A Chelsea participant is now boldly claiming that his aspect at the moment are the favourites to win the Champions League this season.
It’s a courageous prediction for certain, and maybe not one which his supervisor will agree with. Enzo Maresca prefers to play issues like this down and won’t pile this stress on his crew at this stage. However perhaps there will likely be a number of extra folks now agreeing that Chelsea do have a good probability of successful the Champions League after they thrashed Barcelona 3-0 at Stamford Bridge final night time?
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Even striker Liam Delap, who had been beneath some stress after his previous couple of video games, final night time to place The Blues 3-0 up.
This got here after one other Estevao Willian masterclass to place Chelsea 2-0 up quickly after half time and the crimson card occurred.
It was an unimaginable recreation and an enormous win for Chelsea and to be trustworthy, the Blues gamers simply wished it rather more than Barcelona did and so they confirmed extra want and extra intent all recreation from the second it began till the ultimate whistle.
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Chelsea now favourites?
Robert Sanchez celebrates Spurs win. (Picture by Alex Pantling/Getty Pictures)
That’s what goalkeeper Robert Sanchez thinks. The Blues stopper was in a position to sit in his deck chair all night time and have a really quiet recreation certainly. Barcelona provided zero menace to him actually aside from some early moments within the recreation.
Sanchez was quoted by as saying after the sport:
“Barça among the many favourites to win the Champions League? No, I see us as favourites.”
Can’t argue actually
If Barcelona are one of many favourites, and Chelsea simply beat them simply, I assume it’s arduous to argue that Chelsea should additionally now be one of many favourites, proper!?