Chelsea took an enormous step in direction of their season goals on Sunday once they beat Liverpool at house.
There’s nonetheless three huge video games to play, together with two towards our direct rivals for a prime 5 place, Nottingham Forest and Newcastle.
However earlier than we begin serious about the journey to St James’ Park arising this weekend, we’ve received to complete the job towards Djurgarden within the Convention League.
A cushty 4-1 first leg win has us in a commanding place, and plenty of Chelsea followers will already be serious about shopping for their Convention League Closing Tickets, however we noticed within the final spherical the place we misplaced at house to Legia Warsaw that issues don’t all the time go to plan.
Enzo Maresca can be eager to choose essentially the most rotated staff he can get away with, given the magnitude of the sport on Sunday, and it will likely be fascinating to see if he retains up his philosophy from the primary leg.
In that recreation we noticed Enzo Fernandez and Moises Caicedo play 45 minutes every. Neither appeared affected by that towards Liverpool, so it appears a protected wager we’ll see an identical setup.
Romeo Lavia received’t be risked, doubtless not at the same time as a sub, he’s nonetheless solely match for one recreation per week, and received’t see extra motion that that for the remainder of the season, we’d suspect.
Reece James will return to play in midfield as he did within the first leg, and we may even doubtless see a return for Kiernan Dewsbury-Corridor, who has made this competitors his personal over the course of the season.
Followers at Stamford Bridge can be most excited to see Tyrique George, who was unfortunate to solely get a quick cameo towards the Reds on the weekend. In opposition to a Djurgarden staff who actually didn’t persuade defensively within the first leg, the tough winger might actually feast.
Get by means of this second leg and we can be serious about the ultimate – and that’s the place Maresca’s job actually will get tough. We are going to face far stronger opposition than we have now on this competitors up to now, whether or not it’s Actual Betis or Fiorentina who undergo. Does the the Italian coach stick to the gamers like KDH and George who have gotten him this far, or play his strongest staff to safe the trophy in Wroclaw?
He received’t be worrying about it simply but, but it surely’s very a lot a query mark that’s on the horizon for him.
