13-14 賽季全數據 ~ 綜述 - 切爾西足球俱樂部 Chelsea Football Club

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POST-SEASON BRIEFING 2013/14

Posted on: Sat 24 May 2014


Club historian Rick Glanvill and club statistician Paul Dutton have their
traditional final word, and numbers, on the season just completed…

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Chelsea finished the 2013/14 season third in the top flight for the second
season running and the seventh in our history, stretching back to the
first occasion in 1919/20. It is the 15th time Chelsea have ended a
campaign in the top three.


In this season's Barclays Premier League, the Blues managed the third best
home record, the fifth best away from home, the third highest goals total
(71) and the fewest conceded (27). Our proud records of the most Premier
League points (95 in 2004/05) and goals (103 in 2009/10) remain intact.


The leadership of the table changed 25 times over the course of the
season, with Jose Mourinho's side occupying top spot the second longest,
64 days, five more than Liverpool. Arsenal led for 128 days before
slipping to fourth.


Despite accruing the fewest days at the summit, eventual champions
Manchester City had games in hand for many weeks that, with a full points
haul, would have placed them there.


The Blues stood alone in beating a top-four side home and away - a feat
achieved twice, against Manchester City and Liverpool. In total we took 16
points from the top four - the next best in that endeavour were
relegation-threatened Aston Villa.


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Gary Cahill celebrates our win at Man City


The standout league performances came at the Etihad and Anfield, and in
the historic 6-0 floor-wiping of the Gunners at the Bridge. City had a 100
per cent home record before the Blues' 1-0 tactical masterclass there,
emulated a few months later on a very confident Merseyside.


Chelsea did the Double over five other sides: Cardiff, Fulham, Hull,
Southampton and Swansea. A further five sides took just a single point
from our encounters: Man United, Norwich, and, of course, Arsenal,
Tottenham and West Ham.


The 3-1 victory over Manchester United was the 100th in the Premier League
for Mourinho, making him just the fourth to achieve this at the same club.
He has beaten every side he has faced in the top flight at least once and
has notched more points against Liverpool - nine - than any other club.


The top two both netted over 30 goals more than Chelsea's 71 (which was
our goal difference in 2010) and it was in the tightest contests where the
Blues needed to be more efficient in front of goal.


Until January, when Fernando Torres struck at Southampton, none of the
centre-forwards was able to hit the target away from home; Demba Ba
eventually weighed in twice, in April.


Adopting a deeper role in his 13th season at the Bridge, Frank Lampard, so
often a game-changer, naturally slipped below double figures for the first
time since 2002/03.


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Lampard Chelsea


Defensively Mourinho's men were truly exceptional, the best by a margin:
the next tightest rearguard, Man City's, conceded 10 more than the 27 of
Cech, Terry and co.


No side preserved as many clean sheets or lost fewer league games than
Chelsea. The six sides who beat the Blues were Everton, Newcastle, Stoke,
Aston Villa, Crystal Palace and Sunderland. Every one of those narrow but
damaging defeats came on a Saturday immediately before a midweek game in
the Champions League.


The Blues were undefeated in all 12 Sunday matches this season, winning 11
of them and conceding just six goals. Our last four domestic defeats on a
Sunday were against the Manchester clubs - three City, one United - most
recently April 2013.


Nonetheless Europe again produced some of the season's most memorable
moments. The thrilling 2-0 comeback from a 1-3 first-leg deficit against
PSG amid a deafening atmosphere at the Bridge was the highlight, but the
emotional return of Munich 2012 hero Didier Drogba to his spiritual home,
as a Galatasaray player, ran that a close second.


'I was proud, so proud,' the Ivorian commented afterwards. 'I spent eight
years of my life there - and they have been the best of my football
career. Chelsea is my club, it's my team. It was great to see the fans
again. They're still here [in my heart].'


Less welcome was Eden Hazard's status as the most fouled player in
European football last season. He was abused 34 times, nine of those
misdemeanours coming against our semi-final vanquishers, Atletico Madrid.


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Hazard Chelsea


Chelsea's lonely persistence in reaching the latter stages in Europe has
not, as is often suggested, been solely responsible for England retaining
four Champions League places - that threat has been some way off. However
we have almost single-handedly kept our national association above that of
Germany in UEFA rankings.


When the next draw is made Chelsea will be seeded fourth, a slip of one
place compared to last year as a result of Real Madrid's success. Others
English sides are losing more ground.


Arsenal dropped out of the first eight and only qualify for top seeding in
2014/15 because of sixth-ranked Manchester United's failure to qualify for
Europe. Man City (22nd in UEFA rankings) and Liverpool (32nd) could well
land themselves tough groups from which to emerge.


As a result of their absence from Europe in 2014/15, United's club
coefficient will drop considerably next year, when their 2009/10 tally of
28.5856 points also drops out of the equation. They could well find
themselves out of the top seedings.


On the subject of looking forward, the top flight has lost one west London
rival, Fulham, but may possibly gain another, Queen's Park Rangers, this
weekend.


We had lost only once to our SW6 neighbours in the Premier League era, so
in pragmatic terms they will be missed almost as much as Cardiff City,
against whom we have a 100 per cent record (two wins in two games).
Norwich were slightly chirpier, the Canaries winning four of our 14
encounters since 1992/93.


Newly promoted champions Leicester have suffered nine defeats, managed
four draws and won three times against Chelsea. Burnley's record against
the Blues is identical to that of Cardiff.


In statistical terms (as well as local rivalry) the Stamford Bridge
faithful should be hoping for a Derby play-off win: the Rams have come
away pointless from 10 of our 14 Premier League meetings, twice as many
times as the Rs have from 12.


It would also enhance our title chances to see off the likes of Stoke and
Sunderland, both of whose winning goals were scored by Liverpool loanees:
Oussama Assaidi and former Chelsea pro Fabio Borini. From his temporary
base at Everton, on-loan striker Romelu Lukaku scored five of his goals
against our title rivals, including a brace in the Toffees' 3-3 draw with
Liverpool.


Fellow centre-forward Patrick Bamford, 20, turbocharged Derby County's
promotion campaign after his loan in late January while Thorgan Hazard,
Eden's younger brother, won Belgium's equivalent of the Football Writers'
and PFA Player of the Year awards during his spell at Zulte Waregem.


Chelsea's Academy production line continues to excel. Chelsea's Under-18s
edged two pulsating games against Fulham 7-6 on aggregate to lift the FA
Youth Cup for the third time in five years. That is one-club domination
not seen since the Busby Babes won the first five Youth Cups in the
mid-1950s, and permits hopes of a 'golden generation.'


Not to be outdone, the Under-21s were undisputed champions at their level
after topping the league then beating the Manchester clubs City and United
on their respective home patch in the play-off semi-final and final.


Youngsters Isak Ssewankambo, Ola Aina, Andreas Christensen, Ruben
Loftus-Cheek, Kasey Palmer, Charly Musonda and Charlie Colkett were
involved in both denouements.


Jose Mourinho handed first team debuts to three Academy graduates in
2014/15: Tomas Kalas (pictured below), John Swift (connected with the club
from the age of 14) and the club's Young Player of the Year, Lewis Baker,
a Blue from the age of nine. That is the most blooded since 2010/11, when
Jacob Mellis, Josh McEachran and Ryan Bertrand featured.


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Kalas Chelsea

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