The way I look at it, all of the starting XI on any big club is world class. Ignoring salary and transfer fees, any club would be happy to have them. A mediocre player on any of the big clubs would be the best player on a small club in a lesser league.
That’s different from asking if they’re the best 2 or 3 in the world at their position.
I’d rather instrument the pitch properly and have an AI rule offside in real time using the current rules. If a fingernail or shoelace is offside, you’re offside. It’s the delay, poor camera placement, and human error that is the problem. In interest of more offense, I’d have some kind of audible or visual alert so players know in real time that they’re in an offside position.
The Rovers have a massive talent gap. They lost Ben Brereton-Diaz to Valencia on a free transfer. They sold their GK Kaminski to Luton and their #1 GK Pears is injured. Their best defender Hyam is injured. They’re small and young up front. Justin Leonard is 18. He shows promise as 9 but he’s very inexperienced and will be pushed around by a larger CB. Dolan is 21. Szmodics works really hard but he’s small. Blackburn plays bring it out from the back. With an iffy GK and backs who aren’t athletic, an athletic Premier League squad that presses at all is going to force a lot of mistakes and get easy goals. Blackburn will have to rotate a lot of their squad and they have no depth. The Rovers will play hard but Chelsea playing squad players would have to be completely demotivated to lose.
You can get your soul crushed in Championship where it’s invisible to the media and social media other than club supporters and local news. No VAR to complain about. All the refs are poor. The league is so inconsistent that most of the league is a month of good form away from promotion playoffs and a month of poor form from worrying about relegation.