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Chelsea head coach Mauricio Pochettino has explained his decision to bench Enzo Fernandez in Chelsea’s 2-0 victory over Sheffield United.

The Argentine midfielder, had started all but one of Chelsea’s previous Premier League matches this season, with a muscular injury keeping him out of the 2-0 defeat to Brentford at the backend of October.

Pochettino opted to play Moises Caicedo and Conor Gallagher behind an attacking four of Raheem Sterling, Cole Palmer, Mykhailo Mudryk and Nicolas Jackson.

Asked why he left Fernandez out, and whether Caicedo’s much-improved display in the Argentine’s absence was related, Pochettino replied: “You can only play 11.

“It’s a big competition and sometimes you need one characteristic, or one profile or another profile, and you need to choose the player.

“And of course today we saw that the combination between Caicedo and Gallagher, plus Cole Palmer like a number 10, was a possibility to be the best combination for today.

“But it doesn’t mean that maybe Tuesday [against Newcastle in the Carabao Cup] Enzo can play with another, and another is on the bench.”