Chelsea: Timo Werner time is here as a legacy is built

Okay, he didn’t score the brace as was predicted, but Chelsea’s Timo Werner scored the big winner in the six-pointer against the Hammers. And that was just fine, thank you. As Count Dracula in Carfax Abbey could have been slain, Werner drove a stake into the Hammer’s heart with a winning goal to send the Blues into the top four again in style.

As a Werner fan from the get-go, supporting him throughout his scoring doldrums while clearly seeing his major role in Chelsea’s vapid attack, it comes as not a huge surprise but a relief. Timo Time is here!

Any fan of Chelsea or anyone else could certainly recognize that Timo’s woes were due to an abundance of challenging situations that the German Flash has encountered moving to Chelsea and then encountering a completely new world due to Covid-19. Anyone, anywhere on the globe encountered the same real challenges but Werner’s were far different than most of us had to contend with. While avoiding illness and the drastic consequences, this fabulous footballer had to not only overcome moving to a new country, with a new culture, a new language (though he speaks really good English), a new team, and a new, very much more challenging league than the Bundesliga. That would be the English Premier League, the best of the best.

It is really not so difficult an interrogatory to answer if one has been paying attention to Werner’s efforts thus far in Blue. After a very good start to his Chelsea career, what we in the USA say is, he hit “The Wall” in his playing form. His play tailed off and clearly, he began to as we say, to be “pressing”. Trying anything and everything to score goals, his raison d’etre in the football arena, it just didn’t happen. Frustrating, yes. Body language conveyed the frustration. No doubt. But opportunities to make things right, most certainly were there. And that is the reason why Timo Werner was always going to be a star for Chelsea. The opportunities, the brilliance of pace, the positioning all were there. It was only a matter of time before they all coalesced into the real Timo Werner.

That time is now. Over the past few games, Werner has been magnificent. His performances have been consistent, man-of-the-match quality. He earned that title in spades having dispatched West Ham and allowed Chelsea to take the absolutely necessary six pointer home to Stamford Bridge. Brilliant. Timo has arrived and he will be a force to reckon with in the future for the Blues. And the future, my fellow colleagues, may just be now. An FA Cup Final is on tap, soon.

With the Champions League semi-final second leg at hand, Werner did more than arrive (maybe not explode, as such), but he scored the winner against Galactico squad, Real Madrid, and put that brilliant squad away in the first half of the second leg of the Champions League semi-finals. Werner as has been his play recently was a flash. His pace was a major factor to be reckoned with. He is really unplayable if he gets his lane and gets the pass that sends him in on goal. He usually doesn’t get that pass. Yet, against Madrid, he simply played his position and calmly put away a ball off the woodwork by Kai Havertz to scuttle any Madrid hopes to reach yet another Champions League final. Not a “beautiful” goal perhaps, but a thing of beauty for Chelsea fans. Indeed.

It proved the winner against the powerful, always competitive, and dangerous Madrid. Let’s make this, perfectly clear, the real Timo Werner has arrived. Beware, any and all opponents of Chelsea. The road ahead if you face the Chelsea and their smothering defense has just gotten much more difficult. Timo Time is here. Kai Havertz is healthy and Captain America is on the prowl. And for certain, it could be a good, a very good time for Blues fans. And guess what, the fun is just beginning. It may just result in two major cups this season.

But, whatever happens, wait until next season, when all the players coalesce. It’s going to be grand, for all the fans in blue! Trust me. Titles are on the way.