Chelsea must beat Nottingham Forest on Sunday afternoon to ensure Champions League qualification for subsequent season no matter different outcomes (except Villa win by double figures).
It’s an enormous recreation and can as soon as once more be handled like a cup ultimate by Enzo Maresca and the gamers, however it is going to even be handled as one by Forest and their formidable and demanding proprietor.
I imagine we’d like all of our greatest gamers and large recreation gamers on the pitch collectively on the identical time, beginning the sport. I additionally imagine we’d like gamers on the pitch who’re the distinction makers and who can get a aim from nothing.
No beginning Xl for Sunday goes to be superb as a result of we’re with no striker. Marc Guiu has been again in coaching however has not performed for 3 months. Maybe he will help late on off the bench on the most, however I don’t assume he’s prepared to start out. If he’s, then begin him, as a result of his power and urgent from the entrance might be an enormous assist as will having an precise striker relatively than a false 9.
But when he isn’t, then I’d go together with Cole Palmer because the false 9 purely so I can get Romeo Lavia, Moises Caicedo, Enzo Fernandez, and Reece James all beginning the sport collectively. I don’t wish to see any of our most essential and finest gamers on the bench.
Lavia can sit and management, Caicedo can play near him as a box-to-box and have extra attacking and dribbling freedom, and Fernandez can play make as the opposite box-to-box creator.
If Maresca desires to invert a full again then invert Marc Cucurella, however I’d personally go together with the ‘old school’ 4-3-3. It’s easy, to make sure, we’ve got to win, so we’ve got to go for it.
I’m not saying go all out attacking, however our defence has been much more strong recently so we must always have the boldness to take the sport to Forest.
That is what I wish to see, however I do know Maresca wont decide this. Nicely, I’d be pleasantly shocked if he does.
As I stated, no formation is good with out an precise striker, however this formation and beginning Xl for me would permit us to regulate the sport in the easiest way and have our greatest and most threatening gamers on the pitch. The place do the targets come from? Come on! Cucurella clearly!
For me, you simply can not justify having both James or Lavia on the bench within the largest recreation of our season. So if we’ve got to shoehorn a participant or two simply to get all of them on the pitch collectively, then so be it.
I’m additionally beginning Tosin purely to take care of Chris Wooden within the air. Tosin was very good in our final recreation and handled the presence of Hojlund nicely. Wooden is a special ball recreation altogether however Tosin is an enormous man. It’s harsh on Trevoh Chalobah as a result of he’s additionally been good and sure, I did say I don’t assume you ought to be dropping gamers who’ve been very good. However I additionally assume Chalobah is almost certainly to be offered greater than Tosin in order that may very well be a distraction, who is aware of…
Forest are having some off subject issues too and I truthfully assume they’ve been actually dangerous recently. They’re there for the taking if we flip up and never only for 45 minutes like we frequently do, however for the complete 90. The one factor that considerations me actually is our horrible away document this season and the house followers might be in full swing like at Newcastle, and this made our gamers very timid. We can not come out like that this time.
I so fancy us for the win I actually do. It’s going to be removed from straightforward however we will actually discover targets towards this Forest facet in poor kind.
Let’s go!!! I’m buzzing!!
