But just who at the end of this topsy-turby season will be entering Europe's elite competition? The sacking of Juan Mata lookalike Andre Villas-Boas, may have plunged Chelsea into almost a season destroying crisis, and with seasoned players Lampard, Drogba and Terry struggling to have any impact these days, it seems a pretty big hill to climb for the boys in blue.
However crossing over to the red side of North London, things for once are starting to look up for Arsenal. With back to back victories over Liverpool and Tottenham, and talisman Robin Van Persie scoring goals for fun, it would seem that after a season of 8-2 thrashings that Arsenal could be in the driving seat to achieve fourth place; not many of us would have said that 6 months ago.
The big worry for Chelsea fans though has to be there lack of goals. For me without the £23.5 million signing of Juan Mata, Chelsea would be struggling for even the Europa League places, as the little Spanish wizard has fitted into a blue shirt like a hand fits into a glove. Apart from that and maybe a handful of fine performances from Daniel Sturridge where is the rest of Chelsea's threat going forward? Fernando Torres? Clearly not.
For me with Arsenal's Dutch goal-scoring machine up front this could secure them that fourth Champions League place, because Chelsea no longer have their tight defence with David Luiz and Gary Cahill not looking up to scratch in any shape or form. Even though Arsenal's defence may at times have more gaps than most, there threat going forward and there ever improving form, could be the deciders on what is going to be one hell of a battle.
The Key Game: Arsenal vs Chelsea 21 April 2012: This game could be the decider, and Chelsea will find it mighty hard to scrape much at the Emirates.
Who would you rather have in the battle for fourth place? Goalscoring could be the key factor.
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