Chelsea’s scoring drought is historic

Almost forty years have not seen such a poor scoring record from Chelsea. Five goals in six English championship games took the ‘Blues’ back to the 1985-86 season, the last one with such a serious goal drought. In fact, the Argentine coach Mauricio Pochettino They have yet to find the net in the last three games, against Aston Villa, Bournemouth and Nottingham Forest. There’s a goal problem at Stamford Bridge, and it’s no surprise.

Because Chelsea’s scoring numbers left a lot to be desired last year, when they scored 38 goals in the entire league, that is; just two more than Erling Haaland, Golden Boot of the competition. To solve a problem that is personalized to players like Kai Havertz, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Raheem SterlingChelsea sold the first two and carried Nico Jackson and Christopher Nkunku.

Nkunku is in the infirmary because before the start of the season, he was injured for four months due to a knee problem. while, jackson It has an xg of 4.18 (expected goals relative to its shots scoring probability). That means, according to the statistics, he should have scored at least four goals, but he only scored one.

In addition, the former Villarreal player will miss the next match, the derby against Fulham, due to the accumulation of yellow cards. Out of six Premier duels he has won five.

Jackson’s blur is contagious for the rest of the team, which has not scored in any of its last 45 shots – between goal and goal -, and which is another clean sheet away from worsening last year’s worst streak, also three games without scoring (Aston Villa, Liverpool and Wolverhampton Wanderers).

“It’s a mystery what’s going on at Chelsea. It’s as if chaos is running through the club. “It reminds me of United,” said Gary Neville, one of the best-known British television commentators, after the 0-1 defeat against Villa, a match marked by the expulsion of the French Malo Gusto.

Pochettino’s diagnosis

“I’m not frustrated, I’m disappointed. We were better until the red. The team gave everything, but we have to keep working,” said Pochettino, who knows where his team’s problem lies.

“We play with confidence, but the only thing we need is to score. If we work hard, that will change,” added the Argentine coach.

total, Chelsea have gone more than 300 minutes without scoring -discounts are not counted, which will increase the number even more- and can be thankful that on the third day they faced Luton Town at home, the worst team in the category, and scored three goals, moving away from the worst score. beginning of their history; what happened in 1956-1957, when in his first six games he scored only three goals.

Worst start since 1978

A further problem was that Chelsea were already losing ground to their competitors; They are fourteenth, with five points, that is; They are closer to relegation (four points) than to the ‘Champions League’ (nine points). One win in the first six games is their worst league start since 1978.

Besides, They do not compete in European competition, that can calm the external noise and give some easy victories against the lower teams, and the classification is necessary in this campaign, if they do not want to worsen the economic deficit they have after investing more than 1,000 million which was done in the last transfer windows.