Rom?o Lavia is the ideal cog in Enzo Maresca?s machine ? when he is fit

Chelsea are far better with Lavia ? as they showed against Liverpool ? but he is yet to complete a full game for the club
By WhoScored
?When he is fit, he is one of the best midfielders,? enthused Enzo Maresca after Chelsea?s 1-0 win over Everton a few weeks ago. His team had laboured to a narrow home win but the manager was full of praise for his young midfielder. Chelsea have paid huge transfer fees for midfielders in recent years, breaking the British transfer record to sign Enzo Fern?ndez from Benfica for ?107m and then upping the record to bring in Mois?s Caicedo from Brighton, but Maresca knows his team is at its best when Rom?o Lavia is available.
Fern?ndez and Caicedo have performed superbly in recent weeks as Chelsea have chased down a place in the Champions League. The Ecuadorian has done particularly well at right-back, having been moved out of midfield to accommodate Lavia in the starting XI. Caicedo has dropped into defence and operated as an inverted right-back, doing so to a better standard than both Reece James and Malo Gusto.
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