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Are Chelsea finally going to see the best of Alvaro Morata?
When Antonio Conte sealed the signing of Alvaro Morata from Real Madrid in the summer, many Chelsea fans lauded him as one of the signings of the window.
He was an instant hit at Stamford Br🎐idge following his arrival, scoring on his debut off the bench in a 3♏-2 loss against Burnley on the opening day.
Morata has been most commonly used as an impact sub es⭕peꦆcially at Madrid, but at Chelsea, he was quickly given the responsibility of spearheading the Blues’ attack.
He repaid the faith Conte showed in him early, notching a hat trick away at Stoke ꦐin mid-September.
🔥There was early talk of him being involved in a four-way battle for the gold🌳en boot alongside Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku and Gabriel Jesus.
Since then, it hasn’t worked 🌸out as well for Morata at Chelsea.
He went on a scoring drought soon after, although he did score a crucial winner against title rivals Manchest🐭er United in Novemb🐼er.
He still received criticism, however, culmina▨ting in a poor performance against Arsenal in the Carabao Cup, where he missed several guilt 💦edge chances to give Chelsea the advantage.
He then played 40 minutes in the FA Cup against ✤Norwich, managing to receive two yellow cards 𒊎in a matter of seconds, first for diving, and then for dissent.
The cold weather has been blamed for his lack of form, as well as a back injury which at one point Conte sugg🎃ested could force him to miss the rest of the season.
The English climate is differeౠnt t🌺o what Morata will have previously experienced in Spain and in Italy with Juventus, although whether that can be used as a real argument is debatable.
He proved that theory wrong today, finishing off a fine Chelsea move in one of the coldest games of t🌸he season.
The Spaniard has looked bereft of confidence in recent weeks and months, and it appeared that Olivier Giroud had overtaken him as Chelsea’s leading marksman until🥂 today.
Morata proved his class against a Leiceste🥀r side that, had it not been for a late mistake, would have taken the current Premier Leagu✨e champions to penalties.
Hi🦹s well placed shot after an excellent Willian through ball opening the scoring before an audacious flick hit the cros꧑sbar.
Although not at the heights of the likes o💫f Kane (24 goals) and Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah (28 goals), Morata has notched 10 goals of his own – a decent return con🧸sidering he has missed a fair amount of games with injury in a team that is equally reliant on goals from wingers Eden Hazard, Pedro and Willian.
With the cold weather subsiding, if that can be used as an excuse for some of Morata’s poor performances, and Chelsea’s chances of silverware increasing with an FA Cup semi-final, now is surely the time for Morata to produce some of his best form and lead Chelsea’s charge going into the back end of t𓆉he season.