Arsenal were champions in 2004 and are a Premier League record with 49 games unbeaten, but if Chelsea maintain their winning run in the first half of the season, they will end the season with 92 points. That would be two points above last season's 38-game unbeaten Arsenal bottom stand.

It would be a terrible record, but as Alex Ferguson recently said, football will be a different story heading into the New Year, and the game will be a different competition.

All three teams have won three in a row recently, with United also surpassing Everton on goal difference at the end of the previous round, with the troika already on their own tracks.

But the difference between them by 5 and 4 points makes things delicate. If the points were a little closer, or a little farther away, maybe no one would have the pressure they are now.

Maybe Chelsea have had their best days, they are in the lead, and even if they lose a game, they will still be at the top of the table. But for both Arsenal and Manchester United, the consequences of a loss and a draw are catastrophic, and once Chelsea are eight points ahead, it will be extremely difficult for Arsenal to chase them; For Manchester United, 12 points behind the top team in the second half of the season, the chances of winning the title will be slim.

But there is one thing Chelsea that United and Arsenal don't have: an underlying fear of winning the title. Unlike Manchester United and Arsenal, who alternately dominate the Premier League, Chelsea have never won the Premier League.

Jose Mourinho also has no such experience, although he has the Champions League and has experience of beating Manchester United, Deportivo La Coruna and Monaco last season, but there is no guarantee that these will be passed on to his players, so it is conceivable. When they encounter obstacles in their way, their ability to bear is worrying.

Mourinho has always said. How difficult it is to win the first time. Compared to Manchester United and Arsenal, Chelsea's journey to the title will undoubtedly be the hardest. They've done a great job so far. But it's hard to say that there are no flaws. The previous 2-2 draw by Bolton Wanderers shows that they can also become tired when their confidence is high; The 2-2 draw with Arsenal showed their lack of experience compared to their opponents; Their last two games against Aston Villa and Portsmouth have been unconvincing.

They will face a tough test when they take on Liverpool at Anfield on the first day of the new year.

Of course, Arsenal's next game against Charlton Athletic and Manchester United's next game against Middlesbrough will also be crucial games.

The next 19 games are crucial. By May. The League Cup has been subordinated, and only the FA Cup and Champions Cup are in the final.

These cup conjectures will be intertwined with league conjectures over the next five months. The Carabao Cup is the lightest of the pack, but it would be a huge boost for Chelsea and Manchester United to lift their first trophy of the season at the end of February. The FA Cup has been shared between Manchester United and Arsenal in the past few years, and this year's Chelsea will see the race even more intense.

2004 was a year of "dark horses", with Millvo reaching the FA Cup final, Porto winning the Champions Cup and Greece winning the European Cup.

In 2005. Will it be a year of fighting back against tradition, or will it be a year of returning to tradition?

If Chelsea are successful in this year, then 2005 will not be a repeat of the past, at least for England. Perhaps they will once again turn the old order of the Champions Cup upside down. At least their coach succeeded last year. If 'Chelsea' ends up being the keyword of 2005, it will be a special year, all the speculation about 2005. It's all about Chelsea.

Chelsea got their wish to win Portsmouth, but Jonker was a little depressed. The ball didn't go in, not to mention, and hit the back of the whole field. In the end, he was ridiculed by the media.

It's all nonsense, but now it's good to become a Chelsea firefighter, not only do you have to make a temporary cameo in midfield, but you also have to accept the noise of the British media at the end.

He doesn't want to make any more cameos, but the situation and schedule in the Chelsea squad now have to keep him playing a two-faced role.

Mourinho also talked to Jonker in depth and assured that after the intensive schedule, he would return to his familiar position, and now the priority is to help the team get through the current difficulties.

The head coach has said so, what else can Jonker do, for the sake of the team, he has to play if he doesn't want to play anymore!

Originally, Jonker thought that he was mainly replacing Makelele, and when the French were physically exhausted, he temporarily played a cameo role as a defensive midfielder, and it should not be difficult to deal with it with the foundation of the Ajax period.

But through the last round of games, he began to doubt that the Premier League is far more challenging than the Eredivisie, and the speed and rhythm are not comparable to the Eredivisie.

However, in a reluctant state, it is obviously unrealistic to expect a good state.

In the next round of the league, Chelsea will go to Anfield!

Jonker is facing Liverpool's midfielder and striker team-up, and he feels a little unconfident, the newborn calf in Ajax is not afraid of tigers, and he is not afraid of AC Milan, what is wrong now?

It's not good to say, Jonker has already identified himself as a striker, and as for the midfield, that's not what he should do, so it's natural to have a kind of resistance.

There are a lot of problems, but Mourinho really dared to use Jonker, and in this game, Jonk replaced not Makelele or Lampard, he had to appear in a new combination with Thiago and Lampard.

No one understood such a bizarre midfield combination, and the media had pointed out before the game that Mourinho was messing around.

The battle with Liverpool is likely to destroy all the confidence accumulated before, give up attacking in the middle, and use it entirely for defense, in the most terrifying home stadium of the Anfield Premier League, they can keep the points, and all that awaits them is a fat beating.

Maybe Wenger and Ferguson are snickering!

Perhaps it is the five-point advantage that makes Chelsea people have the capital to be proud of, so in the face of a hard role like Liverpool, the Blues seem to have a "must win" argument, and coach Munirio even "arrogantly" hinted: "I believe that after this game, the gap between us and Arsenal can only be widened or maintained, and it will never be narrowed." ”

When confronted by the media, the Chelsea man gave the opposite of what the media said!

Anfield was quite quiet before the duel due to the opposition's performances this season, and Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez even said in an interview with Sky TV: "We don't care about the result of this game, the team is in good form at the moment, and if we maintain this form, it will naturally lead to a good result." But the opponents are top of the league and they are very difficult to beat now, so I told my players to forget who they are and play with their usual mentality. ”

In contrast, Chelsea, who need to be reinforced, are much more high-profile, captain Frank Lampard will face his close comrade-in-arms in the national team, Steven Gerrard, who has become captain and vice-captain of the national team after Becky is no longer captain, and of course more importantly, they are now the best midfielders on the planet.

'Stephen [Gerrard] is the best, but I used to tell him that a team with only one player like him is never strong. Frank Lampard said before the game that Chelsea would win the game because, according to his theory, his squad "has at least five players and is one of the best players in the world in their respective positions." ”

Boasting one of the best defence in the league, having conceded just eight goals in the league so far, Blues goalkeeper Petr Cech has been one of the happiest and best performers in Europe this season, and he stressed before the game that his side only need to score: "Defence is not going to be a problem, it's about scoring goals and then we can win, and this season seems to have been proving." ”

However, he did not forget that Chelsea's only league campaign of the season was a losing one, when they were planted at Manchester City and only picked up a point, "It was just an accident and we haven't made such a mistake in the league since then, which proves that we have learned our lesson." ”

Many media wanted to hear what Jonker would say before the game, but the Chelsea no.25 did not reveal anything to the media before the game, and even played hide and seek with media reporters to deliberately hide his own guilt. (To be continued......)