As long as Hazard stays healthy, we're easily finishing in the top 3. We just had one bad result (City) after playing 7 games in 21 days. I can pin that result and the other so-so result (Arsenal) on Conte a bit for his team selection and formation. However, all in all we seemed to have coped with September's fixture congestion well and only looked tired against City. That's gonna happen on a Saturday match when you outwork the best 'hard working' team there is in Spain on a Wednesday night.
Conte figured out who should be playing and who shouldn't be last year and quickly got rid of them (Ivanovic, Mikel, Oscar, Terry). As long as he does the same thing this year (Willian, Moses, Cahill, Fabregas but just in a reduced role) there won't be the potential collapse the media was yearning for. I'm a bit scarred from the FA Cup final. No one looked motivated to do the double so as a bit of self preservation, I'm going to pretend like those competitions don't exist. We ran through the small teams last year - that's how you win the title. That's how you get to 93 points with a squad with players like Victor Moses and Gary Cahill.
Conte is a great manager and I'm not worried about our league form in the least bit despite me not liking a lot of players in the squad.