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Class act at the back has skills for top level

PLAYER PROFILE MARC GUEHI SWANSEA CITY DEFENDER

By Chris Dunlavy

TAKING CHARGE: Swansea’s Marc Guehi in control against Derby’s Martyn Waghorn
PICTURE: PA Images

POISE: At parent club Chelsea

SWANSEA City can consider themselves fortunate that Chelsea have an embarrassment of riches in central defence. After all, not many Premier League sides could afford to ignore a centre-back of Marc Guehi’s calibre. Guehi, a 20-year-old Englishman of Ivorian descent and a product of the Stamford Bridge youth system, initially joined the Swans on loan in January. By that stage, h...

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