Performance scrappy & below par, but don't think Maresca would care about anything more than the scoreline. Burnley have conceded 13/22 in the 2nd half, including 6 post the 75'. Throwing Estevão, Caicedo, Garnacho on vs a Burnley chasing a goal is a position he'd like to be in.

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Need Enzo dropping deeper more often and playing those balls in behind for Delap/Neto.

Their backline is pushed so high there’s no space between the lines.

Reece smiling, I think that means there's no injury and Maresca took him off as a precaution

Badiashile why are you this way

Anderey Santos what a gem.

Does Marc Guiu deserve to start ahead of Delap?🤔💭

50 - Chelsea are just the second team in Premier League history to go 50 consecutive games without a player aged 30 or older in their starting XI, after Aston Villa between September 2012 and January 2014 (59). Youthful.

Maresca has reached the point where he basically knows what almost all our players are good at and bad at, and you can see it in how he uses them.

When Gusto moves into midfield, he’s not the type who just stands there. He’s very active, his job is mostly off-the-ball work, and he keeps swapping positions with his winger. Maresca has made his role simple and built it around what he’s naturally good at.

Enzo is being used perfectly.

He also sees JP more as a second striker who works behind a main striker against deep-defending teams, but he can be used as a number 9 when facing back fours.

Football is all about understanding your players’ profiles and using them properly, and these players fit the way Maresca naturally wants to play in the league and cup games. When the whole squad is fit and we add quality in the right areas, we’ll be competing for every trophy. Honestly, that was already the situation coming into this season.

Rate Gittens' performance 1️⃣-🔟

Tosin Adarabioyo for Chelsea vs. Burnley:

◉ Most touches (124)
◉ Most passes attempted (110)
◉ Most passes completed (102)
◉ Most duels won (8)
◉ Most tackles (5)
◉= Most clearances (4)
◉= Most aerial duels won (3)

💪💪💪

#BURCHE

Enzo Maresca's Premier League record in charge of Chelsea:

◉ 50 games
◉ 27 wins
◉ 11 draws
◉ 12 defeats

◎ 87 goals
◎ 54 conceded
◎ 17 clean sheets

Three points and a clean sheet in his 50th league game in charge. 👏

🔗 Squawka

🚨 Andrey Santos' game by numbers vs. Burnley:

63 touches 
7 duels won 
4 interceptions 
4x possession won 
4 clearances 
3 tackles 
2 fouls won 
1 chance created 
1 shot 

MOTM! 🏆🇧🇷

(Squawka) #CFC

Sánchez has a clean sheet for Chelsea every 3.04 games.

Over the last two decades we’ve had

Arrizabalaga, Cech, Courtois, Cudicini, Mendy mainly as the GKs

Game per clean sheet average for those are

Cudicini = 2.14
Mendy = 2.14
Cech = 2.17
Courtois = 2.66
Arrizabalaga = 2.81

Back to back clean sheets.

Nearly a clean sheet every three matches…

I’ll post how that compares to other past Chelsea players very soon

I still don’t know whether Maresca was trying to ‘protect’ these young talents or simply didn’t study them well enough. Every fan knew Andrey Santos is at his best as a 6, not an 8. Yet from the moment he arrived, Maresca pushed him into the 8 role as Enzo’s cover. Credit to Andrey for proving exactly why that shouldn’t have been the case.

Now we know he'll be a massive cover for Caicedo.

Chelsea were average in possession so they needed to be strong defensively. The best compliment you can pay Andrey Santos is that you could not tell that Caicedo wasn’t playing in that regard. Top defensive performance from Andrey. He provides a lot of value to Chelsea’s squad.

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Disappointing to see that Kendry Páez hasn’t started in any of Strasbourg’s last 6 games.

Today he was left out of the squad.

His last start was his best performance for Strasbourg so far as he’s still working through some rustiness.

Amazing to think that there are still fans out there who’d scream for Maresca to be sacked after any loss

The man has proven time and again that he’s the right man to take us forward

Chelsea fans are the hardest to please

The record of the last two managers to reach 50 Premier League games in charge for Chelsea.

Maresca:

W - 27
D - 11
L - 12

All comps: 81 games. Win ratio 63%

Tuchel:

W - 28
D - 12
L - 10

All comps: 100 games. Win ratio 63%