Chelsea left-back Marc Cucurella has revealed that Enzo Maresca’s side deliberately focused their attacks down Liverpool’s right flank, exploiting Mohamed Salah’s advanced positioning.
The right-back role has been a talking point for Liverpool throughout the campaign.
Since Trent Alexander-Arnold’s departure, Conor Bradley, Jeremie Frimpong and even midfielder Dominik Szoboszlai have all been used there.
However, Arne Slot is yet to establish a consistent starter, with injuries disrupting both Bradley and Frimpong’s starts to the season.
Chelsea’s winning goal at Stamford Bridge came from that side of the pitch, and Marc Cucurella admitted afterwards that the plan had been to target the space left behind by Salah.
“We tried to attack always because we know that Salah is always ready to attack, to play the counter attack,” the Spaniard told Sky Sports.
“So we know that, we practice and the manager tells us that the space is maybe there. We saw that in the last minute.”
Cucurella added: “Yeah, I think they play one style of game that Salah is always ready to attack so we prepare that.
“If we do the crosses [with] maybe a lot of pace on them, so I think we try to make these things on our side and today it worked, and we can win the game in this way.”
“I think we created good chances but we didn’t score and I tried to give my last effort. Enzo put me a good ball and I tried to cross.”
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