Enzo Maresca has hinted he might experiment with Cole Palmer and Joao Felix as twin quantity tens for Chelsea.
Palmer has been Chelsea’s standout expertise since arriving from Manchester Metropolis and has began the brand new season in electrical kind, with seven objectives and 5 assists in 9 league appearances.
Chelsea added to their choices with the seize of Joao Felix in the summertime, re-signing the previous loanee from Atletico Madrid. The 2 have competed for a spot within the facet this season, although Maresca believes the pair are able to taking part in collectively.
“It’s a matter of steadiness. Romeo [Lavia] and Moises [Caicedo] give us physicality, power within the center. For this reason we discovered the choice of Malo [Gusto] within the pocket,” Maresca mentioned at his pre-match press convention forward of going through Manchester United.
“Once we play with Enzo [Fernandez], it needs to be Enzo and one between Moi and Romeo. When Enzo strikes we battle within the center with physicality. On this second, Moi and Romeo give us this.
“This [lack of physicality] doesn’t imply that we will’t play with Joao [Felix] and Cole [Palmer] within the pocket. Quickly, we’re going to see Joao [Felix] and Cole [Palmer] collectively within the pocket. It’s at all times the sport that requires [something] a bit of bit completely different.”
One participant who is flourishing this season is Nicolas Jackson. Maresca mentioned he’s ‘very completely happy’ with the event of Chelsea ahead who has been in terrific kind throughout the opening weeks of the Premier League marketing campaign. The 23-year-old prolonged his file to 6 objectives and three assists in 9 video games final weekend.
Jackson is aiming to attain for the third recreation operating towards Manchester United and Maresca mentioned the Senegalese striker has been massively essential to his facet’s season.
“We’re very completely happy as a result of Nico helps us, not simply by way of numbers however in the way in which we need to play,” Maresca mentioned at his pre-match press convention.
“The best way he hyperlinks together with his team-mates helps us in our course of. When he drops he offers us an additional man. When he assaults in behind, he’s fast and might rating objectives. You noticed towards Newcastle when he drops, the choices he offers.
“We’re very completely happy. We attempt to work with him in several areas, one is when he drops but additionally what he has to do then. We’ve got been making an attempt to enhance Nico since we began.”
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