Chelsea agree cope with Brentford to make Bernardo Cueva their set-piece coach subsequent season, regardless of Mauricio Pochettino dismissing the concept of a specialist TERMAN WEBSITE

Chelsea have reportedly agreed a cope with Brentford to make Bernardo Cueva their set-piece coach from subsequent season.

In line with The Athletic, the 36-year-old will proceed working for the Bees till the tip of the present marketing campaign earlier than making the change throughout west London.

Mail Sport reported earlier this month the Blues had been trying to recruit a specialist set-piece coach to exchange Anthony Barry, who left the function in April to hitch former Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel at Bayern Munich.

Cueva joined Brentford from Mexican aspect Chivas in September 2020 after being recruited by the membership’s director of soccer Phil Giles and technical director Lee Dykes.

He started working as tactical statistician and has performed a vital function in Brentford’s progress from the Championship to established Premier League aspect.

Chelsea have reached an settlement with Brentford to make Bernardo Cueva their set-piece coach from the beginning of subsequent season

Throughout his time on the membership, the Bees have turn into famend for his or her set-piece prowess.

Final season, 16 of Brentford’s 58 objectives within the Premier League recreation from a set piece –  the second-best determine within the league after Liverpool’s tally of 17 – with half of them coming from corners – a quantity bettered solely by six groups.

Conversely, Chelsea’s attacking set-pieces specifically have been underwhelming this season, with solely relegated threatened Nottingham Forest, Crystal Palace, Burnley and Sheffield United having scored fewer than their six objectives within the Premier League.

Mauricio Pochettino’s aspect haven’t scored a single objective from an oblique free-kick and their tally of 5 objectives from corners is eight fewer than that of Arsenal, whose free-kick coach Nicolas Jover has been extensively credited with honing the routines which have contributed over 30 per cent of their objectives this season.

Mauricio Pochettino final month appeared to query the worth of specialist coaches 

Following Barry’s departure final 12 months, Chelsea had been one in every of only a handful of Premier League golf equipment with no specialist set-piece coach.

However Pochettino appeared to query the worth of specialist coaches in a press convention final month.

‘We have now specialists,’ he mentioned. ‘We’re a training employees in command of all the things.’