Enzo Maresca has admitted Chelsea are struggling at each ends of the pitch as they discover themselves on a run of simply three wins from 12 video games.
The Blues have been outdoors contenders for the Premier League title in December however have did not make the most of a pleasant run of fixtures, with Saturday’s defeat to Aston Villa leaving them seventh within the newest league standings.
Requested to clarify what has gone flawed for his aspect, Maresca insisted Chelsea have merely misplaced their contact each in assault and defence.
“Most likely there may be all the time a couple of cause,” he started. “I feel within the final seven, eight, ten video games, the large distinction for me has been particularly contained in the field – in each bins.
“[Apart from] Brighton away within the Premier League, in all the remaining we all the time created possibilities, we nearly all the time scored, so the distinction most likely has been contained in the field. We have to be defensively extra robust and extra scientific after we get the prospect.”
Quantifying Chelsea’s struggles is a tally of 13 factors dropped from profitable positions since Boxing Day, greater than every other workforce within the division.
“I do not know [what that tells me],” Maresca mentioned when offered with the statistic. “I haven’t got a solution for that. I knew this, that we dropped 13 factors from profitable positions.
“Typically it is soccer. Typically there’s a cause why. We are attempting to know just a little bit. The nice factor is a minimum of you have been in entrance in these sorts of video games however now it’s the different half, when you’re in entrance and attempting to guard that.
“In each one of these video games, we analyse now we have possibilities to go from 1-0 to 2-0, from 0-1 to 0-2, and we miss greater than as soon as. Even the opposite day, in opposition to Villa, we had 4 or 5 possibilities for 0-2, 0-2, 0-2. Should you miss, the sport is all the time open and something can occur, however for certain, it’s one thing we have to perceive.”
