After ripping West Ham apart 3-0 with striker Nicolas Jackson contributing to all three goals, Chelsea will turn their attention to lowly Barrow in the League Cup on Tuesday before another major Premier League tilt next weekend against Brighton.
The League Cup fixtures give young players a chance to shine, but they also provide an important venue for struggling players on the periphery of the squad to make an impression.
According to Give Me Sport, Chelsea are planning on giving floundering left winger Mykhaylo Mudryk a shot to show the Blues why they shouldn’t just give up on him and sell him this winter.
Chelsea were already considering transferring the 88 million pound flop from Shakhtar Donetsk in the 2023 winter market this past summer, but with Enzo Maresca coming in to manage the team, they held off on that.
Mudryk has largely been very poor for Chelsea under Maresca, giving the former Leicester City manager no inclination to give Mudryk minutes in games with a modicum of importance, especially with others like Jackson and Noni Madueke proving themselves with great individual performances.
Barrow is the bottom of the barrel as an EFL League Two side, so you could just as well switch the framing from Mudryk having a final shot to impress to Mudryk needing to crush it.
Because look, if Mudryk can’t score a goal or otherwise perform brilliantly against a club like Barrow, then Chelsea might as well pack it in and cut their losses, Mudryk’s career wouldn’t be over, but, at best, a poor performance against Barrow would signal the need for him to rebound his career elsewhere.
That seems to be the prevailing belief around Chelsea regarding the 23-year-old, as he has been Chelsea’s worst performer this season in the Premier League with a a ghastly WhoScored rating of 6.37 for an attacking player.
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