Craig Burley
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It's the player coming from a deeper run.
And if he'd played João Pedro, I don't know if it was just that or whether there was a fitness issue as well.
And João Pedro likes to float about and drop a little deeper.
And as soon as the centre-half steps out, that's when you get the deeper runs to coming in.
So it's not always, it's not really about playing a pacey front man against a back four that squeezes, because you're really looking for that front guy to come out with the line and then get your Enzo Fernandes or your wide players making those runs.
So whatever way Enzo Maresca went tonight, and you've got to credit him for getting it right, but I think whatever way he went with his front line, I think would have been successful against this Barcelona back four.
They've signed enough wide players, haven't they?
Mudrich is off and he's got his issues.
Pepe Roneto's done a good job for them as a wide player.
Obviously, they lost Madweki to Arsenal.
Garnaccio's the one that I'm still not convinced about.
Yeah, I mean, I think he's hot and cold, isn't he?
But this young guy, I think already from a very early stage of him,
putting on this strip, particularly at Stamford Bridge, you can just tell whenever he gets the ball, people are off their seats, aren't they?
There's an edge, there's an excitement.
Even you were off your seat when we were watching that.