Petr Cech says Chelsea have enjoyed a ‘brilliant’ start to the campaign and believes it will ‘not be a two-horse race’ for the title with Manchester City, Liverpool and West Ham all also impressing in the Premier League.
Chelsea have won eight of their 11 league matches this season to emerge as the early pace-setters in the Premier League, sitting three points ahead of Man City during the international break.
Pep Guardiola’s side have lost twice this campaign but have also played some of the best football in England, outclassing Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in September and also dominating Manchester United last week.
Asked about Chelsea’s start to the campaign and the title race, Cech told talkSPORT: ‘We’ve been having a brilliant season. ‘The coaching stuff has done a great job because we had a lot of players on international duty and pre-season was really affected by that.
‘To be in the position we are now, it’s great credit to everyone. It has been a great pleasure to watch every game in the Premier League, there has been great drama and everybody can beat everybody. ‘It will not be a two-horse race for the title.’
Chelsea could have been five points clear during the break but dropped two points in a 1-1 draw with Burnley on Saturday. Tuchel said Sean Dyche’s team were ‘lucky’ to ‘steal a point’ but was still happy with his team’s ‘fantastic’ performance.
‘It was a fantastic 90 minutes when you look at performance. It can only happen in football,’ the German boss said. ‘That’s why everyone loves the game – a team can steal a point if the other team forgets to score the goals they deserve. We did a fantastic match.
‘Of course I’m disappointed. If we played this game 100 times, we’d win 99 times. Today we didn’t win it. The second goal would have decided it. It’s always possible you miss one ball, one cross, and this can happen.
‘It’s our fault. We should have scored. We created so many chances. You have the opponent where you want to have them. You create so many chances.
‘We let them believe it was possible to steal a point by pure luck and that’s what happened.
‘This is not the first game like this and won’t be the last. I was impressed by the performance, the attitude, the quality. It’s football, it was against us today.’
