Ivanovic Excited By Matic Return to Chelsea

Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic is happy with the return to the club of Nemanja Matic.

The Benfica midfielder is expected to sign for Chelsea this week.

Ivanovic and Matic are Serbia teammates and the Blues
defender said last year: "There is a lot of positive
news about Nemanja Matic and the way he plays, he
is improving a lot.


"When he was at Chelsea, you saw he has the qualities to be a top player, but he needed practice, he
needed to play and he decided the best option for him
was to move to Portugal and to move to one of the
biggest clubs there.

"Now he is playing maybe the best football of his
career. In Portugal, he has improved his defensive
ways a lot, and his aggressiveness. And he has great
vision forward. Benfica put trust in him because Axel Witsel left for Zenit St Petersburg and Javi García left
for Manchester City as well – two key players for them – and Matic got the chance to play more and he
used the chance."