Enzo Maresca looks to have made his best decision in midfield – Talk Chelsea

The one important takeaway from Enzo Maresca that I’ve seen to this point is that he’s attempting his easiest 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’ve got battled with SO many accidents recently. 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 high of this, it deserves big reward, no matter they’ve achieved 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 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 not problem after which get within the crew forward of a few of these names, and as I’ve mentioned, we’ve got just a few knocking very onerous on the door proper now.

However by selecting Lavia over Enzo Fernandez within the joint largest recreation of our season to this point 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 largest and most vital squad choice to this point? I imagine it does.

Lavia and Fernandez I really feel will rotate greater than most although, attributable to 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 isn’t going to be beginning as a lot. Lavia and Caicedo supply extra management and stability in deeper areas and enjoying out from the goalkeeper. However in these superior areas, there’s a huge onus purely on Cole Palmer to be the creator and naturally, he’s not all the time going to have the ability to flip up each single recreation (extra on that in one other article at present).

I fee Caicedo and Lavia larger 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 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 all the time 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.