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2025-02-03 18:45:00
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Once he got back into football management, Graham Potter didn’t have to wait long to return to Stamford Bridge, a place he departed with many a cross word from fans. “If you look at the xG of the goal, it’s not that big a chance,” he said of the John McGinn goal for Aston Villa that did for him in April 2023. It became an epitaph for a manager too technocratic for the Chelsea soap opera. Does such a label attach itself to Enzo Maresca? Quite possibly, the positive signs of a bright start have faded. Some bad results have moved the dial. Like losing at Ipswich, for example.
G-Pott, as nobody sensible calls him, will know well enough the feeling. Now he’s the safe pair of hands at West Ham, who have steadied after Julen Lopetegui’s ill-fated regime was ended. The Hammers always do better with a sold type – Ron Greenwood, John Lyall and, yes, David Moyes. Given time, he could do a fine job. Will it start by snotting the Chels? Why not? It’s what we’re here to see.
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