Leading Chelsea at this time is a huge difficulty for coach Graham Potter, when there are many emerging issues, can the English coach arrange everything in his order.
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Switching from the philosophy of the previous coach, Tuchel, to a completely new philosophy, Graham Potter, is something that is expected to take a lot of time to implement.
Switching from the philosophy of the old coach at Chelsea to Graham Potter is considered extremely difficult.
He had to use the players that Tuchel left behind. He had to endure pressure from the coaching staff to win immediately when he had to use players from other coaches to implement his strategy.
While at Brighton, Potter regularly used two formations: 4-3-3 and 3-4-3, he flexibly swapped the two formations, depending on the versatility of each player in the squad.
It is likely that he will often use this type of flexible rotation scheme at Chelsea. The necessity of rotating the formation lies in the fact that the two full-backs will take on quite a heavy role.
Flexibly rotating the squad is also predicted to be extremely difficult for the current Potter players at Chelsea.
Coming to Chelsea, he will have two much better quality full-backs, Reece James on the right wing and his former student Cucurella on the left wing.
With a physical playing style and heavy midfield competition, Kante is the type of midfielder he dreams of and is also expected to be the center to build in his system, but unfortunately Potter will have to
Jorginho is not the type of midfielder Potter is aiming for.
Perhaps worth mentioning is how to use Jorginho, which is a problem that gives the coach a headache when this is not the type of midfielder he is aiming for in his team because of his slowness and inability to press.
There are still some other players in the midfield such as Mateo Kovacic, Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Conor Gallagher.
Perhaps Potter will have to consider whether to use Aubameyang or Kai Havertz, as Aubameyang is a center forward that suits his personality, but his poor performance in his debut match may have upset the fans as well as the Chelsea coaching staff.
Will Aubameyang or Kai Havertz be preferred by Potter?
As for Havertz, this player still plays stably, but he is not a typical striker, so the German player is not the type of killer striker that the English coach is looking for.
Perhaps waiting for Lukaku to return is still a long time coming. Will Graham Potter have to force Chelsea’s players to play according to his playing style, or will he ‘change things’ based on the people the Blues have?
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