Maresca has just released Chelsea’s next Essien and this is not Caicedo

Chelsea In all competitions, he achieved three wins in a row, beating Leicester 1-0 at Stamford Bridge, after their previous two victories against Copenhagen and Southampton.

Enzo Maresca Side had to be adapted to the last weeks with the characters of Nicolas Jackson, Nona Madueke and Marc Guiu who disappeared in the attack, but also the Roméo Lavia disappeared in the middle of the field, which led to some diverting from Italian to achieve balance aside.

Because of this, Pedro Pedro played a new role as directed at the center, and he is not the only one to be shown in a new position.

Chelsea had players who could do it in the past, stars who are capable of being a Swiss army of knife for their manager and offer tactical solutions when needed in different positions. We saw it significantly under José Mourinho in his first magic at a club where Michael Essien covered two positions on the field.

A unique role of Michael Essien in Chelsea

Essien joined Chelsea in 2005, signing from Lyon for a A fee of around £ 24.4 million.

In his nine years at the club, The midfielder was a rock, making 256 appearancesscoring 25 goals, securing 20 assists and a total of 20,303 minutes.

International Gane was known as the central midfielder, but he had the ability and versatility to solve problems for his managers, playing as a right back, left-back, right-handed shot, central back, left-midfielder, and even once as a central forward.

Under Mourinho in Chelsea, Essien played various roles, often starting some games in the defensive midfielder and others in the right back when needed.

So why is that relevant now? Well, Chelsea could have his own next Essien, which gives Mareca the opportunity to solve the problem and make the game plan.

Chelsea’s new Essien

When evaluating players in a team with similar attributes, they immediately come to mind Moises Caicedo. However, in this case we are not talking about him.

Club captain Said James He came through Chelsea Academy, joined Blues when he was six years old.

Full back already has left 170 appearances for the clubA scoring 13 goals, offering 23 assists and a total of 11,683 minutes, now finds himself as a skipper.

Unfortunately, a 25-year-old has been left to injuries during an early career, Missing 132 games alreadygaining 21 different injuries and missing a total of 742 days.

This came to a slight transition from a flying wing that used to be, because Chelsea now wants to prioritize his fitness and availability.

Under Thomas Tuchel, you can see during the 2021/22 season, the type of player James, flying in attacking areas, providing an attacking threat and exit for the side, while still having athleticism to recover in defensive transitions.

However, Maresca stated: “I see Reece as a midfielder. From the first day“

His leadership, physicality and comfort on the ball are very useful in the central areas for this inexperienced side of Chelsea, as it provides a key component of their spine.

Joe Cole even said he wanted to “world class“Star, James, in the England team, from the back of his recent performances.

James, who had been coming to the middle of the field in recent weeks, allowed Maresci to experiment on the right side of the field, allowing to overlap in the attacking areas on the right back with the defensive strength behind James, while Enzu Fernández also gave a free role in the middle of the field, to wander and create in different areas.