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Mind games: Sarri's 'strange' Chelsea side face fight for top-four finish

Maurizio Sarri has said all along that  Chelsea  would not be title challengers this season. However, it's now become abundantly clear that a top-four finish is by no means a certainty either. The "strange mentality" that Sarri has repeatedly claimed pervades his playing staff has been exposed for all to see, first by  Tottenham  last Saturday week, and now by  Wolves  in Wednesday night's shock 2-1 loss at Molineux. The visitors dominated much of the game yet left with nothing. Whereas Chelsea should have ended the night celebrating Ruben Loftus-Cheek, who opened the scoring with his sixth goal in seven games, they were instead left wondering how the game had got away from  Sarri may be considering one-on-one meetings again, just like he did after the loss against Spurs, after coming away unhappy with his team's reaction to conceding. "I think that we played very well for 55 minutes," Sarri told journalists. "After the first goa...