Frank Lampard's first season in Chelsea has caught the eyes of many and a stern fight lies ahead in the final months of the season in the hunt to secure Champions League football.
The Blues were superb in the opening months of the campaign but have stumbled more recently, failing to win their last three Premier League matches prior to the winter break.
That has opened the door for the likes of Manchester United, Tottenham, Wolves and even Sheffield United to claw back into the race for a top-four finish.
With a challenging FA Cup clash with Liverpool on the horizon and a Champions League double-header with Bayern Munich, the pressure on the squad increasing.
So can Lampard cope with the pressure? Will Champions League football return to Stamford Bridge next season? We used popular football management simulation game Football Manager 2020 to find out.
The final 2019/20 Premier League table predicted by Football Manager 2020
To set up this simulation, the guys at Football Manager kindly supplied us with a save game with an updated database featuring all the latest signings, manager changes and crucially, updated fixtures, results and league table.
We then simulated the rest of the 2019/20 Premier League season ourselves, to see how the final 2019/20 Premier League table could look.
Here is the league table as of February 7, 2020, with all the accurate results and fixtures added in.
The season turned out to be a positive one for Frank Lampard's Chelsea, but first lets take a look at some of the major results.
Chelsea 3-1 Manchester United - February 17 2020
Chelsea are predicted to secure a huge result when they return from their winter break next week with a dominating 3-1 victory over top-four rivals Manchester United, courtesy of a brace from Willian and an effort from Mason Mount.
West Ham 3-1 Chelsea - April 3 2020
Chelsea's push for a top-four finish is predicted to suffer a blow at the start of April with a trip across London to relegation-threatened West Ham, with Pedro scoring what only proved to be a consolation.
Crystal Palace 0-3 Chelsea - April 18 2020
Crystal Palace have proven to be a banana skin for a number of clubs pushing to achieve their goals towards the latter end of the campaign, including Arsenal's top-four hopes last season, but Chelsea are predicted to avoid similar problems with a routine victory.
The final 2019/20 Premier League table predicted by Football Manager 2020
This is how the final 2019/20 Premier League table will look, according to our Football Manager 2020 simulation.
As you can see, Chelsea are backed to squeeze into the Champions League again next season, remarkably finishing above Wolves on goal difference - which was certainly boosted by the victories over Crystal Palace and Manchester United.
Joining them are Tottenham, who finish a single point ahead of Chelsea, along with Manchester City and Liverpool - with the standout being that Leicester City endure a major decline, finishing sixth.
This is how the game predicts Tottenham's results from February 7 onwards.
Football Manager 2020 predicts Chelsea will drop a further 15 points by the end of the season, suffering a blip towards the end of the campaign with a defeat to Liverpool and a draw with Wolves - who would've leapfrogged the Blues if they had managed to win.
So there you have it, the 2019/20 Premier League table has been predicted by Football Manager 2020, with Chelsea squeezing their way into the Champions League - but it looks set to be a bumpy ride.
