When Chelsea’s attacking injury crisis kicked in and Enzo Maresca called for the goal burden to be picked up elsewhere, Marc Cucurella was not among the obvious candidates to do the lifting.
As recently as mid-December, the 27-year-old still had a single-figure goal tally across the course of his entire senior career. In two-and-a-half seasons at Chelsea, he was still yet to find the net in the Premier League, having done so only once for Brighton before that.
