Chelsea have made their first attacking changes of the game \u2013 and it\u2019s bad news for their Brazilian wonderkid Estevao.<\/p>\n
Chelsea are 1-0 down against Brentford, and with 70 minutes on the clock, Xabi Alonso has had to make his move to try and change the game back in his team\u2019s favour.<\/p>\n
The new manager has opted to bring off striker Danny Welbeck and move Morgan Rogers up front. Geovany Quenda has come on in Rogers\u2019 usual position on the left.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s bad news for Estevao Willian. There was already concern that he\u2019s not starting in the league. Now he seems to have slipped further back in the pecking order.<\/p>\n
Tactical concerns all part of Alonso\u2019s Estevao decision<\/p>\n
Now of course there\u2019s more to it than just a hierarchy \u2013 Quenda is playing on the left, while Estevao wants to play on the right or centrally. And given we\u2019re not going to take off Cole Palmer, that would either mean Palmer or Estevao playing on the left where they aren\u2019t really at their best.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re sure Estevao will be the next man on \u2013 but still, the fact he\u2019s not even first sub anymore is not great for him. His frustrating will only be growing watching Pedro Neto toil on the right flank for 90 minutes.<\/p>\n
In other news\u2026<\/p>\n
Jordan Henderson was the outstanding Chelsea player in the first half, not for doing anything flashy but just for giving this team some calm and control in midfield.<\/p>\n
Henderson is making his debut tonight, a big moment for him and for Chelsea as they try to figure out their midfield depth chart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea have made their first attacking changes of the game \u2013 and it\u2019s bad news for their Brazilian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-620469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}