When Liam Rosenior first arrived at Chelsea, I commented that he was organising identical to Enzo Maresca, and I noticed little or no variations. I did observe that up with saying that it was very early doorways for him, and maybe he wanted a little bit of time to implement his concepts and what he wished from the gamers. Now, we’re seeing that come to fruition.
Final evening, in that first 45 minutes, it was not solely the very best soccer I’ve seen us play underneath Liam, but in addition the very best soccer I’ve seen us play for fairly a while.
He used a setup that was not overly difficult, didn’t have any full backs inverting into the centre or attacking midfield positions, it had stability and midfield overloads, and allowed freedom for our artistic gamers to function. You have no idea how refreshing it was for me to see that and the way lengthy I’ve been asking to see that. It merely will get the very best out of our gamers. We had full backs overlapping, and excellent steadiness with how he positioned his midfielders comparable to Enzo Fernandez working within the left half area. Marc Cucurella makes the width on the left, and Malo Gusto was serving to Estevao Willian assault down the precise. Traditional full backs are nonetheless alive, ahh!
Cole Palmer was gifted pure freedom, which is what he has been craving. I imply, you noticed Palmer all over the place final evening, even dropping proper in to get it quick off Robert Sanchez. If you would like the very best out of Palmer, that is what you have to afford him, the liberty to roam. Estevao was doing a whole lot of the identical too. And we had been ticking and purring in that first half.
He was all over the place… !
There was no sluggish and laboured play, solely quick one contact soccer to get us up the pitch and into an attacking place as quickly as potential. It was so good to observe. I haven’t usually stated I’ve loved watching Chelsea play in the previous few years, however I completely loved that first 45 minutes. It’s why I used to be so annoyed that we cocked it up within the second half and threw away a two purpose lead.
However Liam is getting there, and that draw was probably not on him final evening. He appears to actually be making an attempt to ship on what he promised – entertaining and attacking soccer. I’m seeing dynamism however on the similar time, he now has his trusted beginning Xl I imagine and trusted setup, with Andrey Santos being THE key cog for it. With out him, I don’t assume this setup works fairly as properly. He’s the instrumental a part of this. However each participant is necessary to it, and it’s so necessary that we are able to maintain all of them match and in type.
Clearly there may be nonetheless so much to work on, however some good indicators from final evening for certain.
