This is excellent, Lewis - the point about Giroud + shooting/crossing angles especially is so so interesting.
Hoping Mikel n Co. can sort his confidence as for me that's clearly the main issue at play (and I'm not sure we've seen Arteta resurrect a complete 0 confidence player yet?), but excited to see another high-ceiling gamble given how Rice feels like a dead-cert success story, just for some spice in the XI.
Great article! Very interesting to see how is underlying numbers are very similar to his time in Germany. Obviously he was very young and Chelsea probably expected (pardon the pun) his output to increase but do you think he was overrated at the point of the transfer? I wonder how wirtz compares as well.
This is excellent, Lewis - the point about Giroud + shooting/crossing angles especially is so so interesting.
Hoping Mikel n Co. can sort his confidence as for me that's clearly the main issue at play (and I'm not sure we've seen Arteta resurrect a complete 0 confidence player yet?), but excited to see another high-ceiling gamble given how Rice feels like a dead-cert success story, just for some spice in the XI.
thanks lewis. this made me a lot more optimistic. i’m really curious to see where arteta will use him. exciting times ahead
Great article! Very interesting to see how is underlying numbers are very similar to his time in Germany. Obviously he was very young and Chelsea probably expected (pardon the pun) his output to increase but do you think he was overrated at the point of the transfer? I wonder how wirtz compares as well.