Chelsea Ahmedabad

Date - 14 October, 2017 Time -19:30 IST Venue - Selhurst Park, London Our next Premier League assignment takes us to Selhurst Park to take on 20th-placed Crystal Palace. The Eagles are yet to score a single goal, and will be looking to avoid becoming the first club in the history of the Premier League to lose each of its first 8 games. For Chelsea, it is a question of redemption, as we look to bounce back from the 1-0 defeat to Manchester City last time out. We are now 7 points behind the two Manchester clubs at the top, and hardly have any margin for error if we want to have any chance at successfully defending our title. This was the exact same point in the season at which we began our 13-match unbeaten run last year. Click here to see what the Amdavadi Blues think our chances are of repeating that feat.  This corresponding fixture was one of those 13 matches last year, when a header from Diego Costa was enough for all three points. Palace, did however, shoc...

Four wins, one draw and two losses. This was the exact same record with which we went into the second international break of the season last year. Nobody really gave us any chance of challenging for the league title, and a lot of the fans would have taken a top 4 finish. The rest, as they say, is history. Antonio Conte wrung the changes, and switched to a three-man defence. We always he would do this eventually, but the sudden move at half-time in a 3-0 defeat to Arsenal was more out of desperation than anything else. When we took to the pitch next, against Hull City, everything was different. We got both a win and a clean sheet, but no one could have fathomed the extent to which our fortunes had changed. For the rest of October, and the whole of both November and December, we didn't drop a single point. In a streak that spanned thirteen games, we went from being stark outsiders to heavy favourites for the title. Despite seeing the dream run coming to an end at White Hart Lane...