Chelsea were 3-0 up and cruised to a win against West Ham in yesterday’s Premier League early kick off. It was a good showing all around.
The home team were a bit of a shambles, especially early on, but that shouldn’t detract from the quality of Chelsea’s football in that first period. In particular we were loving Moises Caicedo, who was all action shielding the back line and also playing forward.
His lovely weighted first time pass through for Nicolas Jackson set up the second goal.
It wasn’t just fans who are loving his performance: Romeo Lavia has just Tweeted “Moi, embarrassed emoji, fire emoji.”
Moi 😳🔥
— Lavia Roméo (@RomeoLavia) September 21, 2024
Now this is all well and good – we love to see teammates supporting teammates. But as plenty of the commenters have noted underneath – it would be nice to see Lavia playing with Moi rather than just Tweeting about him.
We were really hoping – perhaps not expecting – to see him named on the bench today. But nothing doing.
The midfielder picked up an injury at the end of August, which he himself (also on his Twitter feed) said was “nothing to worry about.”
“I’ll be back very soon” he promised. Well, it’s a month later and he’s still out. Let’s hope this doesn’t turn into a repeat of last season, where he made one brief cameo appearance in the whole campaign. We had hoped a long break would put all that behind – him and his preseason showings were very promising.
5🌟 team performance! Let’s keep it going.
ps: I’ll be back very soon. Nothing to worry about it’s going to be a long and exciting season for us Blues.💙
— Lavia Roméo (@RomeoLavia) August 25, 2024
Lavia back to struggles of last season
We still have faith this can be a great season for Romeo, but it’s off to the worst possible start.
And in the meantime, at least Caicedo is in great form and covering nicely for his absent Belgian colleague. We’re curious to see whether Lavia will be given some minutes with the B team in the Carabao Cup against Barrow tomorrow night to help him get back up to match speed.
