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Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2024/2025
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Polkeins
on 21/01/2025, 12:24:14 UTC
It wasn't that all that rosey for Chelsea today as wolves gave them a run for their money. I think Chelsea knew that this match was a must win for them and any other thing aside a victory could have been dangerous. It's a pity seeing wolves lose two games in a row, they have some quality set of players that on a good day and with a tactics that works can do what Nottingham Forest is doing presently.
Wolves gave a tough fight in the first half and they were able to match Chelsea's game which continued to press, but entering the second half Chelsea's performance was much better and they started to find their rhythm and managed to secure full points. A win in this match is very important because Chelsea moved back up to fourth place and are now four points behind Nottingham Forest and Arsenal because Chelsea lost momentum in maintaining the positive trend in the previous five games. Manchester City are below Chelsea so there will be tighter competition and Chelsea must perform better if they don't want to be replaced by Manchester City in fourth place.
It was a very strange game from the start when Wolverhampton started playing with 5 defenders against Chelsea, who have a lot of strikers like Madueke and Jackson who can pass very tight opposing defenses. In the first half Sanchez played not very confidently and in fact he is to blame for the first goal, but then he made 3 100% saves, but nevertheless after the first half it seemed that Wolverhampton could score the second goal, but Chesley was lucky that their defenders took on the role of strikers and decided the outcome of the meeting in favor of Chelsea scoring 2 goals.

Trevo Chalobah made a perfect return from loan and although after Chelsea's spending a billion on the transfer market, it seems that there are questions on transfers if after such spending in the goal Sanchez plays in the goal, and a couple of defenders are Tosin and Chalobah.