Rafa Benitez insists Chelsea can still win Premier League title

By blue admin On Dec 8, 2012

Chelsea interim manager Rafa Benitez believes Chelsea can win this seasons Premier League title, regardless of the 10-point gap that has emerged.

Manchester United meet second-place Man City tomorrow, and Chelsea will need to beat Sunderland to gain ground on at least one of their rivals.

“I’m not worried about the distance. It’s important we win so we are close, but all we can do is think about one game at a time,” Benitez said.

“We have to improve the team and be mentally strong enough to compete in the second part of the league.

“At Valencia we were eight points behind in January. If we have to do the same here, we will do it. But we have to show the same character we have.

“The main thing is about the evolution of our team. If we’re stronger, we’ll be able to win games in a row. We have to find form.”

“Flying to the other side of the world isn’t beneficial, but can we change the situation? No, You take the positives out of it which is I’ll spend the time with the players. Maybe it’ll be negative and they’ll be boring!

“No, we will work with it. It’s not ideal. You’d like to train for a week and train with intensity, but this is what we have.”

Rafa added that the game against Sunderland will come to soon to start Frank Lampard, adding: “It’s been too long out for him. He needs to come back little by little. He cannot start a game now.

“Lampard can find players between the lines, get into the box, score goals. So he’s a different kind of midfielder to those we have at the moment.

“The ones we have can do a bit of everything, working, but he adds something.

“He cannot be box to box like 10 years ago, but he’ll be important in possession to understand the game.”

Right now, I wouldn’t personally say that we we’re still in the title race, but come the end of the season, we could be. Chelsea need to gain some confidence game by game, and I understand that Benitez has to keep his players attitudes positive on the subject. Do you think we can still win the PL?