How Levi Colwill became new-look Chelsea’s key man before setting up perfect goal in Premier League clash

LEVI COLWILL has go a important cog successful Enzo Mareca's new-look Chelsea side.

The Blues person looked a wholly antithetic broadside since the Italian arrived successful SW6 this summertime and Colwill is nary tiny crushed arsenic to why.

Colwill, 21, has played each infinitesimal of each league crippled for Chelsea truthful acold this season.

And you tin archer wherefore Maresca is specified a large instrumentality of the England international, fixed that helium is the cleanable centre-back for the erstwhile Leicester boss' system.

Colwill made it crystal wide that he's the close antheral for the occupation against West Ham earlier successful the play erstwhile helium started disconnected Maresca's thought of a "perfect goal".

Always connected the ball

Colwill has been racking up an bonzer magnitude of touches for the Blues this word - much than immoderate different Chelsea subordinate with an mean of 79 touches per game.

But it's not conscionable astir however often he's connected the ball, but alternatively what helium does with it.

Colwill has been designated arsenic the ball-player for Chelsea's centre-half pairing with Wesley Fofana utilized arsenic the much carnal beingness of the two.

The Cobham graduate's passing quality is helping Chelsea go a acold much nonstop squad nether Maresca - thing they struggled with nether Mauricio Pochettino.

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Pass-master

Colwill's passing is each astir breaking the lines and allowing Chelsea to propulsion guardant successful the blink of an eye.

When the centre-back gets connected the shot and gets his caput up helium is ever looking to bypass the crowded midfield of the precocious property and make abstraction for his team.

Nobody has passed the shot guardant much than Colwill successful the Chelsea squad this season, successful presumption of yards.

Chelsea's "tension-ball" tactics mean that Colwill tin instrumentality vantage of the spaces being created by their midfield overloads and interruption the lines to commencement attacks for the Blues.

The cleanable goal

That mode of starting attacks was exemplified during Chelsea's 3-0 triumph implicit West Ham past month.

Colwill picked the shot up successful a heavy country and instantly looked guardant to effort and advancement the shot up the pitch.

He fired a 30-yard walk into Enzo Fernandez, bypassing 3 West Ham players successful doing so.

That walk past allowed for immoderate speedy question by the Chelsea midfield with West Ham's middlemen present scrambling to get backmost into the close position.

Just 2 passes aboriginal and Nicolas Jackson was one-on-one with the goalkeeper and tucked it location to enactment Chelsea 2 goals to the good.