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Due to the size and quality of Chelsea’s squad, you would expect it to almost be a certainty that the Blues will improve on their current league position of 10th place, as they have won just eight of their opening 19 league games this season.

Getting into the top six won’t be as easy as it sounds on paper though, due to the reemergence of Leicester City in the last couple of seasons, as well as the likes of sixth-placed Tottenham Hotspur having a game in hand on the Stamford Bridge club. Seventh place Everton who are three points ahead of Chelsea also have two games in hand on Tuchel’s side.

If Chelsea are to get into the top six of the Premier League then the German will have to make a quick start to life at Stamford Bridge and very few points can be dropped for the next couple of weeks.

Chelsea to finish in the top six in the Premier League is priced at 1/2.

Tottenham have been inconsistent in the league since the festive period dropping points to the likes of Crystal Palace, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Fulham and even suffered damaging defeats to the likes of Liverpool and Leicester City which saw early title challenge discussions dismissed.

However, Spurs currently stand four points above Chelsea with a game in hand and have already been to Stamford Bridge this season in the league, drawing 0-0 in November, so Chelsea may end up being reliant on getting a positive result at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium if they are to finish ahead of their London rivals.

Chelsea are yet to beat any of the stereotypical big six this season, having drawn two and lost the other three meetings they have had.

Tuchel’s side are priced at 11/8 to finish ahead of Tottenham Hotspur this season.

Chelsea are currently six points off West Ham United who currently sit in fourth ahead of the Blues match against Wolves tonight at the Bridge.

As mentioned above, due to the sheer amount of teams that currently sit ahead of the Blues in the table with games in hand, it will be a tough ask for Tuchel to get Chelsea back into the top four. Doing so will require the German to have a rapid start as manager, as well as drastically improving the west London club’s record against teams above them. Right now, the Blues have only beaten West Ham United out of the nine teams above them which was back in mid-December in a 3-0 home win.

Chelsea to finish in the top four is priced at 9/4.

In the 2019/20 season, Manchester United finished ahead of Chelsea on goal difference, as both sides qualified for the Champions League in third and fourth place respectively on 66 points.

But, prior to the start of the season, Chelsea were tipped as one of the favourites for the league title, following a £220m spending spree which saw the likes of Edouard Mendy, Thiago Silva, Ben Chilwell, Kai Havertz, Hakim Ziyech and Timo Werner move to Stamford Bridge.

This will be a huge ask for Chelsea, as they currently sit 11 points behind Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side who look to be going from strength to strength in their quest to win the league title for the first time since 2013.

Chelsea still have to play United at the Bridge on 28th February which could be a crucial fixture if they are to stand a chance of catching the Red Devils, however, the Blues haven’t beaten the Old Trafford club in the league since November 2017, when they won 1-0 at the Bridge thanks to an Alvaro Morata header.

Chelsea to finish ahead of Manchester United is priced at 9/2.

Tuchel realistically only has two opportunities to win a trophy with Chelsea this season, of which one is the Champions League, whilst the other is the FA Cup.

The former PSG manager took the Parisians to the final of the Champions League last season, where his side fell short to eventual champions Bayern Munich, who won the game 1-0 via a Kingsley Coman goal. Chelsea have only ever been to two Champions League finals in their history, which came in 2008 and 2012 under Avram Grant and Roberto Di Matteo, who ironically had both replaced managers part way through each season in Jose Mourinho and Andre Villas-Boas.

Chelsea face a very tough test in the round of 16, as they face La Liga leaders Atletico Madrid, who are currently seven points clear of second-place Real Madrid with a game in hand, having only conceded eight goals in 18 league games so far this season.

Meanwhile, they face Barnsley at Oakwell in the fifth round of the FA Cup on 10th February, and having lost in the final of that competition to Arsenal last season, Chelsea will be desperate to go one better this campaign.

The Stamford Bridge club are priced at 9/2 to win a trophy this season.

Chelsea are third favourites to win the FA Cup at present, only behind the two Manchester clubs. This could be down to United knocking out Liverpool in the last round, as well as Tottenham facing a tricky test away at Goodison Park where they face Everton in the next round of the cup.

The Blues have a good record of making it to the final of the FA Cup, having made it to seven in the last 14 seasons. They last won the competition in 2018 when they beat United 1-0 at Wembley, courtesy of an Eden Hazard penalty.

Chelsea are priced at 13/2 to win the FA Cup this season.

Tuchel will know that he will have to get off to a good start in the Premier League if he is going to salvage Chelsea’s season. His first five league fixtures are Wolves and Burnley at home with the first of the two being played tonight, before then facing a tricky test away at Tottenham where the Blues did win 2-0 last time out in the league thanks to a Willian brace, before playing the likes of Sheffield United away and Newcastle at the Bridge.

The two standout fixtures in the German’s first five league matches as Chelsea manager are Wolves at home and Tottenham away, as Wolves have already beaten the Blues this season at Molineux thanks to a stoppage-time winner by Pedro Neto. Whilst Spurs are ahead of Chelsea in the Premier League as mentioned above, and former Blues manager Mourinho will be determined to make sure that they still remain there at the end of the season.

Tuchel to win his first five Premier League games in charge of Chelsea has the odds of 9/1 to happen.