How much more confident does this recent run of form make Chelsea fans for next season? Or did that Arsenal trashing wipe all of it away?
confident but not stupid
the form has been coming, it's largely been a chickens coming to roost in terms of what we had been showing for
spells of matches prior, while removing a lot of the stupid mistakes that had turned good performance Ws into Ds or Ls. the form fills with confidence largely because it's results becoming more reflective of what's been on the pitch much of the time
this is not a contending side, obviously. still a lot of chaos and a lot of problems. a lot of their underlyings, tho, have had them closer to Villa. the defense remains very vulnerable, which has been from a weird combo of individual errors but also very evident structural things. that's the big thing which needs fixing, and we're nowhere near contending until it's dealt with.
the big questions for next year are how to re-integrate nkunku and james (hopefully both fit) and the bigger question of enzo and caicedo.
i don't read heavy into the arsenal game. it was 1-0 at half, and it was a tight first half. after the 2nd goal, we collapsed.
the hope going into next year will be top 4, which i think is extremely doable. if chelsea hadn't drawn at home against sheffield and burnley, they'd be just 4 back from villa.