Marc Cucurella’s late sending off in last weekend’s victory over Brentford has handed Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca a headache ahead of Sunday’s Premier League trip to Everton.
Here are the Italian’s options ahead of the Blues’s final Premier League trip to Goodison Park, where victory would take Chelsea top of the table, at least until Liverpool play Tottenham later on Sunday afternoon.
Renato Veiga’s versatility has so far mainly been utilised in the Conference League, but the Portuguese international could come straight into the league team as the closest thing to a like-for-like replacement for Cucurella at left-back.
The 21-year-old has started only one league game for Chelsea, the 1-0 victory over Bournemouth in September, but has impressed in Europe and scored in the 3-1 win away to Astana earlier this month.
Cucurella picked up a booking deep into stoppage time as the Blues clung on to a 2-1 win over their west London rivals at Stamford Bridge but was then shown a second yellow card for his part in a fracas after the final whistle.
