#4 Fabregas – the pass master
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‘Fabregas is magic, he wears a magic hat...’ – the chants rang around Stamford Bridge all through the game. The Spaniard produced a master-class with an array of pinpoint passes. ‘He passes with his left foot, he passes with his right...’ sang the Chelsea fans and Fabregas did exactly that.
Diagonal balls, long balls over the back line, passes out wide into space, threaded passes through the defence and short simple ones to keep the game ticking – he played them all. The Spanish midfielder unlocked the Brentford defence time and time again releasing his team-mates into space.
He built up all Chelsea’s moves and put Loftus-Cheek and Batshuayi through on numerous occasions, but they could not finish. If he could just improve his fitness and his tackling, he would be an unstoppable force in the Chelsea midfield, that is perhaps the only reason why Conte prefers Matic to him.
He showed the Stamford Bridge crowd why he truly is a pass-master in the game even though it was only against Brentford.
