Yes, they played midweek. But was looking at their bench, stacked with the likes of Giroud, Kante, Pulisic, Ziyech, Abraham.....still plenty of rested firepower to hurt us. Unfortunately I'm going 4-1 Chelsea.

My prediction Giroud will score but I think we can win it 2-1

COYP

One more point

A reality check.
We have lost our last SIX league games against Chelski. Our only win against then under Hodgson was (ironically) our first victory after that awful 7 game horror show of 'nul points' and no goals. Even then our first goal was scored for us by Chelski!

Turning to Saturday, I will be delighted if we can scrape a draw (and gob-smacked if we win). I'm expecting a defeat, sadly. Indeed, we could still have 38 points after this and the following two games (Leicester and Citeh).

Obviously but there is that quiet space in my mind telling me nothing has gone to plan this season so I am going to say we will reach 40 points after the next 3 games.

We will beat Leicester. We nearly always beat leceister.

Interesting that posters on The Shed are less than delighted with Tuchel so far. Fickle lot, football supporters. Say he needs to start getting more points from mid to lower end clubs. Some wag has suggested they start with Roy Hodgson's Palace.

Probably right though. I'm on the side of 'delighted with a draw' crew. Methinks they have too much quality for us to conquer.

Dad and I watched games standing on the muddy slope of the Holmesdale Road end. He cheered and I rattled.