The one fundamental takeaway from Enzo Maresca that I’ve observed to date is that he’s making an attempt his easiest to make use of an everyday ‘finest Xl’ at Chelsea.
Clearly this has been tough for earlier Chelsea managers to do as a result of now we have battled with SO many accidents currently. However Maresca has absolutely the luxurious and what many people thought we’d by no means see once more, a totally match squad! Once more, props to the membership, coaches, and medics for getting on prime of this, it deserves enormous reward, no matter they’ve achieved to get there.
Even with accidents although that can nonetheless occur and are unavoidable, Maresca goes to be utilizing his ‘finest Xl’ however with fill ins. So his finest Xl proper now could be 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 group forward of a few of these names, and as I’ve mentioned, now we have a couple of knocking very laborious on the door proper now.
However by choosing Lavia over Enzo Fernandez within the joint greatest sport of our season to date on Sunday, was very telling. This was the one key determination that I spoke about some weeks again saying I used to be intrigued to see what he would go together with. And he went with Lavia.
So does this imply that Maresca has made his greatest and most important squad choice to date? I imagine it does.
Lavia and Fernandez I really feel will rotate greater than most although, as a result of Lavia’s accidents of late. However I imagine 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 is just not 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 at all times going to have the ability to flip up each single sport (extra on that in one other article as we speak).
I fee Caicedo and Lavia greater than Fernandez, however I additionally do nonetheless fee Fernandez. I do marvel although, whether or not what our man Jai has been saying on our SPTC Podcasts just lately holds weight and that truly, Fernandez is simply not going to be a Premier League participant and would go well with someplace like La Liga a lot better. I do fee him although and at all times have achieved 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.
