Former Chelsea forward Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink explains that the club desperately need to buy another striker if they want to compete for the title alongside Manchester City and Liverpool.
Despite the recent good form of Álvaro Morata, Hasselbaink believes that the Blues need to have another option to rely on in their Premier League title hunt.
Speaking to Sky Sports News, Hasselbaink said:
I think every club that is going to challenge for the Premier League needs three strikers.
For me they [Chelsea] still have a gap to close on Man City, but they are improving and if they can keep on improving they can hopefully catch them.
[Sarri] has changed the way they play totally. They now play more in the defensive third of the opposition. They have the ball 60 or 70 per cent of the time – that was totally different last year.
You see smiles on the players’ faces again and they’re playing attractive, attacking football.
Morata has scored five Premier League goals in 11 appearances so far this season, despite starting the campaign in a rough patch.
While Morata has received his fair share of criticism in the past, Hasselbaink believes he will start to come good now following a upturn in confidence. Hasselbaink continued:
Morata will score goals. He is a confidence person. He is so good at getting behind the defence and he needs to keep on doing that.
Everybody says ‘he needs to do this and needs to do that’ but he shouldn’t concentrate on becoming something he is not. He should embrace what he has got.
He’s not somebody who likes the contact of the centre-halves, but he shouldn’t have to play like that. If he keeps on playing to his strengths I believe he will score a lot of goals.
