So impossible: Chelsea went almost a month without scoring

The goal is the football party and on Chelsea It had been a long time since it was worth his horrors to celebrate a target. In fact, since last March 18, when Kai Havertz He scored 2-1 against Everton, which did not see a goal.

It’s almost a month and more than six hours of gameplay. During that time, the Chelsea They have shot on goal 61 times, drawn one match, lost three and most worryingly, not scored a single goal.

Fewer goals than Haaland

The four games without scoring mean the worst ‘blues’ drought in thirty years, fittingly fitting a terrible season in terms of goalscoring. Only five teams in the Premier League have fewer goals than them (29) and even then Haalandaccumulating 30 goals in the competition, surpassed them.

Chelsea’s drama is explained from the absence of a pure ‘nine’, because they released Romelu Lukaku in the summeron loan at Inter Milan, and Timo Werner and his replacement, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, has always seemed more outside than inside the team dynamic. In fact, the Gabonese was not present at the return against real Madridbecause it is not registered in European competition.

In sum, Chelsea’s starting trident, formed by Kai Havertz, Raheem Sterling and joao felix He has thirteen goals this season, split between seven for the German, four for the Englishman and two for the Portuguese. The balance is very difficult and highlights that Chelsea cannot continue another season relying on that Havertz learn to play as a ‘nine’.

Surprisingly, the ‘blues’ problem among pure forwards is not new, but rather endemic and goes back to the years of Didier Drogba. Since the African’s departure, only Diego Costa has been convincing up front at Stamford Bridge. The Spaniard, now at Wolverhampton Wanderers, has scored 59 goals in 120 games, that is; a goal every two games.

Since, alvaro morata, Gonzalo Higuain, tammy abraham and stupid They are neither convinced nor dazzled. His steps in Chelsea were very difficult and led to the fact that there was no successful ‘nine’ for a long time because in the neighborhood of Fulham there was talk of a “curse”.

Added to this is the uneven investment in the last two windows. 600 million invested in strengthening all positions, except for ‘nine’. Especially painful is the last winter market where Todd Boehley He disbursed 330 million, he already knew the goal problem, and none of them went to a striker.

To even think about eliminating Real Madrid, Chelsea need to score at least two goals, something they have achieved just fourteen times this season, in 41 games played. Utopia?