Mauricio Pochettino can unleash brand new Chelsea attack vs Luton with three changes

Halfway through the Premier League season and Chelsea's top scorer has more goals than Arsenal's. Mykhailo Mudryk has the same amount of open play goals as Bukayo Saka. Nicolas Jackson averages a goal, assist or yellow card every 85 minutes and there are eight places between the two sides being compared.

Mauricio Pochettino has tried and struggled to find a consistent answer to the attacking problems that have not just plagued his first term in charge but also nearly every Chelsea manager since 2017. Ben Chilwell at left-wing, Cole Palmer as a deeper midfielder, Ian Maatsen running around to cause chaos as a late substitute. Mykhailo Mudryk.

There is very little knowing just what the Blues will bring each game across the pitch. It could be a brilliant rear-guard effort backed up by stellar goalkeeping or a masterclass in defence mistakes and giving goals away. The midfield could end up all on a yellow card after five minutes or running the show. Up front there could be goals and chances raining down or lethargic build-up and wayward finishing.

To balance these things out, to try and find a middle ground to actually put foundations on every week, Pochettino has chopped and changed. He has adapted to injuries coming at a near weekly rate and the form of young players being as changeable as the London weather, it has been a wild ride but not a hugely successful one to date.

Now things are at yet another crossroads — as they seem to be every other gameweek. The 51-year-old was forced into three changes from the side that lost to Wolves on Christmas Eve — losing both Cole Palmer and Raheem Sterling to suspension as well as Lesley Ugochukwu to injury — and was greeted with a win, just about.

It's Luton Town up next and