Former Chelsea winger Pat Nevin has been complimenting Moises Caicedo this weekend after one other superb efficiency in opposition to West Ham. However he’s refusing to be drawn an excessive amount of into the N’Golo Kante comparisons but.
Chelsea followers had been evaluating Caicedo to N’Golo Kante following his glorious show in opposition to West Ham.
Nonetheless, Nevin doesn’t assume he’s there but, however he was providing some compliments to the midfielder all the identical.
On Caicedo, Nevin advised talkSPORT: “He has began his recreation once more. He wins issues, he’s laborious to beat, he’s not N’Golo Kante, however he’s sensible at killing any kind of fast breaks, sure, however any time there’s a tight go within the midfield, he’s zipping in there as effectively.
“So all that kind of stuff that he’s type of good at, he’s exhibiting he’s good at. He isn’t going to attain 10 screamers from exterior the field yearly, you aren’t wanting that, you aren’t anticipating that, you didn’t pay £100 million for that.”
Proper now, the Ecuador worldwide is averaging 4.2 tackles per recreation within the Premier League, which is unimaginable.
Caicedo made 8 tackles throughout the West Ham match, which was essentially the most within the recreation.
He additionally gained essentially the most duels (13) within the recreation and had an 87% go succession charge.
One other former Chelsea participant Jason Cundy had this to say on Caicedo’s efficiency on Saturday:
“I assumed Caicedo was sensible as we speak [Saturday]. You might be beginning to see why we paid a lot cash. And it’s laborious to dwell as much as a £100 million-plus price ticket as a result of he’s not that participant that catches the attention.
“Whenever you pay £100 million, you need to see like [Erling] Haaland, don’t you, Harry Kane, however truly as we speak in the course of the park, challenges, and the go for Jackson was lovely.”
Lastly, Caicedo’s function is changing into much less and fewer ‘unsung’, and sticking with the music reference (sing, sung, unsung), Caicedo is now changing into the headline act.
Granted, he took a while to settle in at Chelsea which is pure. He was buzzing to affix our membership and you could possibly sense that he knew how huge it was to make that transfer and below such a giant price ticket. I feel that each one initially effected him a bit, simply the sheer measurement of the transfer he simply made.
However now he’s feeling extra like he belongs right here and he’s backing his skill to turn into a massively vital participant for us, and he’s actually exhibiting some high quality and consistency now, which is essential.
Caicedo has been an enormous a part of our good outcomes recently. You want gamers like him to verify we may be secure on the again in addition to devastating in assault.
I see a assured Caicedo coming collectively now and the Kante comparisons are clearly going to be there as a result of they’re each glorious at breaking apart play and intercepting. I all the time backed the signing of Caicedo, and I do assume he can have the identical type of impact that Kante had at our membership down the road.
