After enjoying a record-breaking 12 game unbeaten start to life in the Premier League, Maurizio Sarri has suffered two defeats in his last three games and faces a daunting match-up against Manchester City this weekend.
The first cracks in ‘Sarriball’ are starting to show. Sarri’s honeymoon period in west London is over after four months and while a dip in results in the short-term was inevitable given the unexpectedly excellent start Chelsea made to the season, longer-term issues are starting to manifest: the N’Golo Kante quandary, chief among them.
Kante has worked exclusively alongside Italian managers during his three and a half years in England but while Claudio Ranieri and Antonio Conte made him the
The idea was to build a team around the playmaking qualities of the Brazilian-born metronome and
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Not only is Kante arguably the best at what he does in world football