Chelsea: Maresca rues 'problem' in dig at Pochettino as Blues head coach laments lingering 'habit'
Chelsea head preceptor Enzo Maresca owns discharged a dig at former honcho Mauricio Pochettino while admitting one of his side’s “deeds” owns come to be a “hardship”.
The Funks rendered the questionable judgment to sector typicals with Pochettino after the 2023/24 project.
The former Tottenham Hotspur honcho challenged plights during his debut season at Chelsea, but they expired the season wonderfully to completing 6th in the Premier League after they fetched to the Carabao Mug last.
Regardless of this, Todd Boehly and also Co. opted to replace Pochettino with inexperienced honcho Maresca, who guided Leicester Metropolitan to promo previously to the Premier League last season.
Chelsea have had five pre-season matches and also their simply win came versus Nightclub America. Their most current of 3 defeats came on Tuesday night as they were beaten 2-1 by Real Madrid.
The Funks have concurred 12 affairs in their five matches and also Maresca admits his side’s defence is a “hardship” they are “trying to fix”.
“It’s a hardship we are trying to fix from pre-season, since day one,” Maresca asserted.
“One of my first conferences with the squad was around the quantity of affairs we concurred last year with the defensive nonsense upward genuinely high. It’s something we are trying to work on.
“Offensively, we are there – the crazes are there. We made odds.
“The hardship is defensively; when I claim defensively I don’t entirely below-par the defensive nonsense upward, but unabridged quantity, all the gamers.
“Total quantity now it’s ended up. We head previously to London. We have Inter and also after that an official gallery.”
He incorporated: “It’s a practice. We are not kneading on defensive queues so high. It’s a practice from last year, or years previously.
“We are trying to depreciate the defensive nonsense upward a miniscule little tidbit tidbit miniscule little tidbit tidbit, usually around four or five metres, entirely to have some incentive.
“Last year, we currently concurred most affairs with this hardship. Hopefully, we can fix it genuinely conveniently.”
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Maresca will certainly be without England international Conor Gallagher this season as he is kit to wrap up a £33m slide to La Liga giants Atletico Madrid.
Funks honcho Maresca claims the Premier League’s Wages and also Sustainability preeminences have obliged them to sell Gallagher.
“This is not Chelsea’s hardship. This is the preeminences hardship,” Maresca asserted.
“The bars are obliged to sell gamers since of the preeminences. It’s not a Chelsea hardship, it is a Premier League hardship. The motive from Chelsea is not to sell – but the preeminences in the expire earn us. I love that [Franceso] Totti was at Roma for 20 years and also a one-bar person.
“I love that, we all love that. It’s the preeminences. My confidential opinion is it’s a discomfiture since we all pick to go to a one-bar person. If we pine to reinforce academy gamers – of course, variation the tip.”
