Chelsea manager Antonio Conte has predicted that no team will ever breach the 100-point mark in a Premier League season.
Chelsea currently hold the all-time record with 95 points, while Conte steered Juventus to a European-wide record of 102 points in the 2013-14 season.
A run of eight wins in a row has seen Chelsea climb to the top of the table this season, but Conte believes that the difficult nature of every game in the Premier League will make it "impossible" for a team to reach a century of points.
"It's impossible. Now, I think it's impossible. Now, the present is this season and, for sure, in the future, it would be very, very tough to achieve this: 100 points is very difficult. Every single game is very tough. To have won eight games in a row is fantastic, fantastic, because this league, in every game you have to fight a lot," he told reporters.
"You can win 2-0, but it's very difficult to manage the result in England. This is the great difficulty. In other countries, also in Italy, if you are 2-0 up after 50 minutes, it's very difficult for the result to change. You are able to manage the result tactically.
"I think this number 95 (Chelsea's points record) is a fantastic number. You can see in the past the title has been won with 85, 87 points and it's very difficult to get above 90 points. But, for us, it's important to see and play game by game. Don't look too far ahead. Be focused game by game. If we are able to take three points, it's important."
Chelsea will look to move back above Arsenal into top spot when they host West Bromwich Albion at Stamford Bridge on Sunday.
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