Chelsea’s big problem made obvious by most important stat of all

But for a long period, at least until Christmas, the Blues were neck and neck with Liverpool and Man City, and all year long they showed themselves to be capable of matching either of them in a one off game.

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15 June 2022, 05:23 published Updated 14 June 2022, 18:07

Chelsea’s big problem made obvious by most important stat of all

What let them down in the end was a lack of consistency, and what caused that was a lack of goals. The defending was good – the best in the league at times – but a lack of free scoring forwards meant that we were too often pegged back in games late on, having not built up enough of a lead to afford a goal against.