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#5 Is Alvaro Morata the right forward for Sarriball?

Alvaro Morata failed to muster a single shot on target

Chelsea are famous for building effective teams that know how to win games but they have never been known to be a team that plays beautiful attacking football. A revolving door for managers is the main cause for that.

Antonio Conte and Maurizio Sarri are polar opposites on how they play their football and the new Blues manager will need time to establish his own philosophy at the club.

But the question remains; does Sarri have the players to play Sarriball? The style of play that took Serie A by storm was an upgrade on Guardiola's tiki-taka with a lot of focus on vertical movement rather than sideways passing.

At Napoli, he had Dries Mertens leading the line - a dynamic forward with both an eye for goal and an eye for the final pass. He could even hold the ball and lay it off for teammates. In contrast, Morata likes to receive the final pass but his finishing has been poor since he moved to Stamford Bridge.

Sarri will be hoping that Morata will be back to his best once Eden Hazard returns to the squad. But to get Morata to play in a system that requires a good reading of the offside trap will take some doing.