Chelsea make the journey to Ipswich for our subsequent Premier League recreation on Monday night time this week because the busy festive interval continues and we play our closing match of 2024.
After two poor performances for my part, we have to see a little bit of a bounce again on this recreation, but it surely’s not going to be straightforward regardless of the house facet being nearly a useless cert for relegation at this level and to drop proper again right down to the championship which let’s be trustworthy, is their stage.
Those that watched Arsenal beat Ipswich on Friday night time will know precisely what to anticipate. It will likely be a excessive possession recreation once more for Chelsea, and Ipswich might be on the lookout for that smash and seize, precisely what Fulham did to us in our final match and what Everton tried to do too.
Ipswich lowered Arsenal to 13 makes an attempt on their purpose, with 5 of them being on the right track. In addition they had 69% possession. Ipswich had an abysmal simply 3 makes an attempt on Arsenal’s purpose, which is completely horrible.
I count on to see the a lot of the identical actually on Monday night time and the onus might be on Chelsea to create and end probabilities, which we completely must be doing in opposition to this facet.
Liam Delap has a purpose in him, we all know that, and he might be auditioning instantly in entrance of Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca on this recreation. The Italian paid Delap some large compliments final night time. However the Chelsea goal goes to need to feed off scraps, even when he will get these to be trustworthy. His job might be to chase and trouble from the entrance, however I don’t count on that to be too intense of a press.
Chelsea are critically wanting into signing Delap and as reported some weeks again now on right here, contact has been made to each participant and membership from Chelsea as an preliminary enquiry. His membership clearly don’t need to promote him in January, however for the summer season he’s 100% a striker excessive on Chelsea’s checklist of targets.
Chelsea have been scouting him this season but it surely’s so robust for him as a result of he’s preventing a shedding battle taking part in for such a poor facet and will get to see hardly any of the ball.
Let’s be trustworthy, Chelsea have to be going there and getting all three factors on Monday night time regardless. And I imagine we’ll too.
I’d count on to see some adjustments and we may see Noni Madueke return to the beginning lineup after some poorer performances from Jadon Sancho particularly, and even Pedro Neto within the Fulham recreation. Madueke has been punished for a string of behaviour associated incidents and never placing sufficient effort in to coaching, however Maresca confirmed that he has taken the punishment effectively and I don’t foresee any additional squad omissions for now.
Tosin Adarabioyo was poor within the final recreation however I think will go once more for this one within the continued absence of Wesley Fofana. The remainder I feel picks itself till we get extra of our injured gamers again.
I really hope all my feedback about Delap having to feed off scraps don’t come again to chew me, however that’s on us. We’ve got to interrupt them down and rating, and I need to see extra concepts and plans to do this this recreation. Maresca must step up a bit right here too.
