It’s hard not to back Maresca to be honest. Let’s put things in perspective…

- Liam Delap, our best striker, has hardly had a kick this season

- Cole Palmer, our best player, just made only his SECOND (!) appearance at Stamford Bridge this season

- Levi Colwill, our best CB, tore his ACL a few weeks before the season started

- Chelsea have received 6 (!) red cards this season. 7, if you’re counting Maresca’s red card. One of these red cards led to our most important player, Caicedo, missing three matches through suspension.

- This goes without mentioning the two week summer break we had after winning the CWC (nearly every other Club in the PL had a full preseason + summer off)

Please, tell me. Wouldn’t every team struggle if circumstances like this arose? Considering the context, we’re in a good position. I mean, come on. For all we know, we might win another trophy this season.

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Chelsea are the third highest scorers in the PL.
Chelsea have the most clean sheets in the PL.
Chelsea have the second best defence in the PL.

All without Palmer, Levi or a proper 9 all season.

Make judgments over a wide sample of games, not just one game

Don’t flip flop your opinions based on a poor run of form

Tuchel has used Odoi & Loftus-Cheek as wing backs. Conte used Victor Moses as wing back. Mourinho used Azpi as a left back. Ancelotti used Valverde as right back. Flick uses Garcia as a midfielder. Pep uses O’reilly & Nunes as full backs, he’s even used Stones in midfield before.

But it’s only a problem when Maresca plays James in midfield or Chalobah as RB😂

I hope some of you see how childish and faultfinding you can be with our manager sometimes

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Against us, they deploy their best of the dark arts.

It's difficult having an open game like the one both United and Bournemouth are having against each other.

But they are right. Those that have tried like Everton have ended up crying in the toilet.

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