Sport

Chelsea v Derby

14 April 2012

(3pm, Stamford Bridge).
Tickets: £25 - West Stand restricted view only. Tel. 020 7386 7799
Last season: 4 (Zola, Poyet, Di Matteo, Flo) 0
Fact: Derby have lost on each of their past five visits to Stamford Bridge. The visitors have kept clean sheets in four of their last five Premiership games
Recommended pub: Shed Bar (Chelsea Village Complex)
A few thousand eyebrows arched upwards when Marcel Desailly reckoned Chelsea, unconvincing winners over Manchester City, could still make the Champions League next season. The words cloud and cuckoo-land sprang to mind but the Frenchman's prediction may not be so outlandish. Assuming, as we must, that the Blues dispose of lowly Derby tomorrow, that would put them in mid-table and, with winnable matches against Middlesbrough, Bradford and Ipswich coming up, Claudio Ranieri and his team could be in the top six by Christmas. That's the theory, anyway.
VERDICT: BLUES ON THE MOVE

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