Chelsea took an enormous step in direction of their season aims on Sunday once they beat Liverpool at dwelling.
There’s nonetheless three large video games to play, together with two towards our direct rivals for a high 5 place, Nottingham Forest and Newcastle.
However earlier than we begin enthusiastic about the journey to St James’ Park arising this weekend, we’ve acquired to complete the job towards Djurgarden within the Convention League.
A cushty 4-1 first leg win has us in a commanding place, and plenty of Chelsea followers will already be enthusiastic about shopping for their Convention League Closing Tickets, however we noticed within the final spherical the place we misplaced at dwelling to Legia Warsaw that issues don’t at all times go to plan.
Enzo Maresca can be eager to select probably the most rotated crew he can get away with, given the magnitude of the sport on Sunday, and it is going to be fascinating to see if he retains up his philosophy from the primary leg.
In that recreation we noticed Enzo Fernandez and Moises Caicedo play 45 minutes every. Neither appeared affected by that towards Liverpool, so it appears a protected guess we’ll see an analogous setup.
Romeo Lavia gained’t be risked, possible not whilst a sub, he’s nonetheless solely match for one recreation per week, and gained’t see extra motion that that for the remainder of the season, we’d suspect.
Reece James will return to play in midfield as he did within the first leg, and we can even possible see a return for Kiernan Dewsbury-Corridor, who has made this competitors his personal over the course of the season.
Followers at Stamford Bridge can be most excited to see Tyrique George, who was unfortunate to solely get a quick cameo towards the Reds on the weekend. In opposition to a Djurgarden crew who actually didn’t persuade defensively within the first leg, the tough winger might actually feast.
Get by this second leg and we can be enthusiastic about the ultimate – and that’s the place Maresca’s job actually will get tough. We’ll face far stronger opposition than we have now on this competitors to date, whether or not it’s Actual Betis or Fiorentina who undergo. Does the the Italian coach keep on with the gamers like KDH and George who have gotten him this far, or play his strongest crew to safe the trophy in Wroclaw?
He gained’t be worrying about it simply but, but it surely’s very a lot a query mark that’s on the horizon for him.
