Can Chelsea win the Premier League title? FIFA Club World Cup champs must show consistency but have momentum

World champions, Europe champions if you want to get everything West Ham on this subject, there is only one next logical step for Chélat. But could the Enzo Maresca team really become the first to hold the conference league, the club World Cup and the title of the Premier League (there are no belts but there should be)?

Ask Levi Colwill and he would tell you that it is eminently possible that winning the biggest prices of the game is nothing less than a requirement for anyone in his shirt.

“We are a team and it is in the identity of Chelsea,” he said after Rising the title of the club World Cup. “You stay together whatever happens. I think players like John Terry, Frank LampardDidier Drogba, they started this and we wear it.

“They were all incredible players, the best players who won a lot, but we have the best players in our team – the young players for sure – and this is our plan: win the biggest trophies for Chelsea. We are certainly able to do it. I think we have shown it. Everyone said that PSG was the best team in the world, but we won 3-0.”

You could hardly blame the graduate of the Academy, much more than a decade after his time at the club, for having believed that the best remains to come, certainly not in the remanence of the best performance of any Chelsea team, because they obtained our place during this competition by winning the Champions League 2020-21. Enzo Maresca’s game plan was performed to perfection, its players were aggressive, organized and intrepid. Play like that during a 38 game season and the sky is the limit for any team.

Of course, that’s the problem. Chelsea did not play close to this level all this often during the first season of Maresca. That’s why they ended up 15 points behind LiverpoolBy deleting for a berth among the first five when, halfway, their manager had deleted any presentation on the title. The latest Premier League painting offered a better reflection of who they were that the vertigo of November and December, settled safely in the third in the fifth area, but far from tale.

Chelsea did not mark enough last season, and although their defensive record was the third best in the league with 43 conceded, it must be much higher when only 64 goals take place at the other end. Their difference in goals expected of 21.16 was more than half that of Liverpool and a fair path of an injury Arsenal.

Their victory against PSG was all the more brilliant because of the way it was atypical. Against the rest of the first four of last season, Chelsea lost four, attracted one and won the other, an impressive 3-1 defeat of a Liverpool team whose feet were already based on the title of Premier League. The European Champions of Luis Enrique recorded only 17 keys in the box, four less than the average high flight opponent of Chelsea, despite two thirds of possession. One side that can sometimes be guilty of passivity with and without the ball broken in the first 10 minutes, fixing the tone. Maresca’s men were brilliant. Atypically as well.

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There is a risk that the cups say an enlarged version of Chelsea’s progress under Maresca. They did the only thing they could do in the conference league, Romant and got the breaks in the Club World Cup. Their second place seemed quite happy when Benfica launched Bayern Munich of the last equality in Charlotte. Then Al-Hilal and Fluminense cleaned the road from Manchester City and Inter.

None of this must rule out the excellence with which they have shot the European champions or whatever the jubilation that their supporters could feel at the sight of this big golden badge on kits without sponsor (which must be said, is an atmosphere). It is simply necessary to balance the solid evaluation of Todd Boehly from the Chelsea Club World Cup campaign-“The boys have shown that they are a force with which it is necessary to count,” he told Talksport-with the fact that their opponents in the Fluminense semi-finals are evaluated by Opta as slightly lower than Coventry City and Elche.

However, it offers momentum, right? Probably, but there is a lot of skeptic on how it will balance against the five weeks of rest and preparation before the start of their 2025-26 season. And Chelsea is obviously an improved team from last season, right? It is just to take into account a fair corner of individual growth of this young game, but there are questions to ask their transfer activity.

Joao Pedro started in the United States, but the brush penalties of the equation and he has 10 goals on 58 Premier League matches in the last two seasons, with an average of two and a half couples and 0.3 xg per 90. For Nicolas Jackson, now surrounded by Manchester United And AC Milan, these figures are noted 24, 2.78 shots and 0.55 xg. The exchange of noni Madueke for Jamie Gittens gives Maresca another option on the left, where Chelsea has long had trouble finding the guy. However, it is difficult to shake the feeling that a remarkably impressive short -term trajectory for the new signature coming in a more difficult league is to play At the level of the guy he replaces.

What makes Chelsea’s approach curious is that there seemed to be an avenue for this team to become legitimately excellent, especially now that it has a price of the world cup in money a hole in their pocket. There is an opportunity here to briefly turn away from the youth model of $ 70 million with upward advantages and put a little more to add the quality of the stars. Suppose they exchanged Jackson for a Victor Osimhen level attacker, acquired an elite level center to anchor their defense and bought another goalkeeper, the latter of the very higher level. Then you would have a team that checks each box.

After all, the future always looks incredibly brilliant for any team that has months Caicedo as anchor and Cole Palmer Like its creative spark. There are beautiful constituent parts that surround them at Reece James, Marc Cucurella and Enzo Fernandez to name just a few. Chelsea is not that Far at least entering into the conversation of the title, even if it seems at that time that their recruitment service does not make the optimal movements to bring them to them.

However, while Chelsea’s high watermark is a team that can explode European champions, heavy legs like PSG seemed to be, so there are reasons to believe in vision. It will just take a few additional games to this standard before the world champions can realize realistically to be the best team of their homeland.