Marc Cucurella has turn out to be the marmite participant on the market proper now amongst Chelsea followers.
There’s many Blues followers who price him, and there are a lot of extra who nonetheless don’t price him.
For me, I all the time mentioned that after I watched Cucurella at Getafe, I believed he was a wonderful left again. At Brighton as nicely he was good. Then as soon as he arrived at Chelsea his type utterly dipped, and let’s not ignore the truth that he has had some very poor video games for us and has typically had focus lapses and will be overly rash and headless when enjoying.
His Chelsea type has not been nice general. However the second half of final season he began to indicate a lot better type and higher high quality, leaving out extra of the mind farts from his sport. And he has seemingly taken that into the Euros.
Make no mistake, his Euros type has not simply been constant, it has been persistently implausible.
Thus far on the Euros, Cucurella has:
Performed: 5
Tackles: 8
Ball Recoveries: 31
Passing Accuracy: 91.2%
Distance Lined: 53.27km
Common Ranking: 7.5/10
That’s not simply constant, that’s glorious.
Final evening he helped his group attain the ultimate of the Euros, beating France 2-1. And as soon as once more, he was one of many higher performers on the pitch.
Stats vs France:
Cucurella registered extra ahead passes (24) than every other French participant managed all sport between the 2 sides final evening.
Cucurella has registered extra profitable tackles (9), extra profitable interceptions (6) and extra blocks (4) than every other Spanish participant through the Euros.
He’s actually proving Gary Neville mistaken proper now as nicely, which I believe we as Chelsea followers can collectively get behind and rejoice!
No matter you consider Cucurella and whether or not you price him or not, I believe all of us should be collectively praising his Euros up to now, and in addition, a a lot better second half of the season with Chelsea – he’s been glorious currently.
I’m not all for anybody calling this a flip flop opinion, I’ll ALWAYS reward our gamers when it’s due and so they deserve the reward, simply as I’ll criticise after I assume they’re enjoying badly. It’s so essential to do each and drop any agendas. It’s essential to name out positivity simply as a lot as it’s negativity.
Do I believe Cucurella is now going to show issues round at Chelsea? I’m sceptical nonetheless in the intervening time – my thoughts doesn’t simply overlook concerning the poor type he has proven and the numerous errors he has made at Chelsea. However I’m not so closed minded that I wont be ready to present him, or any participant an opportunity to show me mistaken. Not essentially mistaken, as a result of as I mentioned I rated him at Getafe and at Brighton. However maybe to show my current ideas on him mistaken and present they’ll make it and be a Chelsea participant.
If Cucurella is enjoying nicely then that’s solely a very good factor for the group I like, so why would anybody be in opposition to that?
And the factor that makes it even simpler to again Cucurella is as a result of he’s only a actually nice man, an incredible character, and I’ve heard he’s a very humorous and entertaining particular person to have round Cobham to assist preserve morale up. He deserves the reward, so we must always all completely be giving it to him proper now for his nice and constant performances on the Euros. If England can’t win it, then I’m all for Spain and Cucurella to carry it dwelling!
I don’t know what his Chelsea future holds, the membership would take heed to good presents for each/both of Ben Chilwell and Cucurella. So we are going to see. However he’s put himself in an incredible place forward of beginning pre-season with Chelsea, and his technical and passing potential will make him an ideal Enzo Maresca participant, if he can minimize out the legal responsibility facet of his sport. Jury stays out, however my thoughts is totally open.
