The World Cup goes to be ending on Sunday and it’ll mark the tip of what has been a reasonably first rate competitors and an entertaining one to look at.
I’ve been watching many video games with my Chelsea hat on, maintaining a tally of potential abilities that I believe Chelsea ought to check out. And perhaps Chelsea are already having a look at these gamers. I’m positive they might have had scouts at each World Cup sport.
Watching Morocco vs France within the semi-final of the World Cup had me pondering two Moroccan midfielders, Sofyan Amrabat, and Azzedine Ounahi.
Each gamers are already being closely linked with strikes away from their golf equipment, Amrabat from Fiorentina, and Ounahi from Angers, and it’s no shock huge golf equipment are sniffing round.
Amrabat and Ounahi have been unfortunate to be on the shedding aspect within the France sport and may maintain their heads excessive, with each of them getting legitimate shouts for participant of the match. No person can begrudge both in the event that they have been to be named that.
I’ve watched Amrabat earlier than in a handful of video games in Serie A, and I’ve all the time favored him. However on the World Cup, he actually stood out to me and made me take discover. After I’m watching a sport usually as a impartial and a participant I’ve not heard an excessive amount of about earlier than stands out to me, that’s after I know they’re having an excellent sport and makes me wish to see extra.
I believe Amrabat could be an outstanding defensive midfielder possibility for us in January, earlier than signing one other in the summertime for depth and competitors.
Get the information executed on this man, watch again his stay performances from this season and final season, and let’s decide on him. I genuinely assume he’s the true deal as a DM, and would carry precisely what we want and have been lacking from our engine room – real vitality, physicality, tempo, and 100% effort.
This man is like N’Golo Kante however the defensive midfielder model moderately than a box-to-box model. He brings all of the vitality, intercepting, and tackling that Kante does, however he’s additionally disciplined to sit down as a holding midfielder and has glorious positional consciousness and talent to learn the sport and skim the move. He intercepts for enjoyable.
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However in addition to all of that, he’s technically superb on the ball and all the time desires the ball. He by no means hides away and doesn’t worry a excessive press. His passing is nice, and his ball management can be nice. One other foremost level I’ve observed is that he’s constantly trying to progress the ball when he can, however to not a harmful stage. If a move is on he goes for it, in any other case he is aware of when to maintain the ball. He’s an clever participant, and I believe he could be a really stable possibility to return in for Chelsea in January.
As for Ounahi, I’ve by no means watched him play a sport earlier than this World Cup, so actually, I’m not as certified to make a judgement on him proper now. Nevertheless, I might completely encourage Chelsea to try his historic video games and information as effectively proper now. As a result of primarily based on the World Cup alone, he appears an actual participant, and once more, would carry the opposite aspect of what our midfield wants and is lacking – creativity, development, direct play, and an actual attacking risk from midfield.
Amrabat and Ounahi actually praise one another in midfield, their attributes actually match and produce steadiness. They’ve an actual confidence in one another to play passes in tight areas and belief every others capacity.
Ounahi is a bit like Mateo Kovacic however with higher finish product. He retains the ball with shut management and fast toes, and he’s assured dribbling out of hazard.
The one ‘slight’ concern is simply that, he’s very ‘barely’ constructed. Nevertheless, he’s simply 22-years-old so his physicality will enhance. Plus, he definitely isn’t shy to place himself about and get caught right into a deal with. The Premier League could be very bodily although, so my concern is whether or not he could be simply knocked off the ball. But when he can get within the gymnasium and construct up, he appears like he has all of the instruments to develop into a high quality artistic midfielder, one thing that we actually lack.
What I really like about him is the boldness and self-belief that he performs with, one other factor that lots of our gamers appear to lack. He all the time desires the ball and he all the time desires to maneuver ahead with the ball, whether or not it’s operating with it or discovering a progressive move. He appears like the true deal, and a high quality technical participant that may do a little bit of every thing in midfield. He isn’t simply in regards to the creativity although; he can battle, run, press, and provides 100% depth all sport.
These are the kind of all-rounders that Chelsea have to be to herald to our midfield, and never simply gamers who’re specialists at one or two issues, however poor in different areas. Get me some all spherical midfielders!
