“Consistency” was the phrase repeatedly utilized by Bompastor to sum up Chelsea’s marketing campaign but it surely has not been straightforward.
With the previous Lyon boss moving into the massive footwear left by Emma Hayes, the squad went by means of what they described as a “transitional season”, bedding in new gamers and adapting to the brand new supervisor’s type and training strategies.
Hayes herself was one of many first to congratulate Chelsea, posting on Instagram that their achievements had been “so, so deserved”.
The outcomes had been immaculate however not the performances – they gained by one-goal margins on 10 events and trailed 4 instances throughout the season.
Of their 56 targets, 17 got here within the final quarter-hour of matches (30.4% of their complete), and eight had been scored in stoppage time.
Between 26 January and a couple of March, they dropped two factors and gained 4 successive matches by a one-goal margin in a interval the place they needed to grind out outcomes.
“It’s typically troublesome to explain my emotions and feelings. We had the correct mentality from the start of the season till the top,” stated Bompastor.
“Now we have been constant even when typically performances weren’t one of the best – we all the time discovered a strategy to win and get the three factors.
“I feel possibly the sport we had in opposition to Arsenal [in January] was in all probability after we began to understand we had been in a very good place to win the league.
“The second a part of the season was harder as a result of we weren’t as dominant as we might have appreciated to have been.
“For me, it’s a nice achievement as a result of we had been capable of be constant, unbeaten, and on this league it means so much as a result of it’s actually aggressive.”
All-in-all, Chelsea’s title was by no means unsure as they completed 12 factors clear with 19 wins and three attracts.
They gained six of their six matches in opposition to the opposite top-four sides – Arsenal, Manchester United and Manchester Metropolis.
The one instances they dropped factors had been in three attracts in opposition to Leicester (1-1), Brighton (2-2) and West Ham (2-2).
They continue to be, as they’ve achieved for the previous six years, one of the best crew in England.
