Villa 0-2 Chelsea: 3 things learned from another Blues win

I love Graham Potter’s Chelsea adaptability, but

To get the best showings from the aforementioned stars, it is best to utilise them where they are most suited. This will also alleviate the problems being created by moving personnel, arguably unnecessarily. These athletes mostly know their craft, have worked to strengthen it for years, or for more than a decade. They should only be doing other jobs in a stopgap sense, when the scenario necessitates.

Potter’s tactic are rightly being praised for being particularly flexible and able to adapt to each of the competitors who face them. He did it at Brighton and is doing the same successfully at Stamford Bridge. However, the acclaim as well as admiration derived from this is really aimed at the adaptive hybrid formations; the system changed at lease three times vs the Villans. General repositioning is also cited, as opposed to actually changing a player’s main specialty.

The 47-year-old must be heralded for the beginning to his CFC career, it has been almost perfect. As good as any gaffer could hope for, surely. Though you can’t say wholly perfect – but what is? There haven’t been many mistakes, even the more radical strategies appear to be working for Potter. As such, my highlighted points about altering tasks may already be revised by he and his capable staff.