Mikel Arteta seem to have faith in Nketiah, this is an opportunity for Nketiah to show how valuable he can be in the team in the absence of Gabriel Jesus who is now sidelined to injury. I like Nketiah, he is physical and has good pace, he also looks dangerous sometimes, I feel he needs enough time to improve and boost his confidence
Nketiah is a good striker, despite the fact that he may not be as good as Gabriel Jesus. Nketiah proved this to us last season in the absence of Gabriel Jesus because he played well and scored some pretty goals before Gabriel Jesus was back from injury. In the match, Nketiah did not perform as well as I expected, butI believe in him that he will do well if his getting good contributions from his teammates. Watching Arsenal matches these days, I am not satisfied with them because I expected them to play better because they have added a good numbers of good players I the squad. My surprise is that even last season, Arsenal started better than this without this players they signed to improve the team.
That's a lot of injuries to key Chelsea players and this is likely going to affect the team's performance in their next game having got this number of players injured who are yet to recover. Starting up the season with so many injuries has the possibility of denying them the top 4 spots, looking at how competitive it was last season. It is needful for the coach to step up his game to get Chelsea into the promised Land.
The injury is already affecting them because I don't see West Ham as a very strong team; they are an average team in the Premier League, so if West Ham can beat Chelsea early, even with their ten players on the field after receiving a red card, I believe Chelsea will not be capable of finishing in the top four in the Premier League table with this current squad. As I am seeing Chelsea now, they still need more good players, especially as an alternative if any of their players go down with injury. The alternative player can play as well as him, even if it is not 100 percent like their main player.