For Graham Potter, the fact that the world will stop caring about club football for the next month is an absolute blessing.
His Chelsea dream has quickly descended into a nightmare, with some fans calling for his head to roll after a run of four defeats in five games in all competitions heading into the World Cup. With no wins in his last five Premier League outings either, there’s a whole lot that Potter needs to fix – and quick.
A little tactical tweak every once in a while is vital to any managerial success, but changing formation three or four times every game might be taking things a little too far.
Potter has chopped and changed things far too frequently in a team who are still trying to get used to his methods, and it’s abundantly clear that the players don’t know how to do their many, many jobs.
Chelsea need something settled, at least while they get to grips with Potter’s way of doing things.
This one is a little harsh as Potter lost both his preferred full-backs – Reece James and Ben Chilwell – to injury.
That being said, when they need replacing, how about we don’t go with Raheem Sterling and Christian Pulisic?
Deploying the two wingers in such a role was a bold strategy that didn’t pay off (and then some) against Brighton, so Potter needs to take it easy on the risks for now.
Marc Cucurella was supposed to be an excellent signing for Chelsea during the summer, and reuniting with Potter – the man who made Cucurella good enough to earn a £60m+ move to Stamford Bridge in the first place – felt like perfection.
The results on the pitch have been anything but.
In the similar wide centre-back role he played at Brighton, Cucurella has struggled tremendously in Chelsea blue, and he hasn’t offered much on the left either. Potter needs to figure out why.
The prolific Raheem Sterling joined Chelsea in the summer as the man to fix Chelsea’s goalscoring woes, only to score against a Leicester side in crisis and a Southampton team slowly heading towards one.
Sterling hasn’t lived up to expectations, but how much of that is down to the fact he has played in no fewer that five position since Potter joined is unclear.
The task here is to figure out why the Manchester City version of Sterling…
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