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Best-ever Chelsea PL team?
- Updated: January 4, 2017
Are Antonio Conte’s Chelsea better than the Blues’ previous Premier League title-winning sides? We check the stats to find out.
Chelsea face Tottenham at White Hart Lane live on Sky Sports 1 on Wednesday from 7.30pm – the reverse fixture of last season’s Battle of the Bridge, which produced 12 yellow cards and ended 2-2 to crown Leicester champions.
The Blues were battling for nothing more than pride last May but this term they find themselves on a 13-game winning streak and top of the Premier League.
How does Antonio Conte’s team compare to Chelsea’s four previous Premier League title-winning teams in 2004/05, 2005/06, 2009/10 and 2014/15? We have ranked each team for a range of stats to find out…
Defence
Antonio Conte’s side only kept one clean sheet from their first six league games this season until they changed to a 3-4-3 formation against Hull in October. Since then, Thibaut Courtois has registered 10 clean sheets from 13 games.
Indeed, that form now means Conte’s Chelsea have a clean sheet ratio which is only bettered by their 2004/05 title-winning side during Jose Mourinho’s first season in charge at Stamford Bridge – a side which only conceded 15 goals and kept 25 clean sheets.
However, in terms of goals against, …
