Gonzalo Higuaín suits my Chelsea says his ‘football father’, Maurizio Sarri

• Sarri believes he can get the best out of Argentinian forward
• Higuaín and Hazard ‘speak the same language with the ball’

Maurizio Sarri would like to be regarded as Gonzalo Higuaín’s “football father” and believes he knows how to get the best from a player who he says requires public shots of confidence.

Higuaín scored twice in last Saturday’s 5-0 win over Huddersfield and, going into a far tougher assignment at Manchester City on Sunday, appears to have found form at an early stage in his Chelsea career. He is trying to put an underwhelming half-season at Milan behind him and Sarri sees parallels in the situation at Napoli in 2015.

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