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Last season led Chelsea league record number of 274 days. Never before had a layer lying on top of the table several days in a single Premier League season.
comparison led Manchester City, winners of season ahead, Premier League only 15 days in 2013 /14-sesongen.
Club Info:
Team name: Chelsea Football Club
Nickname : The Blues
Founded: 1905
Home ground: Stamford Bridge (41,837)
Manager: José Mourinho
Owner: Roman Abramovich
Chairman: Bruce Buck
table location last season: 1st place
Table Tips previous season: 1st place
Chelsea wholly superior league triumph was hardly ever threatened, and even if they exhaust points in two of the last three games, they won by eight points to table deuce City.
For the fifth time they went unbeaten through a season on their own turf, for with 15-4-0 at Stamford Bridge was that in 2004/05, 2005/06, 2006/07 and 2007/08 no layer went from west London with three points.
They also scored in all of their home games, something they last did in title season 2009/10, and with José Mourinho swinging of the baton was again virtually impossible to ingest fortress Stamford Bridge. The only team that managed it was an League One team Bradford, who beat them 4-2 in the FA Cup’s fourth round.
Transfers:
: Nathan (Atletico Paranaense, approximately 57 million), Asmir Begovic (Stoke, about 104 million), Danilo Pantić (PK Partizan, about 15 million), Radamel Falcao (Monaco, loan)
Out : thorgan hazard (Borussia Monchengladbach, about 75 million), Didier Drogba (released), Gaël Kakuta (Seville, approximately 33 million), Petr Cech (Arsenal, approximately 141 million), Josh McEachran (Brentford, ca. NOK 9 million), Filipe Luís (Atletico Madrid, about 144 million), Stipe Perica (Udinese, loan), Christian Atsu (Bournemouth, loan), Lewis Baker, Isaiah Brown, Nathan, Danilo Pantić Domic Solanke (all Vitesse , loan), Andreas Christensen (Borussia Monchengladbach, loan), Marco van Ginkel (Stoke, loan), Tomás Kalas (Middlesbrough, loan), Kenneth Omeruo (Kasimpasa, loan), Patrick Bamford (Crystal Palace, loan), Wallace (Carpi , loan)
Friendlies:
22. July: New York Red Bulls – Chelsea 4-2 (Rémy, Hazard)
25. July: Paris Saint-Germain – Chelsea 1-1 (Moses) 5-6 on penalties
28. July: Barcelona – Chelsea 2-2 (Hazard, Cahill) 4-2 on penalties
2. AUGUST: Chelsea – Arsenal Community Shield 0-1
5. AUGUST: Chelsea – Fiorentina 0-1
Strengths / Weaknesses
Plus :
+ Last season’s superior champion, and no obvious weaknesses in the stable.
+ José Mourinho has a winning instinct that few others – if any – match and lose hardly matches.
+ team has both a huge high peak and probably also the highest low point. An extreme ability to grind up results even on bad days.
Minus :
– Falcao only newcomer who genuinely can become first team plays in the short term, and his performance in the previous season was very weak. Damage to Costa at the moment. How fresh is / are he?
– José Mourinho prevails over a thin stall and has previously struggled in their third seasons. It happens again?
– None of the last seven league champions have defended the title. How are Chelsea players to be the reigning champion? Satiety has both they and other layers known in much lately.
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Neither in the League Cup, which Chelsea won by 2-0 against Tottenham in the final, and Champions League, where the team were eliminated on away goals after two draws against PSG settlement, no one managed to win over José Mourinho’s team.
Thus, it was actually only four teams who beat Chelsea in total, spread over all competitions in the season 2014/15. In addition to Bradford’s shock victory in the FA Cup they lost namely away games against Newcastle, Tottenham and WBA in the Premier League, and the latter of which came even after the league title was in the bag. Four defeats in all competitions is otherwise also a record low for a team in the Premier League era.
Even Arsenal’s “Invincibles” in 2003/04 lost more, when they lost a battle in FA Cup against Manchester United, both semifinal matches against Middlesbrough in the Carling Cup and three matches in the Champions League against Inter, Dynamo Kiev and Chelsea.
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At the start of last season, there were also many who launched the idea that Mourinho ruled over a new ‘Invincibles’ layers, then one after 14 league games unbeaten and was among others had escaped tough away games against Manchester City and Manchester United with tie in luggage. Sunderland had also held them to 0-0, while the remaining eleven matches had ended with three points.
In the 14th round was the dog end to win the series as Newcastle beat Mourinho’s upcoming Masters 2-1 on St. James’ Park on 6 December. The rest of the month went Watching undefeated, before seasonal second defeat – and worst single match – came at White Hart Lane against Tottenham on 1 January. Entire 5-3 Spurs won, but this match and the end of the season was the blue unapproachable.
2-0 against Newcastle, 5-0 away against Swansea and 1-1 draw against title contender Manchester City came in the three matches after bump you made at White Hart Lane, and those who believed that Chelsea Stóg would halt never got right. Admittedly they were during the next ten rounds not played a single game where it did not end with either a draw or one-goal victory, but as long as eight of his ended with three points was the more than good enough to benefit from everything that was of competitors.
3-1 victory away against Leicester on April 29 removed in reality all doubts, before the last of theoretical possibility that one would slip was removed when Crystal Palace was defeated 1-0 in the 35th round. Chelsea was league champion, and though it was 1-1 at home against Liverpool in the next round and the 0-3 loss away against WBA in the penultimate match, was the triumph of eight point margin to number two relatively superior.
Thus took Chelsea their fourth Premier League title, three of which have come under José Mourinho’s leadership, and with the Portuguese at the helm are the blue most people’s favorite to regain title Also coming season.
How tipping TV2 experts Chelsea:
Petter Myhre : 2nd place
Erik Thorstvedt: 3rd place
Trevor Morley: 1st place
øyvind alsaker: 1st place
Kasper Wikestad: 2nd place
Per- Jarle Heggelund: 2nd place
Jørgen Klem: 2nd place
Simen Møller: 2nd place
Average: 1.875. space
Keeper
One of the main reasons for Chelsea titles have been solid goalkeeping, where Petr Cech was dominant in the previous three had Czechs see themselves bypassed goalkeeper queue at Stamford Bridge last season. Thibaut Courtois was namely brought back after three seasons on loan at Atletico Madrid.
The burly Belgian made early claims on the first goalie place, and despite the fact that Courtois bar shirt number 13, there was no doubt that Cech’s days as the first club was over. Only seven times came Cech on the pitch in the Premier League last season, and was sold to Arsenal when the season was over, while Courtois showed that he was one of the league’s best players.
Had it not been that David de Gea had an incredible season in Manchester United’s cage would Chelsea’s new number one probably been a clear candidate for the season teams in the division, and 23-year-old kept a clean sheet for twelve matches in his debut season. By comparison, Cech kept a clean sheet 24 times in his debut season in 04/05, but then delivered then also Chelsea extreme low 15 goal total in a Premier League season.
The figures were not Courtois in close last season, but the giant of 1.99 delivered repeatedly Match crucial saves and could at season’s end add both Premier League- and ligacup triumph on an already strong CV. As 23-year-old now has he already additionally won the Belgian Cup and series, Spanish La Liga and Cup, the Europa League, the European Supercup and the individual rates for both this year’s goalie in Belgium and Spain, as well as space on the Champions League XI in 2013/14 .
New reserve goalkeeper at Stamford Bridge this season’s Asmir Begovic, who for years has also been considered to be among the Premier League’s chief goalkeepers. Bosnian comes from Stoke for about 100 million, and is in his former club named the season’s best player in two of the last three seasons. In 2013 he also received award for the best player in his homeland, and when he now takes over Cech’s old shirt number 1 is with the knowledge that there will probably be some fights occasionally also in his new club.
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Defense:
defense of Chelsea has undergone some changes since the last time José Mourinho was in the team, but one man is left from the first heyday, namely John Terry. Chelsea captain was last season’s Premier League history’s highest-scoring defender when his five league goals took him up to 39 in total, and he played perhaps his best season ever at the age of 34.
veteran on the pitch every minute, and became only the second field player in the Premier League era who played every minute of a season for a title-winning team. Gary Pallister did the same at Manchester United in 1992 to 1993, but it was at the age of 27. Terry’s performance in the previous season meant that he came in this year’s team in the Premier League for the fourth time in his career, but the previous three were in 03 / 04, 04/05 and 05/06.
At that time he was considered to be the nation’s chief might stop, received the award for the best seasonal plays in 2004/05, ended on VMs team in 2006 and was named the year’s best defensive player UEFA both in 2005, 2008 and 2009, but experienced a slight letdown when André Villas-Boas would revolutionize Chelsea at the beginning of the current decade. “The new Mourinho” managed but never revolutionize enough, and when Roberto Di Matteo took over he was back in central defense where he belonged.
2012/13 season was somewhat ruined by both injuries and suspension, the latter of racism case where he was initially acquitted in court and then be punished by the FA. This case also led to his exit from the England team, and without international football, he has been able to concentrate only on club football over the past three seasons. Maybe it’s also why he has recovered shape as one of the league’s top stoppers, and he is once again Chelsea’s main man in the back lines.
Over the years, his stops partners since their debut in 1998/99 season hooded everything from Marcel Desailly, Frank Leboeuf, William Gallas, Ricardo Carvalho and David Luiz to Robert Huth, Bernard Lambourde, Emerson Thome and Jeffrey Bruma, but the preceding season the partnership with Gary Cahill is arguably one of the better he’s been part of. 29 years old Cahill even played 36 of 38 games last season, and has established itself as the obvious first choice at the captain’s side after 3.5 season at the club.
Cahill went ranks of Aston Villa where he Premier League debut in 2005/06, but it was only in the years in Bolton between 2008 and 2012 he established himself as one of the Premier League’s best stoppers. After three full and two half seasons at the Reebok Stadium, he was sold to Chelsea for a scant 100 million kroner in January window in 2012, and did not disappoint at Stamford Bridge. Admittedly, it took some time before he found really calm, but the last two seasons is also he taken out on seasonal teams in the Premier League.
After he secured the league title in May he within three years won both the FA Cup, Champions League, Europa League, the League Cup and the Premier League, and according to the Daily Mail, he is the player who has won every one of the major trophies to win as the top player in England in the shortest possible time.
options to Terry and Cahill Chelsea stops the couple are not many, but both Branislav Ivanovic and youngsters Kurt Zouma and Nathan Aké can probably get to perform there next season. The two 20-year olds Zouma and Ake each from France and the Netherlands are possibly future stopperpar in the blue part of west London, and especially Zouma was also used part already last season.
giant came from Saint-Étienne where he already had three seasons behind him in Ligue 1, and in his debut season in England were 15 new games at the top level. In addition, he also played eleven matches in the cups, including from the start in a defensive midfield role in the league cup final against Tottenham. There showed Mourinho he a degree is confident young boy properties, and he is very interesting to follow the upcoming season.
Peers Ake has played five Premier League matches, spread over 3- 1-1 in the three seasons he has been in senior discussion at Stamford Bridge. He came from Feyenoord at age 15 in 2010 and debuted in the league at age 17 in December 2012. Nevertheless, he has not been near to break into something that resembles a place in the team and last season v ar he also in a month on loan at Reading in the Championship.
The competition for places is in fact fierce, and since most of the players also play every game there is little opportunity to cycle into the team. Right-back Branislav Ivanovic is perhaps the biggest iron man of all, and since a narrow start in Chelsea jersey played respectively 26, 41, 48, 45, 59, 50 and 47 games in one marathon season after another. Serb is still only 31 years and came to the season teams in the Premier League in both 2009/10 and 2014/15.
When the club won Europa League 2013 he became the match winner and named man of the match, while last season came in this year’s teams in the Champions League despite the fact that Chelsea were eliminated in the quarterfinals. Only four of Chelsea’s offensive players delivered several målpoeng (goals and assists) than Ivanovic’s nine last season, and he is known both for the offensive contributions and for a grueling and resolute defense style where he does not take any prisoners.
As César Azpilicueta has become more or less permanent left back, despite the fact that he is høyrefotet and joined the club as a right back, there will be virtually no competition for backplassen for Ivanovic in the upcoming season. 25 years old Azpilicueta is namely Chelsea’s only left-back, after the sale of Filipe Luís. It is likely at least a defensive reinforcement to Chelsea team during the summer, but for the time being they must at least rely on the fact that the gang is there already will play plenty of games. Azpilicueta has played a scant 30 league games each of the last three games, and excellent as one of the division’s most consistent backer.
Midfield:
Stability is there a degree also in midfield, where last season’s central duo Cesc Fàbregas and Nemanja Matic in many eyes’ was the league’s best central midfielders. At the age of 28 years took Fàbregas its first English league title, over eleven years after his debut in Arsenal. The Spaniard was also close by beating his old team-mate Thierry Henry’s assist record in the Premier League but with 18 total he ended two behind the legendary Frenchman.
There he got enough hear of his former captain, who had a lot to say for Fàbregas’ precocity. The same had when 18 year old Philippe Senderos, who could both English and Spanish and helped when 16 year old Fàbregas to adapt to life in North London when the two Arsenal newcomers lived from the summer of 2003. Fábregas was taken from Barcelona, and debuted 16 years and 177 days old as the youngest in Arsenal history in October 2003.
From there it just snowballed for his virtuoso, though he did not get any league matches in his debut season and with it nor did medal in the season to now is Arsenal’s last title-winning season. Eight years in the team he took just an FA Cup trophy, but was on the team that lost the Champions League final, was the team captain, came on this year’s team in the Premier League twice and was voted the young player in Premier League once.
In addition, he won the European Championship in 2008 and the 2010 World Cup with Spain, so when his former club Barcelona lured him back to Spain in summer 2011 was thus an experienced 24- old who packed up and returned to their homeland. He remained there for three seasons, winning the league and cup, before the words were returning to the Premier League last summer. Arsenal wanted him after reports not, and instead he signed for what would become José Mourinho’s new mesterlag in Chelsea.
Debut season started in a hundred, and delivered a total of 15 målpoeng (goals and assists) in the first half of the season. During spring the contributions fewer and fewer, but he ended anyway in 18 assists and three goals in his debut season. Midfield Colleague Matic contributed nearly as much in this part of the game with one goal and three assists, but then neither is it therefore Serb is part of the team.
giant 1.94 does however everything else, and his tackling, running capacity and ability to break down opponents with a huge presence not inferior to anyone in the Premier League. The now 27-year-old central midfielder joined Chelsea first time already in 2009, from the Slovakian Kosice. Then he was seen as a playmaker, but never received breakthrough and was loaned to Vitesse. Then he was sold to Benfica as part of the deal that sent David Luiz to Chelsea.
In Portugal he progressed to become a defensive monster, and when Jose Mourinho took over Chelsea in the summer of 2013 it became clear early on that he wanted Matic back to the club. In January 2014 the transition was completed, for just under NOK 250 million, and since then has not giant looked back. Already comeback season he excelled as a central part of the team, while the title season last year came in this year’s team in the division.
Matic-Fàbregas duo also undermined that it was limited playing centrally in the middle of John Obi Mikel, who next to Kurt Zouma was the only real defensive midfield cover. Nigeria he had through his first eight seasons at Stamford Bridge has been between 35 and 49 games, but last season was only 26 at the 28-year-old. As Marco van Ginkel is loaned again, and you have not yet picked up some new, it is likely that Mikel still remains in Chelsea, despite rumors of a move to including Turkish football.
Front the incumbent duo put Mourinho himself last season mostly by a trey with two edges and an offensive central midfielder, and in one of these three roles played at any time Eden Hazard. Last season’s big Chelsea players played all 38 league games, was named player of the year in England by both players and journalists and was obvious on this year’s team in the division – for the third season in a row.
24-year-old scored for the second season in a row 14 times in the league, and has been one of the Premier League’s most dominant players since joining Chelsea from Lille summer of 2012 for £ 32 million (about 350 million). He came after three seasons as Ligue 1′s most dominant offensive midfielder, and you do not see more than the Hazards individual merits of the past seven seasons to realize how good he has been in recent years:
- 2008/09: Year young players in Ligue 1
- 2009/10: This year young player in Ligue 1, with the team of the year division
- 2010/11: Player of the year in Ligue 1, with the team of the year division
- 2011/12: Player of the year in Ligue 1, with the team of the year division
- 2012 / 13: With the year’s team in the Premier League
- 2013/14: Year young players in the Premier League, with the team of the year division
- 2014/15: Player of the Year x two in the Premier League, with the team of the year division
In addition, he is the last two seasons named the best player in Chelsea, last season got all 23 opponents yellow card to trap him and Belgian has really lived up to tag as “Europe’s most coveted player” when he arrived England three years ago.
In the other two offensive midfield positions last season were mostly three Brazilians who took turns playing beside Hazard. Willian ended on 36 league matches, two goals and three assists, Oscar in 28 games, six goals and eight assists and Ramires on 27 matches, two goals and four assists, but the latter two also played some games more centrally. The trio gets whatever important also in the upcoming season, as Mourinho once again decide to go for a narrow strap.
From January window and out was also Juan Cuadrado an option in this stratification, but the Colombian received only four games from the start and eight substitute and delivered either goals or assists for the transition from Fiorentina. In practice, he had replaced André Schürrle, who went to Wolfsburg in the same window, and German’s contribution to the league title was the stronger, when he scored three goals before he left the club in January.
Also in pre-season has Cuadrado worn, and in the recent friendly against Fiorentina Wednesday he delivered reportedly a show on one wing that David Copperfield would have been proud of. On the other wing was yet another power plug that showed that he wants to play a role in the Chelsea team next season. Victor Moses takes namely embark on his second Chelsea-season, three years after he was brought to the club. For after only one goal in 23 games since moving from Wigan in 2012, it was lending to Liverpool and Stoke in the next two years for the Nigerian national team player. He is now 24 years old, and seems to have been given one last chance to shine in Chelsea jersey.
Currently, even after years younger Mohamed Salah Chelsea player, but Egypt’s transition to Roma are apparently confirmed shortly. The little dribble Gypsy played in any event only three times in the league for the blue last year, before he disappeared to Fiorentina on loan as part of the deal that took Cuadrado to West London. Other options in the stratification are youngsters Nathaniel Chalobah (20), Bertrand Traore (19) and Ruben Loftus-Cheek (18).
Although Loftus-Cheek got three league games last season, it is especially Traore who probably has the greatest hopes of playing time this season, 18 months after he was brought to the club and immediately loaned to partner club in the Netherlands, Vitesse. Last season scored the wing 14 times Dutch Honorary Secretary, and the man from Burkina Faso have been told Mourinho that he this season to get playing time for Chelsea. 19-year-old has also already an incredible 24 caps for the homeland, and debuted at age 15 in September 2011.
Attacks:
Last season acted Chelsea attacked mostly one man, namely Diego Costa. In his debut season after transition from Atletico Madrid scored «Beast» 20 league goals and lay a long time likely to be top scorer in the division. Lost time injury did though he only played 26 games, but it was enough to get by on this year’s team in the division and to be nominated for player of the year.
See also: All targets from “Beast” s fantastic first season
Thus surfed he on the successes of the season before, when he scored 27 times for Atletico Madrid team that won La Liga ahead of the muzzle at the stars from Barcelona and Real Madrid. Prior to that year, he had never scored more than ten league goals for any team, but in his second term in Madrid he got it really to swing.
The first years in the Spanish capital was however heavy, after the transition from Portuguese Braga in 2007, he was loaned to both former club and the Celta and Albacete before being sold Valladolid in 2009. There, he scored six times in the first twelve matches in the league, and despite the fact that he struggled more last half of the season selected Atlético buying back clause he had in his contract, and used him as a backup to Sergio Agüero and Diego Forlán at Vicente Calderon.
Eventually, he played himself into the team instead of Forlán, but was still on track to be sold to the Turkish Besiktas in summer 2011. A knee injury put an end to dog transition, and also start of the season 11/12, before being loaned to Valladolid in January 2012. Then he started to score goals, and ended at 3:50 matches for the club, which meant that he in 2012 / 13 again got a chance to Atlético.
The he got together with Radamel Falcao, who had scored 24 times in the season in advance and had been the club’s big star after Sergio Agüero disappeared to Manchester City. In 12/13 season were a further 28 goals for Falcao, while Costa contributed by ten, included in the Spanish Cup final as Atlético beat Real Madrid for the first time since 1999.
The following year was Falcao away, and da Costa for the first time got to play first violin was also top scorer title in the team. Only Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo’s 28 league goals were 31 more than Costas 27, and thus followed thus also a move to Chelsea last summer. There he continued to pour into goal, especially at the beginning of the season, but it became clear that he far from able to play all the games.
Seven goals in the first four his was nevertheless extremely impressive, and Costa was very central in pang start that allowed Chelsea sat straight course towards the league title already in the autumn season. The injuries affected him yet towards the end, and in summer it began to swirl even rumors that the Brazilian-born Spanish striker would leave the club after just one season. Speculation went on that he struggles with the climate and the language of England nor food to be the way he wants it. In retrospect, these transitional speculation rejected, and now that he gets his old teammate from Atletico Madrid to team it might be even less reason to homesick 26-year-old.
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