Chelsea manager, Enzo Maresca has come out to say that he was responsible for a tactical oversight vs Tottenham Hotspur. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, removing Cole Palmer and Enzo Fernandez to shore up the defence and midfield late in the game was a mistake, especially because 12 minutes of stoppage time was signalled largely due to extensive VAR reviews.
Maresca added that Chelsea won the game in the end despite his lapse, so he is very happy.
His words, “We created chances enough in the first half, and then, to be honest, it has been my mistake because I did the change before I saw the extra time.
When I saw 12 minutes, I saw that probably was too early to make that kind of change. But fortunately, we won the game, and we are happy.
If you want to become a team, I think you need also to learn and to play in the way we played in the last 10 minutes: win a game in a dirty way.”
WOW.
Chelsea Football Club is an English professional football club based in Fulham, West London. Founded in 1905, they play their home games at Stamford Bridge.
The club competes in the Premier League, the top division of English football. They won their first major honour, the League championship, in 1955. The club won the FA Cup for the first time in 1970, their first European honour, the Cup Winners’ Cup, in 1971, and became the third English club to win the Club World Cup in 2022.
On 7 May 2022, Chelsea confirmed that terms have been agreed for a new ownership group, led by Todd Boehly, Clearlake Capital, Mark Walter and Hansjörg Wyss, to acquire the club. The group was later known as BlueCo.
The UK government approved the £4.25bn takeover, ending Abramovich’s 19-year ownership of the club. Bruce Buck, who served as chairman since 2003, was replaced by Boehly, while long-serving club director and de facto sporting director Marina Granovskaia left, as did Petr Čech from the role of technical and performance advisor.
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