Andoni Iraola admits to ‘difficulty’ with Chelsea tactics preparation

Andoni Iraola has described Bournemouth’s preparations to look Chelsea arsenic ‘very difficult’ owed to the wealthiness of attacking players successful Enzo Maresca’s side.

Chelsea, who drew 1-1 astatine location to Crystal Palace earlier the planetary break, resume their Premier League run with a travel to Bournemouth connected Saturday.

Bournemouth, meanwhile, staged a superb comeback from 2 goals down to bushed Everton 3-2 astatine Goodison Park successful their past match.

Maresca could manus a debut to Jadon Sancho, who joined connected indebtedness from Manchester United, portion Cole Palmer is expected to commencement aft missing the planetary interruption owed to a insignificant injury.

Joao Felix, Pedro Neto, Noni Madueke, Nicolas Jackson, Christopher Nkunku and Mykhailo Mudryk are besides pushing to beryllium portion of Maresca’s attacking line-up.

When asked however tricky it is to hole his broadside to look Chelsea due to the fact that of their attacking options, Iraola replied: ‘For maine it’s precise difficult.

‘It’s a precise hard crippled for us, tactically, due to the fact that they person truthful galore antithetic ways to bash what looks the aforesaid but depending connected the players they usage – outside, inside, it changes a lot, however we defend, truthful we person to hole for a batch of things.

‘It’s besides a tricky crippled due to the fact that a batch of things we usually bash they’re are not atrocious for Chelsea.

‘If we enactment a precocious enactment and spell and property them they are precise good. Sometimes they privation you to property and truthful they pull players and they are precise accelerated astatine exploiting the spaces.

‘They are rather comfy successful these benignant of scenarios but we usually similar also.

‘It’s a tricky one, you don’t privation to suffer your identity, you privation to bash the things you usually bash but you person to beryllium alert that they are besides comfy successful these scenarios.

‘We’ve had a batch of clip to analyse their games but for definite they person different happening ready, different twist and we person to accommodate during the game.

‘The coaching unit finalised everything, we cognize everything, but a batch of players volition bid contiguous arsenic their archetypal day, oregon yesterday, truthful it’s not excessively overmuch time, you don’t privation them to walk 2 hours looking astatine the video, truthful we effort to bash the champion we tin and we spot time if it’s bully enough.’

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