It’s been an exciting few years for betting on Chelsea, and that doesn’t look like it’s going to change anytime soon.
We’ve played 5 games of the new season, yet we don’t feel like we’re anywhere closed to knowing if this team is going to be a big hit or a total disaster by the time we get to May. The bookies, even those at the best sportsbook canada, are equally in the dark right now, so if you predict a major swing one way or the other, this is the time to back it.
As it stands, the Blues are rated as fourth favourite to make the top 4. That means the bookies fancy them more than the likes of Tottenham, Newcastle and Aston Villa. It’s a huge show of faith in the signing we’ve made and the manager we’ve appointed, because those sides all appear more established and more settled. After 3 league matches played, they’re also all already ahead of us in the table.
But how will the odds be looking when we reach the next international break? Our upcoming fixtures give us a great chance to force our way up the table. We play Bournemouth next weekend, followed by West Ham, Brighton and Nottingham Forest before the October pause.
That’s a really interesting run of teams to measure ourselves against. All of them (perhaps with the exception of Forest) look like really upwardly mobile teams this season who will be providing us serious competition for European places. If we come through that run and have given them all a run for their money, we can confidently start looking up at the Champions League places.
But pick up some bad results there and even the best bookies be starting to seriously lengthen our odds of a top 4 finish. After that it gets really messy. If we can prove ourselves against that cluster of strong, mid-table teams, we then get our next test, against some of the Champions League contenders. Liverpool, Newcastle, Man U then Arsenal provide a pretty serious run which is going to test us to the limit.
It’s a great chance for Enzo Maresca to show the league what he’s made of. By then he will have had plenty of time to get his system sorted and integrate even the latest deadline day signings into it.
When the full time whistle blows on that Arsenal game it will be mid-November, and our season will already have really taken shape.
