Mauricio Pochettino has just three games to transform Chelsea's fortunes before welcoming Arsenal to Stamford Bridge. The Blues have endured a miserable start to the Premier League season, winning just one of their five opening games.
Following the west Londoners' goalless draw against Bournemouth, Pochettino insisted that the 12 first-team injuries have been difficult to juggle. The Chelsea boss said: «We don't have all the squad available from the beginning of the season. What can we do? For me, I have nothing to say.
»The fans can do whatever they want. We know what we need to do, we are strong in our belief. We have had bad luck. We had 12 injured (out) today, plus Noni [Madueke], [Marc] Cucurella and [Moises] Caicedo. Then we have three, four young guys and two keepers on the bench.
«Okay am I going to cry, am I going to complain? I need to accept this, the challenge and keep being positive. Of course, Bournemouth is a good team and is going to compete. Every team is going to compete and be difficult.
»Fair or not fair, that is the circumstance we need to accept and we need to be positive, and patient. We are not going to change in the way we are doing things and then we have our opinion, our reality.
«We assess the team and in our opinion, our reality, in our circumstance, we are doing very, very good things, more than people can expect. But Chelsea's expectation is to win.»
So, with that being said, football.london has taken a look at Chelsea's upcoming fixtures and how they compare to their rivals.
Aston Villa (H) — Saturday, September 23
A big test awaits for Chelsea following the fixture against Bournemouth. Pochettino's side welcome Aston Villa to Stamford Bridge with Unai Emery's side predicted to challenge for a
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