Former Chelsea striker Chris Sutton is in control of the this 12 months, and Blues followers will likely be completely satisfied to listen to that he’s backed his former crew to beat Brentford on Sunday evening, 2-1.
However as traditional Sutton has discovered one thing to moan about – on this case, the transferring of the fixture to the lesser noticed Sunday 7pm slot.
The reasoning is apparent: Chelsea performed in Kazakhstan yesterday night, and . Enzo Maresca’s crew will presumably have immediately off, then will do only a brief preparation session tomorrow, with the sport the next day.
Sutton isn’t completely satisfied about it:
“It is going to be odd for followers to have a recreation beginning so late on a Sunday evening, however the Premier League have caved in to groups who need a bit of additional relaxation after taking part in in Europe on Thursday,” he wrote.
“I’m not certain the Premier League have thought this by means of, and so they might need opened a can of worms right here… the Premier League most likely have to provide you with a minimal time interval that groups ought to have between video games, and keep on with it.”
Chelsea needs to be ultra-fresh regardless of crew’s lengthy journey
It appears completely affordable that groups ought to get this little bit of additional time to assist after such an distinctive journey around the globe in midweek. In fact it’s a barely false difficulty on Chelsea’s finish due to the crew they picked to face Astana – not solely will now we have a totally totally different XI on Sunday, however there’ll in actual fact solely be a few
Sure there’s been restricted probabilities to coach, and the teaching workers all needed to go along with the crew, however nonetheless. You understand what… perhaps Sutton does have some extent in spite of everything!