Chelsea head into their Premier League conflict in opposition to Aston Villa this night nonetheless shellshocked after their midweek 5-0 defeat by Arsenal.
It was arguably the worst efficiency of the season by the Blues, and it’ll have Mauricio Pochettino scratching his head as to the place all of it went mistaken.
Far too lots of his beginning XI have been off the tempo in the course of the match, specifically Mykhaylo Mudryk, who failed to supply any significant attacking menace throughout his spell on the pitch.
Mykhaylo Mudryk’s recreation in numbers vs Arsenal
The Ukrainian was given a begin in opposition to the north Londoners so as to trigger some chaos to their defence, but it by no means materialised.
His distribution was horrible, finishing simply 14 of his 22 tried passes, whereas he failed to indicate a lot eagerness to get on the ball, taking solely 32 touches in his 66 minutes on the sector.
Mykhaylo Mudryk’s recreation vs Arsenal in numbers |
|
---|---|
Targets |
0 |
Assists |
0 |
Key passes |
1 |
Complete duels (gained) |
4 (1) |
Possession misplaced |
13 |
By way of Sofascore |
If that wasn’t unhealthy sufficient, his influence within the last third was principally non-existent. Mudryk made only one key go, failed with each his dribble makes an attempt, didn’t take a single shot in the course of the match, and created zero huge possibilities because the Gunners effectively and actually despatched the Stamford Bridge aspect packing.
The winger was given a match ranking of simply 4/10 by the Commonplace, with journalist Nizaar Kinsella writing that Mudryk was ‘predictably poor tactically and wanted to be coached by the sport by Pochettino’ which actually suggests he must be dropped to the bench forward of the tie in opposition to Villa.
Mykhaylo Mudryk’s statistics for Chelsea this season
Since becoming a member of the Blues within the 2023 January switch window, the 23-year-old has did not stay as much as his inflated switch price, scoring simply six objectives and grabbing 4 assists throughout 53 matches in all competitions.
Whereas that could be a pretty underwhelming purpose involvement tally, remarkably, Mudryk has gained solely 11 of his 41 Premier League matches he has featured in, which is successful charge of simply 26.8% (27%), extra proof as to why Pochettino ought to ditch him this night.
Amongst his teammates, the left-winger at present ranks fifth for objectives and assists within the high flight (5), whereas rating eighth for complete photographs per recreation (1), eighth for giant possibilities created (5), tenth for key passes per recreation (0.9) and fourth for profitable dribbles per recreation (1.4).
Whereas a few of these numbers are respectable, general, he must be doing so significantly better contemplating simply how a lot Chelsea paid to signal him.
Villa are on a strong run of kind in the mean time and will definitely fancy their possibilities of benefiting from a aspect that conceded 5 objectives only a few days in the past.
Absolutely Pochettino will rejig his beginning XI for the match, dropping Mudryk to the bench for somebody who may supply a a lot higher menace within the last third – specifically the returning Cole Palmer.
If, and it’s a giant if, Chelsea safe all three factors in opposition to Unai Emery’s males, it may give them the boldness to complete the season on a excessive observe.
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