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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Scott Murray

Real Madrid, Chelsea and statistical shoo-ins

Our brave boys in Plaza Mayor on Tuesday.
Our brave boys in Plaza Mayor on Tuesday. Photograph: Nick Potts/PA

A REAL CHANCE?

Chelsea have had some great teams throughout the years, ever since the club was founded in 2003. But weirdly, neither of their two sides that landed Big Cup were, comparatively speaking, a particularly great vintage. The Fiver still has no idea how that first Mourinho team didn’t win the competition at least twice, for example, and it’s too simplistic to just blame Rafa Benítez and John Terry. Anyway, that’s not really the point, which is, they’re not that brilliant now either – Brentford, innit – and so The Fiver had assumed No 3 was a slam-dunk into the bag this year. But right now things aren’t looking so good. Huh? What gives?

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