As Chelsea head into the season run in that has become very important now in the race for Champions League football, it might finally be time to just ‘let Estevao cook.’
For once, I’ll let someone else do the talking here though. One of the best strikers to ever play the game – Thierry Henry.
“Let Estevao cook, let him play. We need to enjoy this type of players in this type of games. It doesn’t have to be scripted all the time,” Thierry Henry said on CBS Sport at the weekend after the Brazilian shone.
“You wouldn’t like to play against him because he’s coming at you all the time, he’s coming at you the whole game, whether he’s having a good game or not a good game.
“He’s trying to test you all the time and see if you’re going to stop him or not.”
Yes, the old maverick-type players who are more of a rarity these days. Let them play, let them cook, let them express themselves.
Estevao is an exciting young player. When he is on the pitch at Stamford Bridge you can just feel the energy in the crowd lift. Fans get off their seats when he has the ball, this is something that doesn’t really happen with any of our other players right now. That says it all about the potential Estevao has.
I’m not against how he’s been eased into our club. I think it’s probably been smart. But in this season run in, it might now be time to hand him the keys to our UCL race.