What it would take for Todd Boehly's Chelsea to be relegated from the Premier League

With 39 points in the bank, Chelsea should have enough to stay up ... probably

Are Chelsea too good to go down? It is a question generally reserved for West Ham United but given the travails that Stamford Bridge has witnessed in the last few weeks, including losing to Brentford on Wednesday, it is suddenly not an entirely unreasonable question to ask, so long as you do it with your tongue firmly planted in your cheek.

Because the answer of course is yes, they are much too good to be relegated. They are, or at least were under Graham Potter, a better team than their results suggested even if a points tally that reflected their underlying numbers would not be good enough for a club where expectations are never less than stratospheric. Since the World Cup, Chelsea have 26.6 expected goals (xG) to their name and have allowed shots worth a combined 19.2. Rank the Premier League by xG difference and Chelsea are sixth, between Newcastle and Brentford.

Rank the division by actual points won and the Blues sit 13th averaging exactly a point per game over their last 18, no wonder when this team has scored 13 goals and conceded 18. Over the course of a whole season that would give Chelsea just about enough points to scrape by but probably only with a few squeaky bum moments in the spring months.