Chelsea, a "unpopular team" who can only win the championship, is there any chance for the Champions League in the new season?

The 2025-2026 season of the Champions League will rekindle the battle and start the competition for the new season. For the Champions League in the new season, the most popular fans are undoubtedly the predictions of the final champion team.

After all, after the big purchases or changes in the summer window of 2025, the strength of major clubs has actually improved or changed a lot at this time - just like Liverpool and Arsenal; of course, there are also situations where giants such as Paris, Bayern and Inter Milan have not made too many signings in the summer window and continue to rely on their existing strength to pursue the Champions League.

But everyone will also find that when the outside world discusses the championship team, they often do not "bring" Chelsea, which has won the championship twice before and won the Club World Cup this summer.

If that's the case, maybe we can try to focus on this Blues to see if they will surprise all fans again!

Chelsea's schedule this season is very similar to the situation of winning the championship for the first time in the team's history - they will all meet Napoli. Barcelona and Bayern

In fact, after the draw results of the Champions League stage were determined, ESPN discovered that Chelsea's journey in the new season was surprisingly similar to the winning path of the 2011-2012 season - Chelsea in the November 12 season defeated Napoli in the knockout stage, Barcelona and Bayern respectively to complete the final championship;

And among the eight opponents in this season's league stage, Chelsea will meet their old opponents in the November 11/12 season again in the first game (Bayern), round 5 (Barcelona) and round 8 (Napoli).

Does such the same path or schedule mean that Chelsea will create miracles this year?

Judging from the results of Chelsea's Champions League draw this season, they undoubtedly have the possibility of winning the top 8 and passing the knockout round. After all, among their opponents, except for Bayern and Barcelona, ​​it seems that other opponents may all score 3 points - Chelsea will undoubtedly be the winner of the game against Karabach, Paphos and even Ajax. This also ensures their points from one side, which will hopefully allow the team to go straight to the knockout stage without going through the "torture" of the playoffs.

But the problem is that Chelsea has a curse: their winnings often only happens when they are not optimistic!

Looking back on whether it is the Club World Cup this summer, the previous two Champions Leagues and even the UEFA Cup, Chelsea is indeed not the most favored team among all participating teams that season. Take the two Champions League championships to see - they were not opponents of Emperor Saren in the November 12 season at all. But the result is that Di Matteo led Chelsea to create miracles all the way. After reversing Napoli, he defeated Benfica twice and advanced to the finals after 1 win and 1 draw against Barcelona. Even though the wounded soldiers were all over the camp in the final, they finally won the penalty kick and won the first championship in the team's history;

and 20/21 were also magical. Chelsea, who only completed the change of coach in the second half of the season, had 5 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss in the knockout stage. Not only did they defeat Atletico Madrid twice, they also won 1 win and 1 draw against Real Madrid, but they finally defeated the powerful Manchester City in the final and won the championship.

But will Chelsea still have such a miracle in the new season? Judging from the historical rules, they need to be unpopular before the game, and the team needs to change coaches in the middle!

But Maresca is currently unbeaten with 2 wins and 2 draws in the Premier League. There must be a reasonable reason to change coaches, right?

Judging from the media's predictions for the new season of the Champions League, it is actually "not conducive to" Chelsea's final victory - because they seem to have become a popular team

Opta released the Champions League prediction on September 9, Chelsea's probability of winning is second only to Liverpool, five teams, Arsenal, Paris and Manchester City and Barcelona, ​​and also surpassed the three giants including Real Madrid, Bayern and Inter Milan.

If you recall the November 12 and 20/21 seasons, perhaps the former Chelsea would not have such high expectations before the game;

In the latest Champions League odds released by CBS, Chelsea is also the top eight favorite team to win the championship. As for the ones ahead of them, teams such as Liverpool and Barcelona are also teams.

Is this a good thing?

In this summer's Club World Cup prediction, although Chelsea also ranked 6th in the top spot in the championship, the problem is that there is no participation from Arsenal and Barcelona in this event, otherwise Chelsea's ranking will definitely be lower. In addition, the distribution of participating teams in the Club World Cup is too widespread, which actually makes the final winning team only focus on the European continent!

Therefore, for Chelsea, which has been regarded as a relatively popular champion in the 25/26 season, perhaps they will no longer be able to create miracles in the new season. A simple truth is that they were not favored in the past because their opponents would despise them. But when the team can win Paris in the Club World Cup, who will still underestimate Chelsea?

Once Chelsea is not "slapped" and is taken seriously, it will inevitably create impossible possibilities, which will greatly reduce!