Chelsea’s high 4 place seemed like a given not way back. The query , not in the event that they have been going to succeed in the Champions League locations.
2 factors from a attainable 12 in maybe our best run of the season has modified all that. Now the Italian coach is
“Since we began we’re there [in the top 4], however our focus is simply sport after sport, to see the place we’re, how we will enhance, after which the final 2 or 3 video games we see the place we’re after which from there we see.”
Properly we want we might consider they actually have been going sport by sport – however the impression of those previous couple of matches is that the main target has very a lot been misplaced. A high 4 end would nonetheless be higher than what most anticipated earlier than the season began, however the truth we have been doing so nicely till Christmas will now make a fifth place end really feel an enormous failure reasonably than a average success.
You’ll be able to see the coach talking within the clip embedded right here:
Maresca should apply what he preaches and get this group again to fundamentals
A sport in opposition to Morecambe within the FA Cup is up subsequent, and can give the group the prospect for a return to successful methods. But it surely most likely gained’t rely for a lot – all the eye shall be on the midweek sport in opposition to Bournemouth a number of days later.
They’re a really harmful group, completely set as much as rip a aspect like Chelsea aside if their perception is wobbling, which it actually appears to be proper now. There’s no have to panic, however Maresca should actually earn his wages this week on the coaching pitch.