In the sports newspapers published the next day, almost all the headlines belonged to Chelsea, who had firmly won the half-season championship.

Although Chelsea has actually won this "championship" early due to its leading position in the standings, it is only after playing Southampton that it truly completes the meeting with all 19 Premier League teams and has truly completed half of the games.

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In these 19 rounds of games, Chelsea achieved a terrifying result of 18 wins and 1 draw!

Score up to 55 points!

And if saying this alone is not enough to reflect "horror", take a look at the results of the Premier League winter championship in recent years.

The winter champion of the 2010-2011 season was Manchester United, which had 11 wins, 7 draws, 1 loss and 40 points;

The winter champion of the 2011-2012 season was Manchester City, which had 14 wins, 3 draws, 2 losses and 45 points;

The winter champion of the 2012-2013 season was Manchester United, which had 15 wins, 1 draw, 3 losses and 46 points;

The winter champion of the 2013-2014 season was Arsenal, with 13 wins, 3 draws, 3 losses and 42 points;

In other words, according to past experience, you can win the half-time championship in the Premier League with about 40 points.

But this year's Chelsea improved this score by an order of magnitude, directly reaching 55 points!

And looking at Manchester City, which has slowly caught up so far this season, they are ranked second in the standings with 13 wins, 4 draws and 2 losses.

If they had accumulated 43 points in previous years, they might have been the winter champions!

In other words, the performance of other Premier League teams this year is actually quite normal, but Chelsea is too abnormal!

As for the winter championships listed above, in fact, except for Arsenal last year, all other teams won the final Premier League championship.

Well, Arsenal's collapse after Christmas is not just a matter of time. Last season, they were overtaken by Manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea behind them, and in the end they only won...

Fourth place!

This season, Arsenal's current performance is even worse.

Although in the past 19th round, they defeated their direct opponent West Ham 2:1 in the fourth round and climbed to the fifth position;

But compared with last season's half-time championship, there is still a big gap.

Manchester United has been playing very well recently.

Van Gaal has become more proficient in using the big circle tactics. Especially after defeating his arch-rival Liverpool 3-0 in the 16th round, he has made great progress and has now quietly climbed to the third position in the standings.
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Fourth place is still Southampton, but after being defeated by Chelsea, their points have been overtaken by Arsenal, and they are just ahead of the Gunners with a goal difference advantage.

In fact, that means Arsenal is currently tied for fourth place!

To sum up, after half the battle, the rankings in the Premier League standings are:

Chelsea 55 points.

Manchester City 43 points.

Manchester United 36 points.

Southampton 33 points.

Arsenal 33 points.

West Ham United 31 points.

Tottenham 31 points.

Liverpool 28 points.

Swansea 28 points.

Newcastle United 26 points.

Stoke City 25 points.

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In terms of players' individual performance, Chelsea players also dominate the list.

On the scorer list, center Lukaku has scored 17 goals. His high efficiency of almost one goal per game allows him to overtake Aguero, Harry Kane and other shooters to rank first.

Topping the list of assists is Hazard, who contributed 11 assists.

This data is actually even more terrifying, because Di Maria, who is ranked second, only did it 7 times.

Even ranked third is Lukaku from Chelsea, who also has 6 assists.

Lukaku is on the double list, which shows how much his comprehensive ability has been improved this season!

Some other strange statistics also show that Chelsea players rank first.

Passing the ball, Matic 397 times;

Key passes, Hazard 21 times;

Intercepted, Kanter 20 times;

Blocked, Terry 9 times;

Saves, Cahill 57 times;

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Only in the data of saves, Chelsea's Courtois fell behind the tenth, ranking only 14th.

Ranked first is Fabianski of Swansea.

How do you say this?

Chelsea suppressed their opponents in most games, and Courtois often sat on the bench in front of the goal and ate melon seeds;

Under such circumstances, he is required to contribute a lot of save data, which is too difficult for him.

Of course, it would be wrong to say that Courtois’ contribution is small.

He is far ahead in the Premier League in terms of the number of passes made by the goalkeeper and the number of attacks initiated by the goalkeeper.

He is also interpreting Pan Yi's new requirements for the goalkeeper position, which is not only to guard the goalkeeper well, but also to become the first starting point of the offense!

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In addition to praising Chelsea's half-time championship, the media also focused a lot of attention on Oscar.

The first is of course his hot form in the last two Premier League games.

Against West Ham United, it was one pass and one shot, while against Southampton, it was three shots and one pass.

In two games, he scored four goals and contributed two assists!

This is a king-level performance.

Then there are reports about his transfer rumors.

Does Chelsea really want to let such a player go?

But at this time, more and more media have received news that a mysterious team from the Dragon Kingdom has negotiated for Oscar, and the Brazilian will also officially leave after the winter window opens on January 1.
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Italian journalist Romano, who has become increasingly popular in recent years, also sent out the message "here we go!" on his social media.

The information he gave was more direct, accurate and straightforward:

"Shanghai SIPG will sign Oscar for 80 million euros."

This news directly detonated the football world.

Because everyone knows that the news about Romano is almost like an official announcement.

Everyone was shocked.

This time it’s not because of Oscar’s departure. After all, there have been rumors, and everyone is mentally prepared.

The main thing is 80 million euros. This number is really scary!

Even if Oscar's recent performance is really strong, is he really worth 80 million euros?

You know, Liverpool striker Suarez, who dominated the Premier League last season, earned more than 80 million.

Are these two on the same level?

No matter how strong Oscar is, he is not the absolute main force in the current Chelsea team.

And where did this Shanghai SIPG team come from and be able to offer such a high price?

Who is this SIPG and this "programmer"?

Therefore, there is still a lot of controversy in the English media about this transaction.

For Chelsea fans, they are certainly reluctant to leave Oscar;
To be continued...