Graham Potter’s reign as Chelsea manager appears to be pending a threat.
In fact, it seems that this thread should have been cut after yesterday’s defeat against Southampton. However, Coach still holds on, and now that the dust has settled on his latest embarrassing loss, it looks like he’s going to get another chance, or maybe more.
Either way, next month’s home game against Dortmund in the Champions League will be critical. Turning that around will give you a huge boost to your credibility, and keeping the European dream alive, even if we end up knocked out by the first big team we face, might be your best platform to stay the execution, or even to lay the foundations for a longer-term project.
Fans, whether professional or anti-Potter, will be glued to that game either way. Some will be watching on TV and some will be using ExpressVPN to stream the Champions League, but whatever your viewing method, the result will be everything you’re looking for.
We were unlucky in Germany, and if Potter is sacked, he will one day look back on the way his team created as much without scoring as when the squad was raised.
But it looks like they will at least have a chance to go back to the average in the second leg. Angry home fans booed him and his team yesterday, but the atmosphere will be electric at the Bridge for that night’s game no matter what happens in the games between now and then.
At the very least, the stadium will roar for your team from the start; the duration of the backup will, of course, depend on events in the field.
The most impressive results in the former Brighton manager’s first months in charge came against AC Milan in the group stage, and it was the wins in those games that got us this far.
Potter has games against Tottenham and Leeds before we face Dortmund, two games with derby energy that could decide everything.
Winning both and suddenly our pride and form are restored, and we come into that game on a positive wave, ready to right the wrongs of the first leg.
Lose both and the opposite is true: We will be plumbing new depths of despair, and at that point even the board support that has been so generous up to this point could begin to evaporate.
