Marc Cucurella has develop into the marmite participant on the market proper now amongst Chelsea followers.
There’s many Blues followers who fee him, and there are a lot of extra who nonetheless don’t fee him.
For me, I all the time stated that once 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 kind 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 could be overly rash and headless when enjoying.
His Chelsea kind has not been nice total. However the second half of final season he began to point out significantly better kind 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 kind has not simply been constant, it has been persistently implausible.
To this point on the Euros, Cucurella has:
Performed: 5
Tackles: 8
Ball Recoveries: 31
Passing Accuracy: 91.2%
Distance Lined: 53.27km
Common Ranking: 7.5/10
That’s not simply constant, that’s glorious.
Final evening he helped his staff 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 improper proper now as properly, which I feel we as Chelsea followers can collectively get behind and have a good time!
No matter you consider Cucurella and whether or not you fee him or not, I feel all of us must be collectively praising his Euros to date, and in addition, a significantly better second half of the season with Chelsea – he’s been glorious currently.
I’m not enthusiastic about 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 feel Cucurella is now going to show issues round at Chelsea? I’m sceptical nonetheless in the intervening time – my thoughts doesn’t simply overlook concerning the poor kind 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 present him, or any participant an opportunity to show me improper. Not essentially improper, as a result of as I stated I rated him at Getafe and at Brighton. However maybe to show my current ideas on him improper and present they’ll make it and be a Chelsea participant.
If Cucurella is enjoying properly then that’s solely a great factor for the staff 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 fantastic character, and I’ve heard he’s a extremely humorous and entertaining particular person to have round Cobham to assist maintain 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 convey 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 fantastic place forward of beginning pre-season with Chelsea, and his technical and passing capacity will make him an ideal Enzo Maresca participant, if he can minimize out the legal responsibility facet of his recreation. Jury stays out, however my thoughts is totally open.
