Falcao's Superstition Is On It Toes Again

As a young and upcoming pundit or connoisseur of the game, I never believed and do not believe superstition works in association football. But for the first time I have no option than to nod my head and admit the superstition of Falcao is really true.

What is indeed the superstition of Rademel Facao?
Since his days at south America to Portugal to the Spanish capital, to France and now at the land of the queen, I really don't know if it is his destiny but unarguably, he has been struggling with his teams. The best position he can earn with a team is fourth position and his worst is relegation. His best happened just last season with Manchester united.

The pundits are believing and predicting that, it is at the verge of happening to Chelsea this season and as a young pundit, I have no option than to believe as well. I hope his worst should not happen this season.

I still can't believe it is the Chelsea players who are now performing abysmally in all departments of the game and all of them look shambolic. The usual telepathy between them is no more working again and they look like a frafra k)b) team.

Look at hazard as if he has never kicked a ball before. Anyone who is unaware of his numerous accolades last season, will easily doubt if he was the PFA player last season and Chelsea's players player of the year.

Look at the workaholic Pedro his days at Barcelona and now at Chelsea. As if he his now learning to play the game. Even the exuberance Azpilicueta looks like a 49 year old. The woes of Ivanovic keep on dwindling after every match. Garry Cahil who is called the defense headmaster by Chelsea's die hard supporters, looks rusty and sapped at the back.

Falcao just left Manchester united last season and they are performing like a 7 star team this season until their mauling last Sunday by the Gunners.

Astonishingly, Chelsea is defensively, the weak team in the EPL after Sunderlans and has the highest number of opponent's shorts on target than any other team. But last season, without the service of Falcao, they were the champions and defensively, conceded fewer goals than any other team.

The premiership this season is nowhere and Chelsea has conceded more than half of the total number of goals they conceded last season. The worst of it is that, this is the poor start of Chelsea in the EPL for over decades and also Mourinho's worst start to a league in all his coaching career.

Why didn't it happened last season or any other season to Chelsea and mourinho when they were not working with falcao but this season when they hired the service of Rademel Falcao.

Indeed Falcao's superstition is one to really take it serious and it is on the ascendency again.

Abdul Rashid Suleman.
Fourth year nursing student.
Knust.
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