Chelsea are now just four points behind Premier League leaders Liverpool.
Gary Lineker has given his opinion on Chelsea 's unexpected Premier League title challenge this season but Alan Shearer doesn't agree with his fellow pundit.Many experts predicted the Stamford Bridge club would struggle this season after a sixth-place finish in the 2023/24 campaign.
He said: "Have we reached the point now… because Chelsea are massively overperforming compared to what all of us thought, have we reached the point… if we go back a few months, or even a year or two, we were all going 'What are the owners doing? They're buying these players, they're spending a fortune, they're giving them these incredibly long contracts, an extraordinarily large squad.
"At the moment it is starting to look that way. The appointment of Maresca was a really clever one, I think he has done an incredible job under not easy circumstances."However, his fellow podcast host Shearer isn't so sure Chelsea are genuine title challengers and believes things could get tougher for Maresca as the season progresses.
"At the minute, where they're basically changing their XI for the cup games, it will become more difficult when you play in the latter stages of the season in the bigger games."Chelsea next face Astana in the Europa League on Thursday, with Maresca once again expected to rotate his squad against the Kazakh side.Rory O'Callaghan is Editorial Lead at SPORTbible. He has previously worked for Sky Sports News, MailOnline and Reach covering football, cricket, boxing and MMA.
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