Watch out, Chelsea!

(Baonghean.vn) - With a crushing 0-3 defeat to AS Roma, coach Conte and his team have made things difficult for themselves in the battle for one of the two tickets to the knockout round of Group C. Both the past and present are against Chelsea.

After 4 matches in Group C, the English team is temporarily in 2nd place with 7 points - 4 and 5 points more than the 2 teams behind, Atletico Madrid and Karabakh, respectively. With that gap, Chelsea is the team with the most chances after AS Roma to win the 2nd ticket to the knockout round when there are only 2 matches left until the Champions League group stage ends.

In theory, coach Conte and his team only need to win one more match to comfortably enter the knockout round. The task is not too difficult with Chelsea's strength.

However, football always contains surprises. The possibility of Hazard and his teammates being eliminated in the group stage is still not small. Based on the current situation of Group C, AS Roma is almost certain to win a place in the next round, the remaining place is the competition between Chelsea - Atletico Madrid - Karabakh.

Therefore, if Coach Conte and his team want to continue in the Champions League, they must at least get 3 points against Atletico Madrid or Karabakh. Losing both of those matches, of course, Chelsea will be eliminated.

Chelsea players show their disappointment at AS Roma's Olympico stadium. Photo: Internet

In the past, the team at Stamford Bridge had to taste such bitterness. Remember in the group stage of the Champions League season 2012/2013, Chelsea, the defending champion of the tournament, was in the same group with Juventus, Shakhtar Donetsh and Nordsjealland.

Until the 5th round, The Blue still held the right to decide the ticket to the knockout round, when they had 7 points like Shakhtar Donetsh and 1 point more than Juventus (the Italian team had 6 points). However, the 0-3 loss to main rival Juventus forced Chelsea to accept the 3rd place overall, and had to play in the Europa League.

Although the London team later won the championship in Europe's second-tier tournament, Chelsea fans still could not overcome the bitterness of being eliminated in the Champions League group stage, as the defending champions.

Surely at this moment, Chelsea fans are feeling afraid that the tragedy of the past will repeat itself for their team. Indeed, with what has been happening at Stamford Bridge recently, Coach Conte and his team can completely make the same mistake as Chelsea did in the group stage of the Champions League in the 2012/2013 season.

Coach Conte and Juventus were eliminated in the group stage of the 2013/2014 Champions League. Photo: Internet

The 0-3 defeat against another Italian team, AS Roma, was like an alarm bell for Hazard and his teammates. Another noteworthy detail is that coach Conte is not a successful strategist in the Champions League.

When he was still leading Juventus, Conte once led this team to be eliminated right in the group stage. That was the 2013/2014 season, the "Old Lady of Turin" was in the same group with Real Madrid, Galatasaray and Copenhagen. After 6 matches, Juventus had to watch Galatasaray follow Real Madrid into the next round.

Although he helped Juventus win domestic titles (3 Scudetto, 2 Supercoppa Italia), coach Conte has continuously left disappointments in European cup competitions.

Juventus's "smart at home, stupid at market" disease in the period 2012 - 2014 is a low point in the glorious career of the strategist born in 1969. It seems that this bad thing is still haunting Coach Conte, Chelsea's two disappointing matches against AS Roma recently (draw 3-3 and lose 0-3), are typical evidence.

If Chelsea cannot quickly return to the winning track, the prospect of this team being eliminated early in the Champions League group stage is clear as day. At that time, Conte's seat at Stamford Bridge will also be difficult to keep. This is a red alert for Coach Conte and Chelsea. The lessons of the past are still very hot./.

Thanh Hung