Enzo Fernández’s debut at Chelsea: owner of an apathetic team

Last Sunday he played with Benfica for the Portuguese League, on Wednesday he became the most expensive Argentine in history and at the same time the highest transaction in the Premier League, on Thursday he trained and this Friday he made his debut. Enzo Fernández started, owned the midfield and even threatened to score a great goal in Chelsea’s 0-0 home win against Fulhamfor the start of date 22 of the Premier League.

Enzo lived a crazy week -although not as much as the month he spent in Qatar in 2022- but nothing to get him out of line when it came to entering the field. The former Defense and Justice and River he was on court for 90 minutes for DT Graham Potter’s team but despite his very good performance, especially in the first halfhe could not help his people raise their weak campaign what are they doing.

With the draw, Chelsea reached 30 points and remains in ninth place in the Premier, out of any qualification for European Cups. The London cast has 8 wins, 6 draws and 7 losses and on the next date, On Saturday the 11th, he will visit Manuel Lanzini’s West Ham (16th). Fulham, meanwhile, added a hoot for their excellent campaign as recently promoted, in which they are sixth with 32 units, in Europa League positions.

Enzo Fernández’s numbers

Despite barely sharing a practice with his new colleagues, Enzo was the first option of his teammates when it came to playing. The number 5 -number that he took from the outgoing Jorginho, idol of the club and figure of the 2021 Champions League champion- was very active in the first part and He showed off his excellent vision of the game both to get out of trouble in his own field and to hit the ball that left their teammates in a clear attack position. With 66% of possession for Chelsea, the Argentine had a lot of participation.

In the second half, with Chelsea down by 0-0 -very few scoring situations (barely two shots on goal) and wasted on top of that- and Fulham emboldened with the possibility of the hit, Enzo had to work more in defense to counteract the cons of the visit. The wear and tear materialized in some erroneous passes and clearances by the 22-year-old midfielder that brought danger to the Chelsea area, very well guarded by the Spanish goalkeeper Kepa. Anyway, with 20 minutes to go, the “blonde” managed to hit a long-distance bomb that passed very close to the goalkeeper’s right post and made the fans sigh blue.

In numbers, Enzo had an effectiveness of 85 percent in passes and with 62 hits out of 73 attemptswas the third Chelsea player with the most loans, behind central defenders Thiago Silva and Benoit Badiashile. The Argentine won 8 of 10 duels against his rivals, being the leader of his team in the field, in addition to being in charge of marking the tank and nine rival, the Serbian Mitrovic, on set pieces. Lastly, Enzo he had 6 saves and lost 14 balls.

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The sale of Enzo, the millions of Chelsea

Enzo Fernández was Chelsea’s eighth reinforcement in this transfer market and nothing less than the number 16 of the season for the London team, which He spent 121 million euros for the world champion and, in total, a whopping 611 million.

With “barely” 67 million in sales revenue in that same period, Financial fair play is one of the topics of the moment for the English clubwhich was sanctioned years ago for violating that policy and recently changed ownership, given the departure of the Russian Roman Abramovich due to the sanctions imposed by the British government after the invasion of Ukraine and the purchase of the club by an economic group led by the American billionaire Todd Boehly, one of the owners of the Los Angeles Lakers, of the NBA: the transaction was around 5 billion euros, a historical record for sports franchises. The money was frozen by the British government and is expected to go to war victims on the Ukrainian side.

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