“Impactful” Chelsea player will be one to get them UCL this season and it’s not Cole Palmer | OneFootball

One impactful Chelsea player will be the one to get them over the line for Champions League football this season and it’s not Cole Palmer.

The news comes after Chelsea beat Premier League winners Liverpool 3-1 at Stamford Bridge on Sunday afternoon in what was a fantastic overall performance by The Blues.

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Cole Palmer was back in fine form for Chelsea and is one of the reasons that they put in such a good performance, with the stats proving this as well.

Palmer was also involved in Chelsea’s first goal of the game in the opening minutes, as well as some good work by Romeo Lavia and Pedro Neto to setup Enzo Fernandez to provide a lovely finish to get things going.

Lavia was instrumental

Chelsea were ticking in midfield against Liverpool and played much more direct, in transition, and without the lion share of possession.

Romeo Lavia was key to this because he is such a progressive player and is always looking to move forward with the ball whether through a pass or dribbling.

Law raves about Lavia

Romeo Lavia arrives at Craven Cottage. (Photo by Ryan Pierse/Getty Images)

Chelsea reporter for The Telegraph, Matt Law, has been raving about Lavia on the London is Blue Podcast this week after the Liverpool game.

Law said:

“I think I’ve probably actually forgotten how good they’ve been earlier in the season with Romeo Lavia in there and how impactful he actually is to the team and the system and people around him.

“And I kind of, when Lavia came back at the end of the season, I kind of, well, that’s good, but I didn’t really think, oh, wow, that’s going to change Chelsea.

“And actually, I think you could be the man who just will have got them over the line in the end. I mean, I’ve always been confident they would get there, but I think Lavia is really, really giving them something extra.

“Well, look at that first goal against Liverpool, and it was exactly that. Lavia takes it from deep, Palmer turns Curtis Jones a couple of times. I think there’s been a lot of times at this season where that pass goes backwards, or it goes sideways, and it all slows down.

“No bump into Palmer’s feet. Palmer obviously head up straight towards goal. It was a really incisive move, and it came from Lavia playing like that from deep, and they haven’t been playing like that from deep without him. It’s all been slow, sideways, backwards and sideways.”