually. Ten Hag must have a good plan to restore Manchester United's performance, but it is not an easy job considering that other teams also have similar plans. But I might agree that Manchester United is still better than Chelsea, but they are still equally bad compared to Liverpool and Arsenal especially this early in the season.

Almost everyone would agree that Man United and Chelsea started the campaign badly, and so far United is slightly better than Chelsea. I think the performance of these two clubs will improve in the second half of the season, but I am not sure that The Red Devils and The Blues can finish in the Champions League zone. Factors involving player injuries and the slow adaptation process have meant that Ten Hag and Pochettino's squad has not consistently won. I think Liverpool is more promising than Arsenal, after seeing their performance in the past six weeks.

On the other hand, Man City is a club that is unbeaten in the EPL this season, but surprisingly Newcastle was able to beat Pep Guardiola squad in the Carabao Cup. Maybe this is because Pep is playing his second squad and saving key players, for the next matches in the EPL and UCL.

[imamusma]

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Mauricio Pochettino is out to scout the best performance of Chelsea, atleast he's job is not longer on the line. You're right, one win doesn't really matter in this case, perhaps the team needs all the necessary aides they could be able to lay hands on, and confidence is another thing that will boost the club's performance. Eliminating Brighton from the Carabao Cup, brilliant start for the blues, Jackson scoring the winning goal that made the difference. Chelsea have Fulham this weekend in EPL, I hoped they will be able to force their breakthrough by to winning games just as Liverpool and Arsenal.

Fulham and Chelsea are basically not much different, it's just that Fulham won 1 more win than Chelsea in their last 6 matches. What differentiates the two teams is only their big names, but Fulham cannot be underestimated against a team like Chelsea. Fulham and Chelsea have both scored 5 goals in their last 6 matches, meaning that in general the quality of the striker is the same in terms of scoring goals. But Fulham is certainly not the favorite in their home match.

Chelsea have a high probability of winning their third away game even though they have failed in their previous two away games against West Ham and Bournemouth. This week Chelsea are favorites following their win against Brighton, but Fulham, who drew in the previous match, will also try to secure points at home. The match is expected to be exciting regardless of the final result, but I have faith in Chelsea in this match.

[Majestic-milf]

Almost everyone would agree that Man United and Chelsea started the campaign badly, and so far United is slightly better than Chelsea. I think the performance of these two clubs will improve in the second half of the season, but I am not sure that The Red Devils and The Blues can finish in the Champions League zone. Factors involving player injuries and the slow adaptation process have meant that Ten Hag and Pochettino's squad has not consistently won. I think Liverpool is more promising than Arsenal, after seeing their performance in the past six weeks.

Chelsea are just not stable now and it's bad that they've got only one win since the beginning of this season and coming from a club that spent over £1bn trying to bring in fresh players, I expected more from them. Another reason I feel they are unstable is the fact there's to me no old player that can help with experience, just as Real Madrid is. See, I understand what Todd Boehly is trying to do when he signed many young players into the team but selling off most of the experienced ones didn't help at all. Watch the way they play, you'd see there's no much coordination, I feel if there were more old hands, apart from Chilwell, Reece James, maybe those players would easily adapt. Right now what Pochettino needs is to shut out critics and focus on saving not just his team but his job as well. In yesterday's narrow win over Brighton in the Carabao, he was heard saying that the win had put them on a positive start to greatness. Quite a hasty assumption to me and their next game against Fulham will tell.
 

On the other hand, Man City is a club that is unbeaten in the EPL this season, but surprisingly Newcastle was able to beat Pep Guardiola squad in the Carabao Cup. Maybe this is because Pep is playing his second squad and saving key players, for the next matches in the EPL and UCL.

I feel we should cut Guardiola some slack. I mean one's going to get tired of winning too much at some time and if you watched the game, you will see he didn't make use of all his first eleven and even though they put much effort into the game, you could tell that he didn't attach much value to the tournament as he would a Premier League game or say champions league.

[X-ray]

Chelsea 1 - 0 Brighton
Jackson has a goal now but let's see if they can win this game.

The match was very interesting  though at first I never new Chelsea will won the match considering how inform Brighton is but that's the game of football you hardly predict what the outcome will be, I can see that Chelsea team is slowly coming back let's see how there next will look like

Chelsea was starting the match so badly. The blues was not owning the first half and brighton was always getting opportunities to attack the blues. It's so amazing to see chelsea got its win after the club suffered three two losses and 1 draw.
The thing that makes me feel amazing if chelsea was scoring through open play. The club was rarely doing it. Im saying to myself like when I was the last time chelsea scoring the game. Palmer is performing so brilliantly as well as maatsen.
I don't even know why poch was benched those two important players instead of put them all into the starting line up. Palmer was able making good team work with jackson and maatsen.

Pch shall give them all time to play in the main squad. Get rid of sterling out from the club. Connor gallagher was also useless player. All of blues fans are feeling so happy with this result.
Chelsea actually had a decent game management after jackson was scoring the first goal for chelsea. Im disappointed to see how referee was annulling the second goal was it's clearly not off side.

[Swordsoffreedom]

Next time Chelsea are going to play against Fulham in an away game. After getting a critical win against Brighton in the EFL Cup I assume most people will be wondering if there would be another win coming in the Premier League as well. Fulham are also having difficult days recently. Their defense is even worse as they conceded more goals than Chelsea while scoring the same amount.
Chelsea couldn't beat Fulham in their last two head-to-head games in the league. It would be nice to see this streak being broken by Chelsea here. Jackson scored a goal against Brighton so maybe this would make some boost in his self-confidence level to perform much better against Fulham too. I think Chelsea will win by one goal gap.

In fact, if Chelsea can play more comfortably and with more confidence then of course against Fullham it won't be a big problem. It's just that I still doubt whether Chelsea will be able to play their best performance when they face Fullham later. Because you also need to remember that this match will take place at Craven Cottage stadium. And as hosts, Fullham should be the one who will play with more confidence in this match. This season, Fullham has even won 2 times from a total of 6 matches. Meanwhile, Chelsea only has 1 win from a total of 6 matches. So it could be said that Fullham is slightly better. And currently Fullham is also ranked 11th. But Chelsea is currently ranked 14th. But I personally will still favor Chelsea in this match. Because I don't think Chelsea should be in a negative trend. Because this could make Chelsea closer to the relegation zone. And I don't think that's going to happen. So my prediction is also the same, namely that Chelsea will win with a narrow score of 1-0.

Chelsea are not performing in champions league or Europa League this season. Their only aim is to perform well in the Premier League. But the party is failing to do this too. They are performing very badly. And now Chelsea is 14th in the points table. They have won only one out of 6 matches.
I don't think Chelsea's opponents, Fulham, are strong. However, Fulham's performance is better than Chelsea's so far. Fulham have won two matches this season. and shared points with mighty Arsenal. This is why I think Fulham is more favorite than Chelsea. But my guess is that the match is more likely to be a draw. Chelsea's squad situation since unstbale. So maybe they will try to draw the match.

Well, I think what you said makes quite a bit of sense. And if I thought more calmly then maybe I would also come to the same conclusion as you. But just this time I want to bet on something that doesn't even match the analysis. I want to test my luck. Or maybe I can't stand seeing Chelsea keep losing in the Premier League. So I thought it might be different this time. Chelsea have won the match against Brighton in the EFL Cup. Even though in this match Brighton did not appear to be at its best. And Chelsea didn't perform so well either. It's just that Chelsea won it. And in the match against Fullham, I think it's possible that Fullham will put pressure on Chelsea. But I still can't imagine Chelsea will get any closer to the relegation zone than this. But the chances of a draw may be much greater. Because the performance of the two is not much different.

Brighton's performance against chelsea was not good. I'd say brighton didn't try too hard to win the match . I saw a better performance from Brighton in the Premier League than this match. But the performance of Brighton players against Chelsea was quite slow. And that's why Chelsea narrowly won. Chelsea cannot win by a large margin. However, Fulham will do their best to win against Chelsea. This is Fulham's home match. Chelsea have no chance of winning unless they perform well. Especially if Chelsea's attacking performance is poor, they will be defeated. Chelsea's defense is somewhat solid, but their attacking players are very weak. Chelsea have scored only 5 goals in 6 Premier League matches.

[tusandii]

Next time Chelsea are going to play against Fulham in an away game. After getting a critical win against Brighton in the EFL Cup I assume most people will be wondering if there would be another win coming in the Premier League as well. Fulham are also having difficult days recently. Their defense is even worse as they conceded more goals than Chelsea while scoring the same amount.

With facts like this, Chelsea should be able to take advantage of the situation that Fulham is experiencing. However, Chelsea needs to build solid cooperation in this match in order to save its presence in the standings. There is no other choice for coach Pochettino to achieve victory, and if otherwise I believe his position as coach will be increasingly threatened, just like the previous coach who continued to produce bad results had the fate of being fired.

I thought this was just a lucky win for Chelsea because several times Brighton players actually had the chance to score but were thwarted by Robert Sanchez and after that in the second half Chelsea managed to score goal with pride.
Imagine that there 4 opportunities that I counted for Brighton to score goal and if all the opportunities can produce goal, I think Chelsea will lose badly against Brighton with a score of 4 which they failed to use well and I see Pochettino very proud of yesterday match even though it was luck that can be thwarted by the Chelsea goalkeeper.

[topbitcoin]

Chelsea won against big teams like Brighton. Chelsea secured a narrow 1-0 win. Even though Chelsea won this match, I don't think their performance improved much. Chelsea's performance is still quite weak. Even in this match, Chelsea could not dominate the match. However, a win against Brighton will probably boost the confidence of the Chelsea players. If the players are confident then maybe we will see better performances from Chelsea players in the coming matches. However, the bond between Chelsea players is not strong. This is the reason why despite having a lot of talented players in the team, their performance is poor. It will be challenging for Chelsea to get full points in the away match against Fulham.

Chelsea managed to win narrowly against Brighton with the condition that almost all players from Brighton were reserve players and Brighton still controlled the match in this match
But whatever happened Chelsea still won and it was very good for them but when talking about Brighton I think they also implemented an elimination scheme in this case because they realized that if they had too many competitions then indirectly their players would also continue to be in portions so they had to choose which one was the best and indeed the EPL and Europa League would obviously be their first choice and let the EFL go.
Technically I also like the performance they did in this match even though they lost they still played quite well.

[QueenVera]

Chelsea was starting the match so badly. The blues was not owning the first half and brighton was always getting opportunities to attack the blues. It's so amazing to see chelsea got its win after the club suffered three two losses and 1 draw.
The thing that makes me feel amazing if chelsea was scoring through open play. The club was rarely doing it. Im saying to myself like when I was the last time chelsea scoring the game. Palmer is performing so brilliantly as well as maatsen.
I don't even know why poch was benched those two important players instead of put them all into the starting line up. Palmer was able making good team work with jackson and maatsen.

Pch shall give them all time to play in the main squad. Get rid of sterling out from the club. Connor gallagher was also useless player. All of blues fans are feeling so happy with this result.
Chelsea actually had a decent game management after jackson was scoring the first goal for chelsea. Im disappointed to see how referee was annulling the second goal was it's clearly not off side.

  Chelsea have secured another win in the ÈFL Cup after conceding a defeat against Aston Villa in their last Premier league match, they coach would be very impressed with their performance cause they did well against a very tough side in the EPL and everyone expected Chelsea to lose the match based on their poor form in the Epl but they suprisenly won Brighton who's been very tough this season.

 I hope this win would build their confidence to do better in the EPL on Monday against Fulham who are 11th in the table and 3 points ahead of chelsea, Chelsea got a very expensive squad and should be doing better against teams like Fulham but they're not a club to rely on when betting cause they got a poor record in the EPL so far and could draw or lose against Fulham who would be playing with a home advantage.

[strunberg]

Almost everyone would agree that Man United and Chelsea started the campaign badly, and so far United is slightly better than Chelsea. I think the performance of these two clubs will improve in the second half of the season, but I am not sure that The Red Devils and The Blues can finish in the Champions League zone. Factors involving player injuries and the slow adaptation process have meant that Ten Hag and Pochettino's squad has not consistently won. I think Liverpool is more promising than Arsenal, after seeing their performance in the past six weeks.

Pochettino said that victory against Brighton would be a turning point for them to continue this positive trend. However, the problem is that if you look at the match statistics, you can see that Brighton dominated with more than 60% of ball possession. I'm not discussing United because I think everyone agrees at the moment Chelsea are worse than United. In fact I can say that United will at least be able to qualify for the UEFA cup but I don't see Chelsea being able to be in the top 7 this season.

[Furious 7]

Next time Chelsea are going to play against Fulham in an away game. After getting a critical win against Brighton in the EFL Cup I assume most people will be wondering if there would be another win coming in the Premier League as well. Fulham are also having difficult days recently. Their defense is even worse as they conceded more goals than Chelsea while scoring the same amount.

With facts like this, Chelsea should be able to take advantage of the situation that Fulham is experiencing. However, Chelsea needs to build solid cooperation in this match in order to save its presence in the standings. There is no other choice for coach Pochettino to achieve victory, and if otherwise I believe his position as coach will be increasingly threatened, just like the previous coach who continued to produce bad results had the fate of being fired.

This will indeed be a very good spirit for Chelsea but of course they also cannot consider this victory against Brighton to be a big reference because even though they won narrowly, in terms of possession and opportunities Chelsea were actually not better than Brighton.
But even so I think it's very good because it doesn't matter that they lose in possession and opportunities but can maximize attacks rather than with the schemes they always do with full possession which in the end it becomes a failure like some of the matches they do in the EPL.

Against Fulham statistically they must be favored, it's just that seeing the position in the standings they lost to Fulham, especially in this match Fulham will also act as a home team that Chelsea must be wary of.