Marc Cucurella has turn out to be the marmite participant on the market proper now amongst Chelsea followers.
There’s many Blues followers who fee him, and there are various extra who nonetheless don’t fee him.
For me, I at all times stated that after I watched Cucurella at Getafe, I believed he was a wonderful left again. At Brighton as properly he was good. Then as soon as he arrived at Chelsea his type fully dipped, and let’s not ignore the truth that he has had some very poor video games for us and has typically had focus lapses and may be overly rash and headless when taking part in.
His Chelsea type has not been nice general. However the second half of final season he began to indicate a lot better type and higher high quality, leaving out extra of the mind farts from his recreation. And he has seemingly taken that into the Euros.
Make no mistake, his Euros type has not simply been constant, it has been persistently incredible.
Thus far on the Euros, Cucurella has:
Performed: 5
Tackles: 8
Ball Recoveries: 31
Passing Accuracy: 91.2%
Distance Coated: 53.27km
Common Score: 7.5/10
That’s not simply constant, that’s wonderful.
Final evening he helped his crew attain the ultimate of the Euros, beating France 2-1. And as soon as once more, he was one of many higher performers on the pitch.
Stats vs France:
Cucurella registered extra ahead passes (24) than every other French participant managed all recreation between the 2 sides final evening.
Cucurella has registered extra profitable tackles (9), extra profitable interceptions (6) and extra blocks (4) than every other Spanish participant throughout the Euros.
He’s actually proving Gary Neville fallacious proper now as properly, which I feel we as Chelsea followers can collectively get behind and rejoice!
No matter you consider Cucurella and whether or not you fee him or not, I feel all of us should be collectively praising his Euros thus far, and in addition, a a lot better second half of the season with Chelsea – he’s been wonderful recently.
I’m not focused on anybody calling this a flip flop opinion, I’ll ALWAYS reward our gamers when it’s due and so they deserve the reward, simply as I’ll criticise after I assume they’re taking part in badly. It’s so essential to do each and drop any agendas. It’s essential to name out positivity simply as a lot as it’s negativity.
Do I feel Cucurella is now going to show issues round at Chelsea? I’m sceptical nonetheless in the meanwhile – my thoughts doesn’t simply neglect in regards to the poor type he has proven and the various errors he has made at Chelsea. However I’m not so closed minded that I wont be ready to provide him, or any participant an opportunity to show me fallacious. Not essentially fallacious, as a result of as I stated I rated him at Getafe and at Brighton. However maybe to show my current ideas on him fallacious and present they will make it and be a Chelsea participant.
If Cucurella is taking part in properly then that’s solely an excellent factor for the crew I really like, so why would anybody be in opposition to that?
And the factor that makes it even simpler to again Cucurella is as a result of he’s only a actually nice man, a terrific character, and I’ve heard he’s a very humorous and entertaining particular person to have round Cobham to assist hold morale up. He deserves the reward, so we should always all completely be giving it to him proper now for his nice and constant performances on the Euros. If England can’t win it, then I’m all for Spain and Cucurella to deliver it dwelling!
I don’t know what his Chelsea future holds, the membership would hearken to good gives for each/both of Ben Chilwell and Cucurella. So we are going to see. However he’s put himself in a terrific place forward of beginning pre-season with Chelsea, and his technical and passing means will make him an ideal Enzo Maresca participant, if he can reduce out the legal responsibility facet of his recreation. Jury stays out, however my thoughts is totally open.
