You may have read articles from both Lampard and Cech in the aftermath of the 2-0 victory against Liverpool where they have both stated we deserve the title this season, sentiments echoed from my blog last week.

Petr Cech maintained that this was down to the fact that we have taken all 18 points from the "big four" games this season - a feat achieved only by Chelsea in Premier League history.

Of course this is a major factor in Premier League success, but I think there are several more reasons why we are on our way to our fourth top flight title.

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- Luck: there I said it! Luck is an absolute must when winning a title. When we first won the Premier League under Jose Mourinho I noticed a massive change in the direction of our luck. Certain decisions go our way, and undeniably this has happened this season, and certain bits of luck fall your way - a la Stevie G on Sunday.

- Bouncebackability: A horrid phrase introduced into the world by Soccer AM (via Iain Dowie I think?) but an essential to win a title. Unless you win all four trophies you are always going to have to find your team picking themselves up from a disappointing loss at some stage in the season. Chelsea's renaissance after the loss against Inter Milan was nothing short of incredible, the 7-1 win against Aston Villa being one of the highlights of the season.

- Experience: something that Man United have always had bundles of, and with our ageing team we now ooze experience. Petr Cech, Frank Lampard and John Terry have been there and done it with Chelsea, Ashley Cole and Anelka with Arsenal, Ballack with Bayern and Essien and Malouda with Lyon. To be champions you need the mentality of champions, and looking through our squad there are several of these even on the fringes of the first team.

- Depth of Squad: it could be said we were lacking this last year when injuries piled up on us at the start of the season, we were short in a couple of positions. However this year with Arsenal's ever decreasing squad, alongside Man United and Liverpool losing some key players we managed to keep on to all of our essential players - and thus far have managed to capitalise. There is no doubt that the respective losses of Adebayor, Toure, Ronaldo, Tevez and Alonso and the maintaining of Lampard and Drogba - despite various foreign advances - have had a large impact on the outcome of the season thus far.

- Florent Malouda: never did I think that I would be singing the praises of Florent Malouda as highly as I have this season. He has been nothing short of exceptional, and alongside Branislav Ivanovic has been one of our best players this season.

- Goals (obviously...): and bundles of them. We have shown that we now have the extra ability of killing teams off. Previous eras have seen us stroll to 1-0 wins, this season hasn't seen anything of the like. Even against Liverpool on Sunday where the start was nervy, the one goal wasn't enough, we went for more and we got more. Three seven goal showings at home are testament to this mindset, something we wouldn't have expected to see under Italian leadership.

and finally...

- Carlo Ancelotti: for me, not enough has been made of Ancelotti's achievements this season. A lack of investment this season may more be down to the cautious opening of our owner's chequebook owing to the disaster Scolari, however not once has Ancelotti quibbled that this wasn't his own team - often the excuse of new managers. He has shown that he is tactically sound with the employment of Drogba and Anelka quite often being successful (especially at the beginning of the season) and also the unorthodox use of Malouda at left back when we were short in that role - it wasn't revolutionary but it was a makeshift risk that didn't cause too many problems, something a good manager needs to do. The main thing he should be praised for is the oft mentioned Crisis Talks after the Inter game, they had an effect and it has no doubt spurred us on to put us in the driving sit.

Let's hope we can fly the blue flag higher than ever come two weeks time, two cup finals to come. Exciting times.