Terrible record at Chelsea. You never quite know what Chelsea is going to turn up, due to them having so many young players and a volatile manager. If we go with the right attitude and frustrate them we have a chance, but if we lose 2 or 3 I wouldn't be surprised.
His comments the other day can be taken several ways. One is that it's his usual tactic of belittling the club and bigging himself up. The second is that it's an attempt to keep any perceived pressure off the players. The 3rd is that it's designed to put some pressure on the ownership to...
"Obviously we can't hope to compete with Nottingham Forest, given their resources and depth of squad,but I'm hoping to be allowed to go to the middle aisle of Lidl in January."
They have better players than us and break quickly, so we need to be solid, which is true of our current team generally. I would take a scruffy 1-0. Dyche, like Moyes, finds it easier to set up away from home. I'm going for a 1-1 draw.
If we'd lost away at Man United and Bournemouth which were the expected outcome, and chucked in that horror show against Newcastle we'd very much have been in one. But we didn't so happy days!
I hope we're talking to Oliver Glasner about what players he wants us to sign when the transfer window opens in the summer, and also talking to clubs about any fee we can get for Beto and Barry for starters.