I also think so. I think he will surprise us and do well. He will sit back in front of the defense while Vidal will take a more offensive role to fill the void created by Marchisio absence.
He must be really dumb then. What was he expecting? Playing instead of one of our three starters? He even has some luck we're using a 4-3-3 so he doesn't have to be a reserve, as we'd expect him to be in the beggining of the season due to all the 4-4-2 talk.