Yes, but if someone had no knowledge of any player before this year and had watched a majority of pl games this year would they think any chelsea player bar willian is good? Has Hazard had a good game this year?

Top six would be a huge achievement for chelsea now. A few more weeks and top half might be.

captain belgium has made a cpl pro-hazard posts in the last few weeks fwiw

Winning every game gives them 84

Chelsea will finish top 6, i still give them a decent chance to finish t4 tbph.

Hazard has been really off the boil this season until a couple of games ago, the game the other day he was looking better and attacking players again.

I don't actually think Willian has been that good fwiw, it's more down to his stupidly good success rate with scoring from free kicks. Which was never going to continue.

feel free to langer me on this one I think all i said is hazard looked like last season's hazard vs norwich and that hazard has been good vs stoke. he def looked better vs norwich and stoke than he did all season anyone who watched the games would agree

The market thinks our chances of winning the title are similar as to Chelsea of finishing in the top 4.

That is preety insane.

Leicester-Chelsea next game week(Monday)

What was the reasoning for betting against Chelsea making the top 4? A sample size of 2 games of Xgoals? Mourinho third season theory?

I want advice from the guru.

If Pool win tomorrow they'll be 11 behind the current top 6 and I don't see them finishing ahead of any of them. 11 is a lot to make up on pool/spurs and Leicester is 17! The math on making up 17 points is just pretty damn tough.

Numbers + eye test. Their defensive numbers were truly putrid and just looked broken, like their chances and shots conceded profile was similar to QPR's last season to give you a comparison. As for WHY this is the case it is tough to say, but no one really has much of an idea aside from some fatigue type theories.

They are just conceding a ton of shots on target in really good positions. They are also allowing a lot of completed passes in dangerous positions. Getting outplayed 11v11 before the red v swansea was kind of a red flag so i tried to just watch them closely and waited to see if the numbers improved. They didn't and I was completely in on them just being bad after the palace game.

Market was hesitant to adjust so I jumped on what I thought was a great spot before the market adjusted. Helped greatly that they ran about 12 points over expectation last year so people were still super bullish on them when in reality there wasn't much between them arsenal and city.

On the flip side I was def a little too bullish on palace as they are running super hot with regards to not conceding. The different models are kinda all over the place with them with riley's SoT based model has them pretty high, but caleys pure shots model has them much lower. Pardew is the goat though and his teams have typically outperformed shot based metrics so that bodes well at least.

I'm pretty bad at IKTS so you can make fun of me for that still!

DECISIONS AGAINST CHELSEA 2015/16

1) says hazard was > ronaldo during 2014/15
2) calls fsw's wife a bad cook
3) signs flacco
4) blames 3-0 loss to city on linesman which leads to pravda match report on chelsea.com
5) alienates womenfolk everywhere
6) swears at mild mannered everton manager after losing to him
7) makes branislav captain
8) beats wenger
9) loses to soton, blames the ref that should've given soton two penalties, gets fined 50k
10) proclaims himself best manager chelsea have ever had
11) drops hazard
12) slaps child
13) doesn't tell daughter that the GQ awards are not fancy dress - she goes as a sex worker
14) punishes media for child slapping incident
15) chaos as matic is sent off vs west ham for two deserved yellows:
15.a) two players booked for dissent
15.b) random chelsea coach sent away from the touchline for running onto the pitch during play
15.c) attempts to gain access to referees' lair at half time, banned from touchline as a result
15.d) storms off at full time without talking to anyone
16) claims chelsea's critics have been silenced following cup exit to stoke on penalties
17) after loss to liverpool, answers all of the post match interviewer's 12 questions with variants of 'i have nothing to say'
18) reputable sources claim a first team player said he 'would rather lose than win' for the manager
19) banned for one match and given £40k fine for tomfoolery after the west ham defeat
20) named individually in a separate legal action relating to decision against chelsea number 5
21) unironically criticises bournemouth for wasting time in a cynical manner during chelsea's 0-1 defeat

shouldn't you be in the League Two thread or whatever?

there is no lower league thread

maybe you can be the one to make it in approx 6 months when it becomes relevant to your interests

how prophetic those last words turned out to be

A chocolate bar named in the honour of plop.

pissed myself at this.

It's going to be difficult for Chelsea to finish top 6. No chance they finish top 4.

yeah top 4 is no shot, who cares what happens to them at this point tbh? The damage is done.

Dam I saw this earlier in the week and was holding it back for the opportune moment.

Chelsea will still finish closer to 10th then 18th but it would sure be fun if they were 17th with four matches left.

I got chelsea at about 7th or 8th

but to be fair, we've been saying since week 1 that they'll pick themselves up soon, so who knows whats going to happen.

why hasn't the translator been sacked yet?

Who are they going to get to replace him?