Since being handed a rare start at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium towards the end of last month, Hakim Ziyech has not appeared for Chelsea.
The 30-year-old was a surprise inclusion in Graham Potter's XI for the Blues' 2-0 defeat to Tottenham in February but he – along with pretty much all of the other players – were far from their best against one of the club's fiercest rivals in Spurs. It was Ziyech's 19th appearance of the season, with the majority of them coming from the bench, with just nine starts to his name in all competitions this campaign. The brutal reality for Ziyech is that when he's stepped out of the starting XI, Chelsea have stopped losing – won three and drew one.
Ziyech has been present on the pitch for just 844 minutes this season, which is less than every Chelsea attacker that has been with the club since the start of the 2022/23 season (bar Armando Broja who suffered a serious injury last year). Even Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, who is almost definitely going to leave the club in the summer, has played more minutes than the Moroccan.
