Marc Cucurella has grow to be the marmite participant on the market proper now amongst Chelsea followers.
There’s many Blues followers who price him, and there are lots of extra who nonetheless don’t price him.
For me, I at all times mentioned that once I watched Cucurella at Getafe, I believed he was a wonderful left again. At Brighton as nicely 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 usually had focus lapses and might be overly rash and headless when enjoying.
His Chelsea type has not been nice total. 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 implausible.
To date 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 glorious.
Final night time he helped his workforce 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 some other French participant managed all recreation between the 2 sides final night time.
Cucurella has registered extra profitable tackles (9), extra profitable interceptions (6) and extra blocks (4) than some other Spanish participant through the Euros.
He’s actually proving Gary Neville incorrect proper now as nicely, which I believe we as Chelsea followers can collectively get behind and rejoice!
No matter you consider Cucurella and whether or not you price him or not, I believe all of us must be collectively praising his Euros to date, and in addition, a a lot better second half of the season with Chelsea – he’s been glorious recently.
I’m not considering anybody calling this a flip flop opinion, I’ll ALWAYS reward our gamers when it’s due they usually deserve the reward, simply as I’ll criticise once I assume they’re enjoying badly. It’s so necessary to do each and drop any agendas. It’s necessary to name out positivity simply as a lot as it’s negativity.
Do I believe Cucurella is now going to show issues round at Chelsea? I’m sceptical nonetheless in the intervening time – my thoughts doesn’t simply neglect concerning 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 incorrect. Not essentially incorrect, as a result of as I mentioned I rated him at Getafe and at Brighton. However maybe to show my latest ideas on him incorrect and present they will make it and be a Chelsea participant.
If Cucurella is enjoying nicely then that’s solely factor for the workforce I really like, so why would anybody be towards that?
And the factor that makes it even simpler to again Cucurella is as a result of he’s only a actually nice man, an excellent character, and I’ve heard he’s a very humorous and entertaining particular person to have round Cobham to assist preserve morale up. He deserves the reward, so we must 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 residence!
I don’t know what his Chelsea future holds, the membership would hearken to good affords for each/both of Ben Chilwell and Cucurella. So we’ll see. However he’s put himself in an excellent place forward of beginning pre-season with Chelsea, and his technical and passing skill will make him an ideal Enzo Maresca participant, if he can lower out the legal responsibility facet of his recreation. Jury stays out, however my thoughts is totally open.
