Alan Shearer: ‘An unimaginable battle’ – why Premier League top-five race is ‘inconceivable to name’

It’s arduous sufficient to foretell leads to the Premier League anyway, however at this stage of the season it’s much more tough.

every membership’s remaining video games now does not actually assist in deciding what would possibly occur, as a result of a few of the groups they face could have totally different priorities, or nothing to play for full-stop.

Chelsea’s recreation in opposition to Liverpool on 4 Might is an efficient instance of that. Liverpool can clinch the Premier League title subsequent weekend, after they play Tottenham, and we do not know what their perspective will probably be like after that.

You’ll be able to’t blame Arne Slot’s facet in the event that they go to Stamford Bridge after they’ve simply develop into champions and they don’t seem to be fairly at it, but when that is the case then it undoubtedly helps Chelsea’s trigger.

Additional down the road, the same state of affairs may gain advantage Newcastle, who face Arsenal of their penultimate recreation when the Gunners might need a Champions League remaining to stay up for.

It is the identical for anybody who performs Manchester United and Tottenham earlier than the top of the season too, as a result of the Europa League is their precedence now.

Even with that in thoughts, although, I nonetheless take a look at Chelsea’s fixtures as being among the many hardest, simply because they have to journey to 2 of their rivals, Newcastle and Forest, as a part of their run-in.

That is why it was an enormous end result for them to show issues round in opposition to Fulham, notably as a result of there appears to be some unrest amongst their followers and points with a few of their key gamers.