{"id":10756,"date":"2026-01-09T07:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=10756"},"modified":"2026-01-09T07:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:54:14","slug":"how-will-chelsea-play-under-new-boss-liam-rosenior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=10756","title":{"rendered":"How will Chelsea play under new boss Liam Rosenior?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The midfield two in front of the back three is where Rosenior&#8217;s version of the 3-2-2-3 differs from Maresca&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former Blues boss often opted to invert a full-back, alongside Moises Caicedo, to form a midfield two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rosenior prefers both players here to be starting central midfielders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">By avoiding players having to swap roles, this appears to be a safer approach as it reduces the likelihood that the middle of the pitch may be exposed at any time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The new head coach will need to consider who best fits the role directly alongside Caicedo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/chelsea\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Chelsea<\/a>&#8216;s right-back and captain Reece James may even be considered for a central midfield role under Rosenior.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having coached Andrey Santos at Strasbourg last season, Rosenior will also know how to get the best out of the Brazilian in midfield, so he could be a contender.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Enzo Fernandez is the other obvious option, but given his attacking contributions Rosenior may opt to use the Argentine higher up the pitch.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c1wz004rz5yo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The midfield two in front of t&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}