Chelsea’s phenomenal workload this season may never be repeated without more Tuchel miracles | OneFootball

Chelsea’s win in the FA Cup semi final yesterday means that the Blues will now play in 63 games this season.

That’s from a potential 66 – the only games they will end up missing out on that they could have played in are the two legs of the Champions League semi finals and the final itself, having lost to Real Madrid in the quarters.

Thomas Tuchel’s team got to the League Cup final, and they will now compete in the FA Cup final – both matches against Liverpool, who are the only side in Europe who can match Chelsea’s pure quantity of fixtures this season – although the two games at the Club World Cup and the UEFA Super Cup take us beyond even them.

63 is a quite incredible quantity of games, and given we have had pretty solid injury and Covid issues all year, it’s a truly phenomenal achievement from the players physically and from the coaching staff and logistics teams that get them around the world and ready to play, week in week out.

Punters who like a gamble on Chelsea will have their work cut out, and whatever betting site they use for the following sports events will have seen plenty of activity from them as they back Tuchel’s team all season.

If you’d done just that, you’d have made good money – Chelsea have lost just 6 of those games. Just putting a fiver down on your team every week like most fans do would have seen you deep into profit by now – and there are still plenty of games left to double down.

The way that the minutes have been managed around the squad is truly impressive, showing a high level of planning and top tier medical work as the various club physios have had to work around the clock to keep everyone as fresh and fit as possible, in the most difficult possible circumstances.

When you think back to that lineup we put out against Brentford in the EFL Cup in January, it’s pretty mind blowing we’ve come this far.

Next season we should have a refreshed squad with plenty more margin for error and plenty more options even if we play as many games as this time around – and the chances are that we won’t. Things would have to go incredible well for us to even come close – but with Thomas Tuchel in charge we couldn’t rule it out.