Play Liam Delap and Nicolas Jackson in the identical beginning lineup? Might that work? Sure, it completely may.
Once more, I’ve picked up on a response submit I noticed on X final evening after our 2-2 draw with Bournemouth, and this had me intrigued.
@VdykCFC wrote:
‘Genuinely assume if Jackson had one other ST subsequent to him then we may in all probability win the league. Take the stress of scoring off him and share it with the opposite ST — let him play his pure sport, which isn’t scoring 20 objectives a season.
‘Wholeheartedly imagine that the Jackson x Delap combo would reek havoc on Premier League defences, they’d complement one another so effectively. Want Maresca to present it a go when/if we signal Delap — Jackson x Delap may very well be the blueprint…’
So I feel this remark is a bit of excessive, I don’t assume by merely signing Delap alone we’d win the league. We want a complete new backbone to this crew to do this, as I discussed in one other article as we speak. Nonetheless, the bottom of what he’s saying I do agree with.
I imagine additionally that Jackson and Delap may genuinely praise one another if enjoying in the identical crew.
I’m utilizing Delap right here due to his fashion of play, stature, and him being probably the most closely linked striker to us proper now [from what our sources are hearing]. However folks know I’m additionally an enormous fan of Viktor Gyokeres as effectively, and he’s one other true 9 I might like to see are available in.
However I additionally actually price Delap and what he may carry. I’d like to see him come to Chelsea. I really like his presence up there, bullying defenders and scaring them foolish. He additionally has an excellent end on him, one thing I feel we’d see extra of when he strikes to a greater facet with extra attacking output.
And if he does come to Chelsea, why can’t Jackson be what they’d signal Mathys Tel for? A second or huge striker? Or a left winger? Simply watch the best way Jackson performs and what he’s greatest at doing, and inform me this isn’t true. How he collects the ball deep, goes on the flip, and simply travels at tempo ahead and infrequently will get a shot off. Think about if he did that huge on the left? Possibly he wouldn’t have the defensive output to be a winger on this Enzo Maresca system, I’m undecided. However he’s younger, so he may be taught. I see him rather more as a large participant than I do as a 9. I actually imagine this is able to be his calling. He does a job as a 9, for certain, however he doesn’t present the physicality, stature, and focus that we want in that place. Liam Delap does.
I’ve mentioned earlier than that I actually don’t prefer to look again an excessive amount of and discuss former gamers. However I can’t assist in these circumstance however return to the Didier Drogba and Nicolas Anelka interval and the way good their link-up was. They complimented one another, with Drogba and his physicality battling centrally and being an output, and Anelka coming in off the left as a large striker/winger. I genuinely see Jackson as Anelka. And if you happen to put extra of a goal man kind up with him, we may actually see super success.
Everyone knows Jackson wants extra assist with objectives as effectively, so shifting him wider would take a few of the stress off that facet of it, as a result of I’m certain he’s feeling it each time an enormous probability comes his approach and he fluffs it.
I clearly don’t know if Maresca would even take into consideration doing this, but when we’re taking a look at a participant like Tel, who’s extra of a winger than a striker, then why can’t Jackson simply try this and we signal an precise striker as an alternative? With the Mykhailo Mudryk scenario, perhaps Jackson may present the quilt there too?
I do know Tel has significantly better ball-striking than Jackson does in the intervening time, however I’m talking extra by way of the profile of Tel and the place he performs. Jackson can try this function and the cash can be higher spent signing and out and out striker, which is what we really want.
Earlier than you drop your ideas, I’m by no means saying that Delap is the degrees of Drogba, or Jackson is the extent of Anelka. However simply by way of profiles, they’ll play in the identical approach.
