Eyebrows were raised when Chelsea announced their team to face Wolves on Saturday. Reece James, Ben Chilwell, Raheem Sterling and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang were all benched, while Thiago Silva was left out of the squad entirely.
It meant starts for the likes of Trevoh Chalobah, Conor Gallagher and Christian Pulisic, with Armando Broja and Carney Chukwuemeka used from the bench. If it had gone wrong, Potter would have faced huge criticism, but his heavily rotated ran-out comprehensive 3-0 winners over Wolves.
On his decision to make seven changes, Potter said: "It's a good group here. We can't succeed with just eleven players, and I don't think it's right to just keep eleven going until they fall down, get injured and then we play the next ones. That is not good for the group dynamic."
