Chelsea 6-3 Leeds: Is Alonso Overlooking A Player Who Could Solve Part of Chelsea’s Midfield Problem?
Chelsea 6-3 Leeds was, on the surface, a chaotic Carabao Cup thriller that had no business being close after Leeds led 2-0 early in the second half. Inside a nine-goal, four-substitution fightback was a smaller, more interesting story: the midfielder Xabi Alonso started in a heavily rotated XI wasn’t just there to make up numbers. […]