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| Bertrand Traore |
Chelsea manager Guus Hiddink claims Bertrand Traore has
earned his chance to lead the the Blues’ attack.
Diego Costa was missing from the side
which drew 1-1 with Stoke to rest a minor tendon injury but is expected to be
fit for the Champions League crunch against Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday.
French striker Loic Remy was
surprisingly left on the bench in favour of Traore against the Potters. And the
20-year-old grabbed his chance on only his second Blues start by firing in a
memorable goal from 20 yards.
“You see in parts of the game that he
has quality,” said Hiddink. “He has shown that already when he has come on.
It’s a little bit different when you start at Stamford Bridge from the
beginning.
“You can see he has quality but young players have to try
to control and dominate their nerves and you could see that at the beginning.
But he showed with the goal that he has the capacity to do a lot.
“The strikers compete amongst
themselves in a healthy way. If they show what they do in training then it will
be rewarded.”
Traore’s 39th-minute strike appeared
to have put Chelsea on their way to a fourth successive win, but Mame BiramDiouf snatched a draw for Stoke five minutes from time.
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