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They won 9 of their first 10 Premier League games this season only losing at Man City but since the beginning of November they have won only 2 of the next ten and have fallen from top to 5th and are 9 points adrift of leaders Man Utd. The current form tables show Chelsea having just 7 points from the last 8 games, that’s 2 less than Wolves over the same period. A positive for the Blues is the return to match fitness of Frank Lampard and they will be just about full strenghth for this game. But I always felt when they were steamrolling everyone at the start of the season that they were reliant on the brilliance of Drogba and his standards have fallen in the last couple of months, partly due to illness, and Chelsea look less formidable as a result.
Wolves have a WLWLWL record over the last six games so a win would maintain that up and down record but you have to go back to January 1983 for their last success against Chelsea and regardless of the form of their opponents this is still a massive challenge at a time when points are needed to keep up with the pack. Being 4 points off 13th means the situation is very much recoverable at the moment but this is the first of 6 very difficult games and they will do well to be as close to some of the teams above them in February. Albion’s defeat on Tuesday brings them closer to the drop zone and although Birmingham’s win at Blackpool has helped them there is still time for the tangerines, who have a big fixture backlog, to drop into trouble.
Surprise boost for Wolves this week was that Kevin Doyle returns to the squad for the Chelsea game and Karl Henry is likely to return in Saturday’s cup game at Doncaster with Craddock also set to retutn to action within a fortnight. Whether Doyle will start tonight is questionable but if he does that is likely to see Stephen Ward move from striker to left back. Barring any fatigue from the run of 4 games in a fortnight that is likely to be the only change to the line up unless McCarthy looks for the security of a 5 man midfield against the champions and that could see Edwards back in with Doyle or Ebanks Blake playing the lone striker role.
A point tonight would be very welcome, a win would be fantastic and would doubtless grab all the headlines, and probable spell trouble for Ancellotti. But any result would be a big boost for McCarthy as he tries to keep Wolves in the top flight in a fight that is likely to be still rumbling in until May.
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