Enzo Maresca tied himself in knots tonight speaking about his choices following Chelsea’s stunning defeat to Legia Warsaw at dwelling.
Requested in regards to the efficiency, one among his first excuses was that he had needed to “rotate” his crew. It was instantly put to him that, if something, the crew he put out was surprisingly robust. There was , however solely actually for gamers who’ve performed loads of A and B crew video games this season, plus first crew left again Marc Cucurella.
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The truth that Cole Palmer and Nicolas Jackson additionally began shocked everybody, so can he actually blame a rotated crew? When this was put to him, he mentioned “no,” however couldn’t actually clarify why it was mistaken.
“No, the thought was only for them, particularly for Nico, Nico has been greater than two months out, so the thought to play with him is to proceed to construct a bit of bit the bodily situation for him, so the thought was for him 45 minutes, we deliberate already that, and for Cole, he had a small downside earlier than the worldwide break, so once more, for him it was to make use of him 45 minutes, one hour, after which simply to offer them a bit of bit tempo and enhance that and be higher Sunday on the sport.”
“Yeah, initially the principle goal for them was to assist them to construct bodily situation, so we determined to make use of each of them, and for positive if they can rating, it may very well be a superb increase for them.”
Maresca’s limits his choices for Fulham conflict
Tyrique George runs. (Picture by Mike Hewitt/Getty Photographs)
So his grand plan to get gamers match and firing for the remainder of the season is to play them within the video games they don’t have to play in? We’re undecided about that logic. They had been each poor, Palmer picked up a kick and Jackson was nameless.
Each prolonged their respective goalless streaks. Discuss a backfire.
