Thiago Silva made a costly mistake for Chelsea, who are making sacrifices to shoehorn him into the team. Mauricio Pochettino has got a big call to make.
We need to talk about Thiago Silva. To say he cut a frustrated figure on Sunday would be an understatement. His ‘high standards’ can ‘cross the line into sulking’ both in training and on the pitch,, given the way the Brazilian literally stamped his feet at Stamford Bridge on Sunday.
All of Silva’s demands are reasonable. And in a team so bereft of experience, his should be one of the loudest voices. What’s not clear is whether Silva is waiting for his teammates to do the things his manager wants, or whether he expects something different of them compared to Pochettino. His mistake cost Chelsea a point. But the miscontrol in the opposition half isn’t the concern – that’s a one in a million event for one of the most skillful centre-backs in football history. It’s the inability to recover that’s tge problem, and not just when it came to Ollie Watkins’ winner, but also because of the effect it’s having on the way in which Chelsea are playing and which players are being used.
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