Now that the top 5 leagues across Europe are all completed or just one game away from being done, it’s great fun to look at FBRef’s combined Big 5 table and work out how Chelsea rank against their peers across the continent.
Given that this is how the Champions League is going to work next season (more or less), a big league table of all the best teams in Europe, it’s like a little preview of that. Chelsea won’t be in the Champions League of course, they’ll be in the Europa League or the Conference League depending on the FA Cup final result.
That seems fair, given they’re ranked as the 26th best side in the big 5 by points per game. By xG per game we’re way up in 17th, showing once again how much some improved finishing could help us next year. Our xG difference also has us in 17th, showing that basically some bad finishing and some soft goals conceded caused us to suffer pretty badly – the different between 26th and 17th on a scale of 96 total teams is pretty immense if you think about it.
