This encapsulated Chelsea’s bizarre campaign of extremes. There had been heckles from the home support as the players retired at the interval with the hosts fortunate still to be level, all the festering doubts over Maurizio Sarri’s stewardship exposed yet again, only for those jeers to be choked within the opening few minutes of the re-start by a taunting of Tottenham Hotspur. The Italian’s team ended the afternoon in third place, having leapfrogged Spurs, and one win from Champions League qualification.
The doubts will resurface while this team’s displays veer from the sublime to the ridiculous so regularly, but Chelsea are still likely to achieve their season’s objectives of a return to Europe’s elite competition. Watford, such awkward opponents and the dominant force through a one-sided opening period, were dismissed in those frantic exchanges at the start of the second half with a difficult occasion suddenly transformed into something of a breeze. Sarri even threw on Gary Cahill for a first appearance since November for the final few minutes, granting the club captain the send-off he deserves after a glittering career in these parts.
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