It is no longer news that since the controversial sending out of striker Diego Costa away from Stamford Bridge by former coach Antonio Conte that Chelsea football club is yet to get a striker that fit the level the club is playing at. After believing in transforming the under-performing Morata, head coach Maruizio Sarri has hard enough of him after giving all the playing time and physiological support Morata needed to turn a new live at Chelsea.
Short Term Plan of Higuain
Higuain had in the last summer snubbed Chelsea for AC Milan when Maruizio Sarri wanted to sign him but seems fate has brought them together six months after from parent club Juventus for the rest of the season. Having seen his short move to AC Milan unsuccessful where he netted just 6 goals in 16 matches with a conversion ratio of 10.7% shows how poor he was and Chelsea faithful are waiting to see how Sarri is goal to change this narrative with his former player at Napoli. The player had in the 2015/16 season in Seria A broken the top scorer's record held by Gino Rossetti in 1928/29 season when he smashed a whooping total of 36 goals in just 36 matches to win the golden boot award.
Higuain under Pressure
Higuan himself should be aware of this and as a professional player must have handled a lot of this situation before now as all the Chelsea fan will expect him to deliver at above 100%.this boils down to the lack of action in the front line throughout the start of the season and he should be ready to hit the ground running from his first game in the EPL but looking at the records so far, it shows that Chelsea fan will be in for another poor run of a striker for the rest of the season unless the records are not invoke.
Looking at 22 goals of his Seria A matches in 50 games from a dominating team like Juventus, then Higuain should have been of a goal scoring spree. When his statistics is compared with some strikers in the English premier league so far since the start of the 2017/18 season.
M Salah has 48 goals in 59 matches, kane is 44/59, Aubameyang 37/52, Aguero 31/44, Firmino 24/60, Lukaku 24/54, Higuain 22/50, Lacazette 22/54, G Jesus 18/46, Morata 16/47, Rashford 15/55 and Giroud 8/47
So, Higuain in in the level of Lacazette only bettering Gabriel Jesus, Morata, Rashford and Giroud and this does not speak well of a striker that will be the top nine in club like Chelsea that have to remain competitive to stay afloat. Chelsea decision to bring Higuain in going by the above statistics is good when you consider that fact that he is better than Morata and Giroud almost put together. With he help of Eden Hazard who is not a natural striker that has netted the same number of goals as Higuain since the start of the start of last season with bring a big boast in the Chelsea attack.
Chelsea is ranked the 2nd highest distribution of passes in the league with only 40 goals to show for it among the top six teams resulting to 10.8 conversion rates and have gone to missed 37 clear cut scoring chances.
Conclusion
We all are hoping that the coming in of Higuain to London will bring a positive response to Chelsea drought in front of the post and with the Sarriball style of play will result to a better harvest of goals for Maruizio Sarri pattern and push the team to finish top four without much stress.
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