Maresca blasts careless Chelsea after Brighton defeat

Enzo Maresca warned Chelsea to halt “giving distant presents” aft their latest reddish paper played a cardinal relation successful a daze 3-1 decision by Brighton astatine Stamford Bridge connected Saturday.

Maresca’s broadside were starring done Enzo Fernandez’s 24th-minute header erstwhile Blues defender Trevoh Chalobah was dismissed for a mediocre tackle connected Diego Gomez.

Chalobah’s 53rd-minute reddish paper for denying a goalscoring accidental enactment Chelsea successful an awkward presumption and they collapsed successful the last stages arsenic Brighton struck 3 times.

Danny Welbeck equalised successful the 77th infinitesimal and Maxim De Cuyper’s header enactment Brighton successful beforehand successful stoppage time.

The substitute was near unmarked to motion the shot location aft Mats Wieffer had turned Yasin Ayari’s transverse backmost into the area.

Welbeck added the 3rd extremity successful the last seconds to condemn Chelsea to a 2nd successive Premier League loss.

Last play Chelsea goalkeeper Robert Sanchez was sent disconnected aft 4 minutes of a 2-1 decision astatine Manchester United.

For the 2nd clip successful 7 days, Maresca was near searching successful vain for answers to Chelsea’s wont of gifting opponents the vantage with their deficiency of subject and mediocre defending.

“The connection (in the dressing room) was clear,” said Maresca. “Against immoderate squad successful the Premier League you cannot proceed to springiness distant presents.

“We are giving distant presents. The reddish paper is simply a large mistake due to the fact that the crippled wholly changed.”

Chelsea had started good and took the pb erstwhile Moises Caicedo slipped the shot into Reece James, whose transverse was nodded successful astatine the acold station by Fernandez.

Chalobah’s reddish paper changed the momentum aft a mediocre walk from Andrey Santos prompted the centre-back to marque a crude situation connected Gomez successful a bid to halt him advancing connected goal.

Chelsea slipped to eighth spot and were booed disconnected astatine the last whistle, with Premier League leaders Liverpool adjacent up for the spluttering Blues connected October 4.

“It’s a pugnacious 1 due to the fact that we were successful power of the game,” Maresca said.

“We scored one, we could person scored more. We had truthful galore shots archetypal half, 70 per cent of possession – everything was fine.

“Then abruptly due to the fact that of our mistake, with the reddish paper the program wholly changed. We played 2 games – archetypal half, past unluckily aft the reddish card.

“For definite you cannot proceed to marque mistakes. They are large mistakes, game-changing, reddish paper against United and today.”

AFP

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