I’ve written an article on the weekend on my private Substack site mainly explaining how Chelsea managed to get Pedro Neto over the road and get it achieved so quick, in addition to how they beat competitors to get him.
And now, it’s time to try the place he may slot in to this Chelsea beginning Xl, as a result of this signing DOES excite me!
Should you bear in mind my lineup forecast from a few weeks again, I truly had Neto in a kind of as my dream Xl with new signings! I promise I didn’t know any greater than what I had already reported at the moment, I used to be simply choosing him as one of the best of the names that SPTC sources had truly heard and the one who suits in finest.
Neto is SO versatile. These are the positions performed throughout his total profession:
- Left wing = 44 occasions
- Proper wing = 36 occasions
- Centre ahead = 19 occasions
- Second striker = 14 occasions
- Attacking midfielder = 13 occasions
Neto is left-footed, so all of it relies upon what Enzo Maresca desires from his wingers, whether or not he sees extra of a slicing in menace like Noni Madueke, or a byline and crossing menace. Neto can do both.
I see him on the suitable, and I imagine this is because of what we preserve listening to from high sources that Cole Palmer goes to be taking part in extra centrally underneath Maresca. After all, we have now to attend and see on that as Palmer has by no means but been obtainable for Maresca throughout pre-season till Sunday vs Inter.
I additionally suppose Christopher Nkunku will then transfer to the left, with Nicolas Jackson, or if we by some means handle it, Victor Osimhen up high. With the wing menace we have now and crossing menace, I actually suppose we must always have a striker with aerial menace in there now, extra importantly than ever earlier than. So Samu Omorodion, or if we get him, Osimhen, can be nice targets a minimum of. Jackson I nonetheless see as a left winger greater than striker on account of that motive.
Marc Cucurella I feel would be the inverted full again, and Reece James would be the centre again/full again on the opposite aspect.
Factor is, on this Xl that I can see Maresca going for, I’m leaving out Moises Caicedo which is absolute insanity after all. I feel Maresca may favour Enzo Fernandez in that 8 function over him, and Lavia over him within the deep function. That is what I feel Maresca will go for, simply as a reminder. Wesley Fofana additionally misses out, and plenty of others.
Neto off the suitable, then the remaining as you see under…
Fortunate we have now a number of video games to play and there will likely be loads of rotation and gamers being switched up with good competitors for every place.
If we do by some means pull Osimhen off, or one other striker in, then I’ll be circling again to this with a headache attempting to suit them in too!
I’m very intrigued to see Maresca’s lineup for Inter (scripting this earlier than the sport), as that is likely to be very near what we see at Manchester Metropolis the week after – though Neto and Jackson/one other striker might need to be added!
*This was written earlier than the Reece James damage information, so clearly this wont be the lineup for Metropolis. Malo Gusto will begin and would probably be the inverted choice after which I think Levi Colwill or Benoit Badiashile will begin as an alternative of Marc Cucurella to be the left centre again/left full again.
