Mauricio Pochettino has responded with an interesting breakdown of Chelsea’s Axel Disasi when asked about his first season in the Premier League so far.
Chelsea coughed up £39m (Sky Sports) back in the summer window to sign Axel Disasi from Monaco.
Remarkably, the French defender has played in 22 of the club’s opening 24 games across all competitions this season. In fact, Conor Gallagher, Nicolas Jackson and Levi Colwill are the only teammates in the Blues squad to make more appearances.
The centre-back’s played most of his games in the heart of defence, often alongside Thiago Silva. He’s shown versatility to drop in as cover at right-back sometimes, too.
Chelsea boss head coach Mauricio Pochettino is fairly positive about Disasi’s first six months at Stamford Bridge.
When asked how impressed he’s been by Disasi this season, Pochettino responded via Football.London: “I think still, his potential, we are waiting for more. He has the potential to improve. He is doing well, it is not easy to arrive to the Premier League and to perform and then, in a team, a process to build a team, defensive always struggle a little bit more than the offensive. We are happy with him because he can play centre back but can help the team, with injuries to Reece James and Malo Gusto, to play right back.
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