“I don’t know what Maresca has built” – Chelsea get worse the more time manager has with them | OneFootball

ESPN took a look back at Chelsea’s desperately poor loss to Brighton on Saturday, and their summary wasn’t kind to the Blues.

Usually Dan Thomas stays pretty neutral in his role as host, but here he couldn’t resist getting stuck in and demolishing another bad Chelsea performance. He questioned the backwards progress happening right now under Enzo Maresca.

“I don’t know what [Maresca] has built, to be honest. Because when they were going on this great run, when they were going up the table, they were fantastically entertaining to watch. Everything was vertical, everything was quick. You felt that every chance they had, they would create a good opportunity,” Thomas explained.

“Now… they are so pedestrian. Slow and sideways. If I’m a Chelsea fan, I’d be thinking ‘how have we gone from that entertaining style of football to what we see now?'”

You can see his comments in the clip embedded here:

Chelsea seem to be getting worse the more time Maresca spends with them

Shaka Hislop discusses Chelsea’s poor form after FA Cup defeat.

Pundit Jan Aage Fjortoft jumped in right away to agree with him:

“It’s a mystery, because [Maresca] has the broadest squad, so he can change people who are out of form.”

Shaka Hislop joined in too, saying the coach had “boxed himself in” with his decision to marginalise a whole B team of players, who he needs to all on now.

“Nobody’s talking about Maresca or the job he’s done [anymore], how do you rescue this? He does not seem able to rescue this, and that is concerning.

It’s never a good sign for a manager when a group of players appear to get worse the longer he spends with them. These pundits are quite right to be worried, and to look back puzzled at the impressive form in Autumn.