Enzo Maresca has stated Chelsea are over-reliant on Cole Palmer and rejected criticism of the midfielder’s physique language in latest video games.
Chelsea slipped to seventh within the Premier League with a 2-1 defeat at Aston Villa on Saturday, a recreation during which Palmer missed a transparent probability with the scores degree.
He has not scored in his final six matches courting again to Jan. 14 and likewise wasted an excellent alternative to place Chelsea 2-0 up at Manchester City final month, a match they went on to lose 3-1.
Talking on Tuesday forward of the go to of rock-bottom Southampton, Maresca stated: “I’m all the time involved about common efficiency however I’m not involved about Cole as a result of Cole is a human being and in the course of the season he can have some moments the place he struggles a bit of bit extra.
“The issue with Cole might be that we depend on Cole for all the things and I stated since we begin we have to depend on the crew. For positive, we’d like large gamers, high gamers like Cole however we’re not fearful about Cole in any respect.”
Palmer appeared to vent his frustration on a number of events at Villa Park, following on from comparable incidents in successive defeats to Brighton however Maresca denied there was any underlying unhappiness.
“On the finish, additionally there are crew mates that may be pissed off with the probabilities we miss towards Villa and towards Metropolis. I believe each possibilities had been Cole, no? Very clear,” he stated.
“The opposite day we had been 1-1, to attain [to go] 1-2 [up], ten minutes to go. Towards Metropolis, it was 0-1 might be 0-2 after 10 minutes and I did not see his crew mates pissed off so Cole is simply upset simply because we’re not successful video games, not more than that.”
Requested how the 22-year-old — who had loved a prolific marketing campaign till his latest droop — might get again to the shape which noticed him amass 14 objectives and 6 assists from 26 league video games, Maresca replied: “Simply proceed working in the way in which he’s working. The opposite day I believe, sure, he had a terrific probability however total the efficiency from Cole … as I stated each recreation we anticipate from him a aim or help so it’s tough.
“He’s a human being. On this second in all probability his efficiency additionally displays a bit of bit the crew efficiency — that we wrestle to attain objectives — and we should be a bit of extra scientific in possibilities.”
Maresca additionally confirmed Filip Jørgensen will proceed in aim after his last-minute error gifted Villa their win.
Jorgensen had changed Robert Sánchez following a string of errors however Maresca stated: “”If we have to change gamers each time there’s a mistake, we have to change gamers recreation by recreation, many gamers. However no, nothing has modified.”
In the meantime,Trevoh Chalobah is sidelined for round 10 days with a again downside.
