Chelsea Crumbled After Atalanta’s Equalizer – Enzo Maresca

Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca has said that the club lost control of their Champions League match against Atalanta in Bergamo before falling to a 2-1 defeat. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, after conceeding the equalizer early in the second half, his players crumbled under pressure and failed to recover.

Maresca added that the two goals Atalanta scored during the UCL clash were absolutely avoidable.

His words, “After the goal we conceded we lost control. Second half, we had two good chances to score the second goal. When we conceded the 1-1, we lost some concentration. We can avoid both of the goals we conceded. They’re easy goals.

Both changes were because Trev and Enzo, they are playing every minute of every game. They are both not 100 percent. Trev was on a yellow card. This is the reason why we changed them.

We are aware [how crowded their schedule will be with a playoff]. Absolutely. Now the game is finished. The focus is on Saturday’s game [against Everton]. We need to win games.

Probably we need two wins. Sixteen points might get you top eight, I’m not sure. The next one, for sure, if we want to finish top eight, we need to win both.

For sure we conceded two goals that for me we can avoid. When you concede, the first one is the moment when you can’t lose the control of the game but I have a feeling that we lost the control of the game after the goal we conceded.”

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.