Enzo Maresca urged to drop Chelsea star: ‘It’s not working’

Enzo Maresca has been urged to see dropping Enzo Fernandez to find a amended equilibrium wrong Chelsea’s midfield.

Chelsea returned to winning ways with a 2-1 triumph against London rivals West Ham connected Monday, but the Blues are inactive searching for the aforesaid fluency with which they started the campaign.

Maresca’s broadside astatine 1 constituent looked similar they could situation runaway leaders Liverpool for the Premier League title, but a tally of conscionable 2 wins successful their past 8 league games has seen them autumn backmost into the chasing pack.

While a fig of players person endured spells connected the treament table, the continued lack of Romeo Lavia has possibly been the astir notable implicit the past weeks.

The Belgian has played conscionable 56 minutes of league shot since coming disconnected astatine half-time against Tottenham astatine the commencement of December and is again facing an indefinite spell connected the sidelines with different musculus injury.

When acceptable earlier successful the campaign, Lavia had displaced Fernandez successful the bosom of Chelsea’s midfield and looked to supply a much earthy equilibrium alongside Moises Caicedo to Maresca’s motor room.

And erstwhile Chelsea defender Paul Parker reckons the 21-year-old should beryllium thrown consecutive backmost into the starting lineup for Fernandez upon his instrumentality to afloat fitness.

‘Enzo Fernandez and Moises Caicedo don’t enactment together,’ Parker told CryptoCasinosUK.

‘Honestly, I would driblet Fernandez and person Moises Caicedo successful determination with Romeo Lavia. I deliberation that provides a overmuch amended balance.

‘I deliberation Fernandez is excessively easy coiled up and it tin springiness the crippled distant to teams. He’s got that occurrence successful the belly which is sometimes associated with Argentinian’s.

‘Caicedo is much of a thinker but tin bash the soiled enactment arsenic well. He’s a superb player.’

Parker besides urged Chelsea to see heading backmost into the marketplace for a much reliable goalscorer to supply contention for Nicolas Jackson.

The Senegalese planetary started the play successful awesome form, with six goals successful his archetypal 9 league games, but is present without a extremity since his victor successful the 2-1 triumph implicit Brentford backmost successful mid-December.

‘Even though Nicolas Jackson is simply a hard worker, I deliberation Chelsea could upgrade connected him,’ Parker added.

‘He chases everything and that is wherefore Enzo Maresca keeps picking him for the side, but Chelsea request idiosyncratic better. They request a centre guardant who tin instrumentality them guardant to win, and idiosyncratic with a spot of an edge.

‘There are truthful galore games that Chelsea person had wherever they haven’t punished teams and they’re connected a atrocious tally arsenic a result, adjacent though they bushed West Ham. I thought that they could situation for the rubric this season, but that situation has petered retired a bit.

‘While Jackson is idiosyncratic who tin beryllium brought connected to agelong teams precocious successful the crippled I deliberation if they tin get that striker presumption sorted, there’s a squad that tin vie there.

‘Chelsea fans aren’t astatine Jackson due to the fact that they tin spot however hard helium tries and that helium plays with his bosom connected his sleeve.

‘That spot of him is determination and the fans respect him for it, but they request a Drogba benignant subordinate if they truly privation to measurement guardant successful the league.’

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