Marco van Basten believes that Hakim Ziyech should leave Chelsea next summer. The attacking midfielder annex winger cannot always count on a base place under manager Thomas Tuchel and played fifteen minutes as a substitute in the game against West Ham United (0-1 victory) on Saturday. The analysts in the program Rondo from Ziggo Sport conclude that Ziyech does not fit into Tuchel’s system at Chelsea.
“Ziyech again on the couch. When he gets in, that’s like a striker. He can do that too, because he is just a good player. I am sad to see. Rotating … He’s just not in the right place ”, Van Basten begins when Ziyech comes up. Khalid Boulahrouz concludes that ‘the system’ was not made for Ziyech. “He scored in that FA Cup match against Manchester City (last week, 1-0 win, ed.), Then you think: well, he’s through it”, Dirk Kuyt says. “The next game: boom, on the bench. Then you look at Werner, who can do whatever he wants. He plays over and over. He scored against West Ham, but he could have made one more. ”
“That Werner plays really badly, but doesn’t he come in much more often? The system this trainer plays is just not good for Ziyech. Then as Ziyech you have to say: ‘You know what? I have to plead, ”says Van Basten. Ziyech plays under Tuchel as a sort of attacking midfielder, while under Lampard he was usually posted on the wing. Youri Mulder argues that Chelsea has started to perform very well under Tuchel. “It is now about Ziyech, because I have nothing to do with that man,” said Van Basten, who still worked with Ziyech as a trainer of sc Heerenveen. “This is not getting along like that. I’m not saying it’s bad for Ziyech or bad for that trainer, but it doesn’t work that way. ”
“The system is leading for Tuchel. At Lampard you saw that everything was about Ziyech, but at Tuchel he is the last man on the offensive to end the ball ”, says Boulahrouz. Kuyt speaks of ‘counter football’, in which he sees Ziyech making ‘sprints of fifty meters’. Mulder understands, however, that Tuchel will not change his system if it is successful. “You also have players who can adapt a bit, making it a success. At Ajax he gave all the balls on Promes from the right. But yes, he can no longer play together with Promes. Frenkie de Jong also plays in a slightly different role at Barcelona and is very successful. ”
“It doesn’t feel good: you don’t play the football you want to play in a system that doesn’t suit you. You don’t feel the appreciation of the trainer, his status under Lampard was very different from now under Tuchel ”, Boulahrouz emphasizes. The former defender is supported by Kuyt. “Frenkie de Jong is developing very well, but that was a small development. Ziyech was brought in by another manager and is now playing in a position that is not his. The trainer has to agree with that, otherwise he would have used it more often. ” Ziyech has provisionally played 32 games for Chelsea, of which 20 as a basic player and in which he provided 5 goals and 4 assists.