Chelsea supervisor Enzo Maresca says teenage sensation Estevao Willian struggled to “handle his feelings” in the course of the 3-1 defeat at .
The 18-year-old was substituted at half-time for goalscorer Pedro Neto after receiving a yellow card for what gave the impression to be a deliberate foul on Gabriel Gudmundsson in the direction of the tip of the primary half.
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Requested if the change was to guard him from a possible purple card, Maresca stated: “I feel the sensation with Estevao was somewhat bit: ‘Welcome to the Premier League, welcome to Leeds’.
“The affect for him was in all probability large. The rationale we modified him was as a result of he already had a yellow card.
“Typically when you’re 18, you wrestle to handle your feelings, so it was higher to alter him and keep away from any purple card.”
The outcome was a setback after the positivity of the earlier seven days, given the sensational win at dwelling to Barcelona and in opposition to league leaders Arsenal, having performed with 10 males for greater than half the match.
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Maresca was with out star midfielder Moises Caicedo, who he admitted “we missed”, whereas Reece James was solely match sufficient for the bench and defender Wesley Fofana was rested.
“Moi [Caicedo], Reece [James], Wes [Fofana] – we can not use them each recreation,” Maresca added. “It is unimaginable, as a result of in any other case they’ll get injured once more and be out for months and months.
“I hope it was only a unhealthy evening, as a result of it is a recreation the place you wrestle to seek out something optimistic. I feel, once more, they had been higher than us on the ball, off the ball, and with second balls – in all elements.”