It's that time of the year in the EPL season where the championship shapes up, the league table sizes up. Chelsea looks by far the most formidable team with a lead of 5 points from their closest rivals Man Utd. The champions are still not in their top gear and they normally get into their stride during this greasy time of the league. On the other hand Carlo's Chelsea seems almost poignant to win this years premiership title.
I must say Chelsea's bench and overall strength in the quality of internationals they can call upon is remarkable. The fruits to Roman Abromavich millions have finally started to take shape. More importantly despite playing some lackluster football, box to box style of play, they have beaten all their top counterparts especially Arsenal (Gunned down 3-0!!).
Man Utd are traditionally slow starters but they clearly seem to have lack in firepower since the departure of Ronaldo and Tevez this summer.They now depend on their prolific forward Rooney who has been a shining beacon of hope and has seen a rise in the goals department with his anchor role in the striker position. What seems divided in opinion is the silky Bulgarian Berbatov. Last season might not have been the best for him, yet this season begs to differ. I must say his improvement in the area covered on pitch seems to have taken a paradigm shift. The effort is there yet that goal poaching material he possessed while he was with Totenham lacks. The price tage of 31.75 million pounds may be the burden he is still carrying.
However, what the turn of events will be the glut of matches during the winter period. In addition, with the African Nations cup coming in January things could dramatically change in the table. Chelsea will loose 4 first team players in Drogba, Essien, Obi Mikel, Kalou and how they will cope will purely depend on Man Utd finishing off matches. Drogba and Essien are key to Chelsea's style of play and if Chelsea drops games the table positions will be interesting.
The posers are there in Aston villa, Man city with their millions from Abu Dhabi and a rejuvenated Totenham who is playing decently under Harry Redknapp.One of them will break into a top 4 position at the expense of Liverpool (the scousers need to get their manager Rafa out of their system). The biggest poser will be the blue half of Manchester City. Needless to say their highly popular red half of Mancunia will be best shape to claim a record 4th title with their resilience and squad disposal.
Beaming joy would it be. December is gonna be fun time.. I'm over to the World Cup draws, my odds are 16/1 on England winning the World Cup.Fat Chance!!, Viva Brazil !!
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