Valencia vs. Chelsea: Near-Healthy Blues Will Roll Valencia

It's a bad time to be a Valencia fan, but perhaps it's a good time to be a fan of the Chelsea.

Either way, the Blues are starting to get healthy and their chance to become a very good team in 2011 is rising.

Andre Villas-Boas's team is finally starting to catch a glimpse of what they look like at full-strengh and it has to be a scary thought for opponents.

No comeback is perhaps more important than Blues star Didier Drogba, who had to sit out due to a scary mid-air collision that saw him carted off the field with a concussion.

Drogba is back and already making his presence felt, which is good news for the Blues and bad news for the rest of the league.

The Champions League is already strong enough, but with the emergence of a finally healthy Chelsea squad things could start to get real interesting.

Standing in their way is a Valencia team that will undoubtedly present some problems, but Villas Boas is feeling good about the prospect of having an almost complete squad, according to Nick Howson of GiveMeFootball.com

Andre Villas-Boas is relishing the prospect of having a near injury-free Chelsea squad to pick from for the club's Champions League group match with Valencia.

The Portuguese manager had the luxury of taking 20 players to Spain for their second group phase match, including fit again Didier Drogba, who marked his return with a goal against Swansea City last weekend.

But while the boss admits he has some tough decisions to make, he's confident the chosen one's will step up to the plate.

"The motivation is at the top at the moment," he said. "I think we made good decisions regarding rest and active periods, we have a good relationship in that balance and it showed against Swansea because we had nine fresh players on the pitch."

"In the end it proved right because we showed good intensity over the 90 minutes even when down to 10 men. We are at the moment in a tight schedule, these players break up after for the international break and we have to manage the balance between resting and playing.

"Tomorrow we can put 11 strong players in the pitch because the talent we have at our disposal is out of this world and we just hope to make the right decisions. The players are used to it, they are professional."

The major factor to pay attention to against Valencia is having nine fresh players on the pitch.

Chelsea showed that they could be a dangerous and good team when they were banged up, so now that they are getting healthy I expect the intensity of their will to increase.

They know they can be a great team and now they are starting to get all their ducks in a row.

Valencia picked a bad time to match up with Chelsea, or perhaps the Blues just picked a good time to get healthy.

I expect Chelsea will look good in an easy win.