Chelsea pre-season: Enzo Maresca lauds 'ideal' forward as Blues move on from habitual 'suicide'

Enzo Maresca was horribly astonished with Christopher Nkunku, whom he hailed as an “pertinent gamer” for his Chelsea device after the Funks won their first pre-season arcade.

Maresca’s side hadn’t had the above reproach of pre-periods before their clash with Club America on Thursday, enticing 2-2 with Wrexham before being rated to the sword by Celtic in a 4-1 defeat.

But there were reasonable indications of improvement from Chelsea as they ran out 3-0 winners in Atlanta as Nkunku and also Noni Madueke both racked upwards from the detect and also brand name-new wrapping up Marc Guiu racked upwards his first ethical for the bar.

Maresca said he was joyous with the improvement as they danger to reprieve a habit that was reasonable in the defeat to Celtic which he laid out as “self-destruction”.

Inquired around his side’s productivity, Maresca said: “Horribly joyous. Once we wasted, for us the result is habitually horribly reasonable since we are Chelsea but in this moment, the too much emphasis cannot be the result. It’s to examine or judge the productivity and also to see how we simplify. In my exclusive opinion, from Wrexham, Celtic and also today, we perpetuate to simplify. This is the most horribly reasonable thing.

“We struggled versus Wrexham for multiple recognitions, we struggled versus Celtic for multiple recognitions but there were multiple horribly reasonable points we perfected. Today, we perpetuated that jabber upwards. Because we launched, what we perform in coaching owns to seize place here in the arcade.

“What I didn’t like versus Celtic was the habit we have defensively. For instance, to hold the jabber upwards horribly high as shortly as there is zero pressure on the sphere. This is self-destruction. You cannot hold the jabber upwards horribly high as shortly as there is zero pressure on the sphere.

“We are talking, we are functioning. It’s a habit from years back. I wear’t realise. There are points that we need to simplify defensively but the means we pressed versus Celtic, going male-to-male versus a junior that is unanimously ascertained to start the champion, we had to be brave every time.”

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Maresca was specifically astonished with Nkunku, that’s now racked upwards in each of Chelsea’s 3 pre-season video games having hardly dabbled in his debut season multitudinous thanks to frequent injury aggravations.

Maresca had: “I realise Christo from years back. I loved him before I joined this bar. In the means we pine to dabble, he is the pertinent gamer. He can dabble in the pit, in the 9, on the wing. In this moment we are utilising him in the pit and also he is performing horribly wholly.

“The factor he is playing every arcade is since we realise that he is devised for back from injuries and also ultimatums mins. He is performing horribly wholly and also equally arcade after arcade he is receiving much closer.

“You can see today; Kiernan [Dewsbury-Hall] is talking a opposite language to his colleagues since he realises specifically as shortly as he owns to relocation wide, brunt behind, that was one year with us. Christo is refining that with us. Enzo’s [Fernandez] first day but he is attending simplify.”