Tactics and Transfers: Overreacting is the enemy, Kepa, Felix, Potter and 4-1-4-1

You’re not going to sit there and say that a graceful attacking winger and an athletic olympian striker flying down the pitch isn’t exciting are you?

Chelsea don’t utilize that ying and yang, that ebb and flow, that be-like-water attack at the moment and that’s the problem.

Heynckes’ Bayern did it perfectly and destroyed Barcelona doing it. A 4-1-4-1 with Havertz and Felix as intertwning tens with Mudryk on the left and sterling on the right with Nkunku up top and Enzo behind them is the sort of thing poetry is made of.

That would work a charm.

It would take discipline but Chelsea’s players have shown a willingness to work in a way that older Chelsea sides did not. Havertz’s entire Chelsea career has been played out of position and he hasn’t complained once. Mudryk chases back and attempts to tackle people even if he does it like an attacker would.

For next season that would be the formation to move forward with.

The final note then is:

Chelsea must re-sign Kai Havertz.

I am so tired of hearing the impatient foolishness of people droning on about how he hasn’t been good enough. He was 20 years old when he joined during the COVID year. He was isolated and alone as a child and caught a particularly bad case of COVID that literally caused damage to his lungs. Can anyone play football without lungs?

He has at his worst been a good soldier and at his best displayed the sort of Zidane-esque potential everyone is still hoping he achieves. Potter appears to have found that allowing him to drift out to the wings and inward to create gets the best out of him and what do you know?

As Chelsea have figured out finally how to get the best out of their most limitlessly talented player they have started to play better as well.

Chelsea are moving in the right direction. Boehly and Eghbali are making the right moves. Things are getting better. Let’s get to the end of the season and win as many games as possible while re-integrating N’Golo Kante (an ace up our sleeves who could change the season) until then. Players will be able to be moved out and some actual training groundwork will get done. The only thing that Chelsea can do wrong right now is overreact and in doing so make all this suffering not worth it at all.