Chelsea should 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 can even be handled as one by Forest and their formidable and demanding proprietor.
I imagine we’d like all of our greatest gamers and massive 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 excellent 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 can assist late on off the bench on the most, however I don’t suppose he’s prepared to begin. If he’s, then begin him, as a result of his power and urgent from the entrance will probably be an enormous assist as will having an precise striker fairly 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 need to see any of our most necessary 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 needs 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 have now to win, so we have now to go for it.
I’m not saying go all out attacking, however our defence has been much more stable 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 choose this. Properly, 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 enable us to manage 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’t justify having both James or Lavia on the bench within the largest recreation of our season. So if we have now 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 a giant man. It’s harsh on Trevoh Chalobah as a result of he’s additionally been good and sure, I did say I don’t suppose you have to be dropping gamers who’ve been very good. However I additionally suppose Chalobah is almost definitely to be bought greater than Tosin in order that might be a distraction, who is aware of…
Forest are having some off area issues too and I truthfully suppose 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 issues me actually is our horrible away document this season and the house followers will probably be in full swing like at Newcastle, and this made our gamers very timid. We can’t come out like that this time.
I so fancy us for the win I actually do. It’s going to be removed from simple however we will actually discover targets towards this Forest facet in poor kind.
Let’s go!!! I’m buzzing!!
