The one predominant takeaway from Enzo Maresca that I’ve seen up to now is that he’s making an attempt his perfect to make use of a daily ‘finest Xl’ at Chelsea.
Clearly this has been troublesome for earlier Chelsea managers to do as a result of we now have battled with SO many accidents currently. However Maresca has absolutely the luxurious and what many people thought we might by no means see once more, a totally match squad! Once more, props to the membership, coaches, and medics for getting on high of this, it deserves enormous reward, no matter they’ve carried out to get there.
Even with accidents although that may nonetheless occur and are unavoidable, Maresca goes to be utilizing his ‘finest Xl’ however with fill ins. So his finest Xl proper now’s turning into fairly clear.
When everyone seems to be match, proper now, it’s this:
Sanchez, James, Fofana, Colwill, Cucurella; Caicedo, Lavia, Palmer; Sancho, Madueke, Jackson.
This doesn’t imply that others can’t problem after which get within the workforce forward of a few of these names, and as I’ve mentioned, we now have a number of knocking very onerous on the door proper now.
However by selecting Lavia over Enzo Fernandez within the joint greatest sport of our season up to now on Sunday, was very telling. This was the one key choice that I spoke about some weeks again saying I used to be intrigued to see what he would go along with. And he went with Lavia.
So does this imply that Maresca has made his greatest and most vital squad choice up to now? I consider it does.
Lavia and Fernandez I really feel will rotate greater than most although, attributable to Lavia’s accidents of late. However I consider this now factors to the truth that Maresca sees Lavia over Fernandez if he was to select his ‘finest’ Chelsea 11.
I don’t suppose many would disagree with this choice both. However what does that imply for Enzo, who the membership invested over £100m to signal? It’s an enormous query mark behind that now.
I really like our midfield, however I nonetheless suppose it lacks some metal as I’ve beforehand spoken on, and in addition maybe creativity if Fernandez will not be going to be beginning as a lot. Lavia and Caicedo provide extra management and stability in deeper areas and enjoying out from the goalkeeper. However in these superior areas, there’s a large onus purely on Cole Palmer to be the creator and naturally, he isn’t all the time going to have the ability to flip up each single sport (extra on that in one other article at this time).
I charge Caicedo and Lavia greater than Fernandez, however I additionally do nonetheless charge Fernandez. I do marvel although, whether or not what our man Jai has been saying on our SPTC Podcasts lately holds weight and that really, Fernandez is simply not going to be a Premier League participant and would swimsuit someplace like La Liga a lot better. I do charge him although and all the time have carried out so I’m not writing him off within the slightest. He simply doesn’t begin in our greatest Xl proper now, and I agree with Maresca on that one.
