The English premier league will never cease to have it wonders. This time it was the champions league having a cameo in the mysterious epl realm. Manchester united was knocked down into the Europa league while Arsenal getting a surprising win over Olympiakos after Giroud scored his first Arsenal champions league hat-trick. Arsenal have made a habit of repeatedly qualifying for the champions league as they have done it 18 times in a row. Unfortunately they have never won it. They are like a student who has taken an exam eighteen times but has never passed. They always come short of it. But may this be their year?
Manchester city and Chelsea have gone on to qualify for the round of 16 with Arsenal but Manchester city seem to have the easiest route as they have seemingly the least challenging or at least the least popularly challenging opponents out of the English trio. Man city face Dynamo Kiev who luckily went past Porto in their group, Chelsea face PSG who are so far unbeaten in their league and Arsenal face the almighty Barcelona who won the treble last season and are looking dangerous even with recurring injuries on Neymar and having lost Messi for some time.
Watford, Leicester and Bournemouth don't seem to be wanting to calm down and go where everyone expects them to. They don't care what other people think and are just winning matches like its nobody's business. Same goes to crystal palace and west ham they just refuse to drop points. Unfortunately they have left a void which must be filled and unfortunately Norwich,Sunderland, Swansea and Aston Villa have stepped forward as worthy replacements. But to tell you the truth as a Chelsea fan I would rather Leicester win the league rather than Arsenal. At least we wear the same shade of blue.
Now to some more urgent matters. The Vardy and Mahrez show continued in the king power stadium and the guests were the unfortunate Chelsea fc. The players looked like they were being forced to play and that was clearly shown in the match when Hazard substituted himself off the pitch and Diego Costa made sleeping gestures to his fellow teammates after they conceded a goal. They were not in the game and although Remy( who I beleive should be CFC'S no.1 striker) got one goal back . It was not enough.
Jose Mourinho stated thet he felt like he was betrayed by the players and that ended up to be his famous last words as he was later dismissed by the oh so reliable Roman Abramovich. This I believe to be a big mistake in which he will come to regret when it is too late. I strongly hope for Chesea's sake that I am wrong. But maybe that is what Chelsea needed a breath of fresh air to bring a new opinion.
I hope the new manager will put Remy upfront, play Kenedy, Oscar and Willian. Ramires and Loftus behind them and maybe leave the defense as it is. I would give Djilobodji and Traore their chances at the back and see what happens. Also maybe start Pedro on the left back more often and play Hazard as the number 10 on his jersey because he's definitely not wearing it for fashions sake. I hope what he doesn't do is buy and sell like he is at a medieval grocery that would just make everything worse.
I am sad to see Jose go and I wish him the best in his future as long as he does not come to manage any epl team.
