Successful with Champions League, Christian Pulisic Talks about Chelsea’s Chances of Winning This Season

DBasia.news – Christian Pulisic talks about Chelsea’s chances of winning any trophy in the 2021-2022 season after winning the Champions League trophy last season.

Chelsea are the defending champions of the Champions League and won it brilliantly last season, because before a 1-0 win over Manchester City in the final, Chelsea had changed coaches from Frank Lampard to Thomas Tuchel.

After spending a lot of time signing top names like Kai Havertz, Timo Werner and Hakim Ziyech last season, Chelsea are currently still relatively passive and have only been linked with Sevilla defender Jules Kunde.

However Pulisic sees his team’s squad is already good at this time and has confidence after winning the Champions League last season.

“I don’t know if it (confidence) is gone or not, but last season it was a fantastic achievement. It started to affect us – it gave us a lot of confidence,” Pulisic told Standard Sport.

The chance of winning the local double winners, the Premier League and the FA Cup, is also targeted by Pulisic to be achieved by Chelsea. The benchmark can be seen when Chelsea are often troublesome and even beat Pep Guardiola’s Man City.

“To become European champions, it’s not an easy journey. We’ve seen now that we can compete with those top teams, so there’s no reason why we don’t feel that way,” Pulisic added.

“They (City) were one of the best teams last season and beating them a few times gave us confidence. We have such a strong squad, so I would say anything is possible (including winning the double winners).”

Chelsea is one of the Premier League teams with a good squad depth. In midfield to attack, they already have Mason Mount, Werner, Ziyech, Callum Hudson-Odoi, Havertz, to Ruben Loftus-Cheek who returned from a loan period.

Competitive competition is healthy for internal Chelsea, especially they will wade through a dense competition in the new season. Pulisic was challenged to win a regular place to play at Chelsea.

“That’s the great thing about our team, that we have so much depth and so many strong players. We have so many games that you will get your time, so it’s just about making the most of your chances,” added Pulisic.

Last season Pulisic had difficulty appearing regularly because he was unable to compete and was not fit after recovering from injury. No doubt this season he had a fit target from the start of the season.

“Staying healthy is definitely a big goal of mine, and trying to be available as much as I can to continue to help my team and make a big impact.”