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Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca has advised one of the club's most expensive players to model his game after Wilfred Ndidi.
Enzo Maresca has revealed his plan to transform Enzo Fernandez's game by encouraging him to make more runs into the box, and potentially score even more goals.
This tactic paid off on Saturday as Fernandez scored his first league goal of the campaign in Chelsea's 2-1 win over Leicester, and looked menacing throughout the game, making late surging runs into the Leicester box.
Maresca praised Fernandez's performance, saying:
"Enzo did really well today, and has been doing very well since we started."
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Fernandez's goal was a result of his newfound willingness to make runs into the box, a trait that Maresca has been trying to instill in him. Maresca explained:
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Maresca wants Fernandez to play like Ndidi
"I'm trying to convince Enzo in the same way as I did last year with Ndidi and Kiernan that attacking midfielders need to arrive in the box.
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"The reason why he scored today was because he was inside the box and if he was outside of the box, he wouldn't have scored the goal."
Ndidi contributed 7goals and 7 assists last season, after being transformed into a box-to-box midfielder, and has continued in the same vein this season, producing 4 assists in the league.
Maresca's hope is that Fernandez becomes an extra source of goals to reduce over-reliance on the likes of Cole Palmer and Nicolas Jackson.
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