Alan Shearer
Premier League winning striker for BBC Sport
It is hard enough to predict results in the Premier League anyway, but at this stage of the season it is even more difficult.
Chelsea’s game against Liverpool on 4 May is a good example of that. Liverpool can clinch the Premier League title next weekend, when they play Tottenham, and we don’t know what their attitude will be like after that.
Even with that in mind, though, I still look at Chelsea’s fixtures as being among the toughest, just because they have got to travel to two of their rivals, Newcastle and Forest, as part of their run-in.
It’s a good sign that they still got the result they needed at Craven Cottage but they only got back into the game when Tyrique George came on with about 12 minutes to go – they would not have won the game without him.
Nicolas Jackson has not scored since mid-December but their main man is Cole Palmer and, for several weeks now, he has not been firing at all.
They got the job done on Sunday because a young kid came off the bench to rescue them, but you have to think that to make the top five they will have to get Palmer scoring again.
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