Chelsea head instruct Thomas Tuchel has suggested he may additionally use loanee Saul Niguez out of function as he seems to get the exceptional out of the struggling Spaniard.
Saul made only his second Premier League start considering that coming back from Atletico Madrid inside the midweek victory over Watford, but he suffered the same destiny as his debut when he changed into hooked at half of-time.
The 26-12 months-old had toiled in crucial midfield along Ruben Loftus-Cheek as the Hornets deployed an excessive press that certainly unsettled Chelsea at some point of the stumble upon, and having been booked at some stage in the primary length Tuchel saw suit to substitute him at the destroy.
Speaking in his pre-in shape press convention beforehand of going through West Ham on Saturday, the German turned into asked approximately how Saul should get returned into the group after every other opportunity surpassed him by means of and spoke approximately the possibility of gambling him out huge.
"Saul had the early yellow card and changed into a chunk shy to play all-in inside the duels and for that he lacked a bit of his physicality, due to the fact he did not need to risk a pink card which changed into an amazing component on that evening now not to be one man down," Tuchel said.
"I assume that he may want to play in a wing-returned function for us, even supposing we play a dominant and offensive game because he's very sturdy in arriving the warring parties’ box, very sturdy at completing, and has good timing to reach at the second one put up with his head.
"We from time to time do that in schooling, that's why we've got the impression that he should perhaps be a great healthy and maybe inside the subsequent video games we must do that, due to the fact Ben Chilwell is out lengthy-term and loads of games are coming and we are able to maybe now not positioned each sport on Marcos Alonso’s shoulders."
Ironically, Saul has previously revealed that one of the main reasons he left Atletico Madrid changed into due to the fact he become regularly being played out of role on the left or proper by using manager Diego Simeone.
However, it seems he can also should make the same sacrifice if he desires to resurrect his underwhelming spell at Stamford Bridge.
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