People are just willing to be realistic with the performance of chelsea. The performance of chelsea is far from good. Im even refrain from myself to bet on this club.
Considering the performance of Chelsea is not advice able betting on them because they are very inconsistent in performance and also in wining so however in times of betting Chelsea match, they have cut so many bet because of there inconsistent, when you will feel that there match will be a very sure win for them at the end they will end up losing the match.
I'm even surprised to see Manchester United a bit better than Chelsea because is always Manchester United that's always in the shoes of Chelsea this season but however just like you said Chelsea is very far from getting better on less may be they will be able to recover on there next season and however there premier League next match against Fulham will actually be a tough one because I doubt if they can be able to wing the match.