Many individuals have been struggling to see how or the place Xavi Simons suits in with Chelsea, IF they signal him. Essential to say IF at this level as a result of nothing is finished, and even near being accomplished on the time of writing.
Nonetheless, it’s sparked up a debate, so let’s look into the place Simons can play and slot in, ought to Chelsea get their man.
Simons is a flexible participant. In actual fact, the 22-year-old is perhaps some of the versatile gamers I’ve seen shortly.
In his quick profession to this point, he has performed in SEVEN completely different positions, and other people is perhaps shocked to see that the place he has performed probably the most (59 occasions) is as a left winger.
He’s performed 41 occasions as a central attacking midfielder, 27 occasions as a RIGHT winger, 10 occasions as a centre ahead, 5 occasions as a centre midfielder, 2 occasions as a left midfielder, and as soon as as a second striker. What about that for some versatility?
In his most up-to-date season (24/25), he performed 16 occasions as a left winger, 15 occasions as an attacking midfielder, as soon as as a second striker, and as soon as as a left midfielder. I’d argue that he even makes a swiss military knife look ineffective!
As individuals have identified, IF Chelsea use him off the left, then he shall be extra prone to drift inside fairly than hug the touchline, that means Chelsea would wish Marc Cucurella to be a correct full again overlapping offering that width whereas Jamie Gittens could be the large out and out winger possibility.
As you’ll know, Enzo Maresca desires choices and alternative ways of breaking down low blocks. So the best way he strains up shall be depending on the opposition, and it’s nice to have completely different tactical choices and turn out to be much less predictable than we have been final season.
Tactical analyst Connor Holden posted these on his X account at the moment and has a video out on it later which I’ll attempt to share on the dwell weblog if I bear in mind.
He wrote:
“Two lineups I want to see subsequent season that gives good stability of traits, tendencies and stability
“Xavi Simons is ideal for Zone Alternative soccer, he’s a wonderful footballer – simply have to get the best items in the identical crew with him.”
I believe this makes all of it a bit clearer as within the pondering of Maresca/the membership to wish to carry Simons in. It’s not going to be a one-laced formation and tactic when now we have such versatile gamers in our squad going into subsequent season.
Solely time will inform if it really works, however I can see what they’re pondering with this and having so many versatile gamers and completely different lineups that they’ll flip to. I’ve been eager to see extra variation and adaptation in our ways and setups.
We additionally want a deep squad stuffed with high quality now we’re enjoying within the Champions League, if we actually wish to problem on all fronts and achieve success. The Premier League season is lengthy and hard, add the UCL into that as properly now and we’d like to verify now we have the power in depth to cope with it.
It could actually create points with gamers not enjoying, in fact, however now we have to place the crew first and the wants of the crew and membership.
I price Simons extremely, he’s a participant that ticks so many packing containers and I see him as a little bit of a maverick participant. I’d be happy to see him are available in particularly if we will choose him up for an affordable payment and we transfer different attackers corresponding to Joao Felix, Christopher Nkunku, and even Nicolas Jackson on.
