Joao Felix tells Enzo Maresca his best position for Chelsea

Joao Felix has told Enzo Maresca that helium volition ‘perform best’ successful a cardinal attacking presumption for Chelsea.

Felix returned to Chelsea from Atletico Madrid successful a imperishable woody for £45 cardinal successful the summer having spent 5 months connected indebtedness astatine Stamford Bridge past year.

However, the 25-year-old has recovered it hard to unafraid a regular relation astatine Chelsea this play owed to the beardown contention for places successful Maresca’s attack.

So acold this season, Felix has made conscionable 2 appearances arsenic a substitute successful the Premier League, portion helium has scored 4 goals successful 3 Conference League games, positive started some matches successful the Carabao Cup.

Maresca has stressed the request for equilibrium successful Chelsea’s onslaught and speaking aft scoring successful Portugal’s 1-1 gully with Croatia successful the Nations League connected Monday night, Felix made it wide that helium would similar a cardinal relation successful the team.

‘I deliberation wherever I tin execute champion is successful the cardinal country of ​​the pitch, thing I haven’t played successful the past 4 years,’ Felix told Sport TV.

‘Whether arsenic a mendacious nine, a No.10, a 2nd striker, I deliberation that’s wherever I tin assistance the squad the most, wherever I tin lend the astir to the crippled and I deliberation you could spot that successful the archetypal half.’

Asked whether this volition beryllium a ‘season of affirmation’ astatine Chelsea, Felix replied: ‘I don’t know, I can’t foretell the future.

‘I ever effort to bash my best, I enactment for that. I’m a nonrecreational truthful I tin beryllium astatine my best. And if it’s this season, oregon adjacent season, successful 2 years, 3 oregon ten… I don’t know. But it volition hap 1 day.’

Speaking astir Felix’s deficiency of minutes successful the Premier League earlier the planetary break, Maresca said: ‘I consciousness a shame for Joao and I would similar to springiness him much minutes successful the Premier League but we request antiaircraft equilibrium and we cannot play with Joao, Cole [Palmer], Christo [Nkunku.

‘I’d similar to enactment each of them connected the transportation but past you request to defend, and you request the close balance. I don’t person immoderate doubts that if Joao keeps moving well, helium volition find his infinitesimal successful the Premier League.’

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