Chelsea vs rest: Gap wider than one point

Chelsea have the statistical proof that their third Premier League title in six years was fully deserved,scoring a record 103 times for a goal difference of 71 and winning all six games against there big three traditional rivals.

Chelsea have the statistical proof that their third Premier League title in six years was fully deserved,scoring a record 103 times for a goal difference of 71 and winning all six games against there big three traditional rivals.

Chelsea finished the season with an 8-0 thrashing of Wigan on Sunday to become the first Premier League team to score a century of goals and the first in topflight football since Tottenham in 1963. And behind those figures was the impressive way Chelsea did it.

While Jose Mourinhos two title-winning teams,in 2005 and 06,were pragmatic rather than stylish,Carlo Ancelotti marked his first season in English football by creating a Chelsea team that blew away many of its opponents with a swagger even if they only edged Manchester United by one point in the championship standings.

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Since Mourinho guided Chelsea to its first league title for half a century,Chelsea have had a succession of coaches to try and wrest the title back from Manchester United,who had won it three seasons in a row.

It looked as if the balance of Premier League power had swung back to Old Trafford. But Chelsea,from a fashionable part of West London,are now hot favorite to complete the rare league and cup double.

Chelsea faces the Premier Leagues last-place team,Portsmouth,in next weekends FA Cup final at Wembley.

We can win a double and,if we do,it will be a very good achievement,a first for the club and a piece of history, Ancelotti said.

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If Chelsea add the FA Cup to their third Premier League triumph,the club will have won 11 domestic trophies from 1997 onward.

In his first season in England,it would have been easy for Ancelotti to become distracted by the mind games played by rival coaches. But the man who led AC Milan to two Champions League titles lifted the pressure off himself and his players by making as few changes as possible from the squad he had inherited from the previous men in charge at Stamford Bridge.