EPL: Carragher names Chelsea player not comfortable with Alonso's tactics

Former Liverpool defender, Jamie Carragher has identified Maxence Lacroix arsenic the Chelsea centre-back who appears uncomfortable with Xabi Alonso's tactical framework.

Carragher contends that the £52 cardinal summertime signing from Crystal Palace lacks the requisite mobility for the demanding man-to-man antiaircraft responsibilities that Alonso's strategy necessitates.

During an quality connected The Overlap Fan Debate presented by Sky Bet, the ex-Liverpool prima praised Lacroix's performances successful Palace's three-defender enactment but expressed reservations regarding his suitability for a four-man antiaircraft line.

The appraisal followed his reflection of Chelsea's 2-0 location nonaccomplishment to Tottenham connected October 24, alongside investigation of further fixtures passim the existent campaign.

He said, “But I look astatine the signing of Maxence Lacroix, and I truly liked him astatine Crystal Palace successful a backmost three.

"But I was watching him against Tottenham and successful different games this season, and I was seeing him pressing man-to-man, and everyone was jumping out, and it conscionable didn't look comfy to me, oregon mobile capable to beryllium successful a backmost 4 and jumping retired of man-to-man marking and jumping retired to James Maddison.”

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