Marc Cucurella has turn out to be the marmite participant on the market proper now amongst Chelsea followers.
There’s many Blues followers who price him, and there are various extra who nonetheless don’t price him.
For me, I all the time mentioned that once I watched Cucurella at Getafe, I assumed he was a superb left again. At Brighton as effectively he was good. Then as soon as he arrived at Chelsea his kind utterly dipped, and let’s not ignore the truth that he has had some very poor video games for us and has typically had focus lapses and will be overly rash and headless when taking part in.
His Chelsea kind has not been nice general. However the second half of final season he began to indicate significantly better kind and higher high quality, leaving out extra of the mind farts from his recreation. And he has seemingly taken that into the Euros.
Make no mistake, his Euros kind has not simply been constant, it has been constantly improbable.
Thus far on the Euros, Cucurella has:
Performed: 5
Tackles: 8
Ball Recoveries: 31
Passing Accuracy: 91.2%
Distance Lined: 53.27km
Common Score: 7.5/10
That’s not simply constant, that’s wonderful.
Final night time he helped his crew attain the ultimate of the Euros, beating France 2-1. And as soon as once more, he was one of many higher performers on the pitch.
Stats vs France:
Cucurella registered extra ahead passes (24) than another French participant managed all recreation between the 2 sides final night time.
Cucurella has registered extra profitable tackles (9), extra profitable interceptions (6) and extra blocks (4) than another Spanish participant throughout the Euros.
He’s actually proving Gary Neville flawed proper now as effectively, which I believe we as Chelsea followers can collectively get behind and have a good time!
No matter you consider Cucurella and whether or not you price him or not, I believe all of us should be collectively praising his Euros up to now, and likewise, a significantly better second half of the season with Chelsea – he’s been wonderful recently.
I’m not considering anybody calling this a flip flop opinion, I’ll ALWAYS reward our gamers when it’s due and so they deserve the reward, simply as I’ll criticise once I suppose they’re taking part in badly. It’s so vital to do each and drop any agendas. It’s vital to name out positivity simply as a lot as it’s negativity.
Do I believe Cucurella is now going to show issues round at Chelsea? I’m sceptical nonetheless in the meanwhile – my thoughts doesn’t simply overlook concerning the poor kind he has proven and the numerous errors he has made at Chelsea. However I’m not so closed minded that I wont be ready to offer him, or any participant an opportunity to show me flawed. Not essentially flawed, as a result of as I mentioned I rated him at Getafe and at Brighton. However maybe to show my current ideas on him flawed and present they will make it and be a Chelsea participant.
If Cucurella is taking part in effectively then that’s solely a great factor for the crew I like, so why would anybody be in opposition to that?
And the factor that makes it even simpler to again Cucurella is as a result of he’s only a actually nice man, a terrific character, and I’ve heard he’s a extremely humorous and entertaining particular person to have round Cobham to assist preserve morale up. He deserves the reward, so we should always all completely be giving it to him proper now for his nice and constant performances on the Euros. If England can’t win it, then I’m all for Spain and Cucurella to carry it house!
I don’t know what his Chelsea future holds, the membership would take heed to good presents for each/both of Ben Chilwell and Cucurella. So we are going to see. However he’s put himself in a terrific place forward of beginning pre-season with Chelsea, and his technical and passing capability will make him an ideal Enzo Maresca participant, if he can minimize out the legal responsibility facet of his recreation. Jury stays out, however my thoughts is totally open.
