Recently, Chelsea have played a match against Manchester City at the Ohio Stadium and Enzo Maresca got humiliated by Pep Guardiola. Manchester City defeated Chelsea where City scored 4 goals and Chelsea scored 2 goals.
After the game, the reporters asked Pep Guardiola about the gameplan of Enzo Maresca’s Chelsea; he seemed to be impressed. According to the Express, Pep Guardiola said that he liked the way Enzo Maresca’s Chelsea are playing. We have seen that Chelea tried to play from the back.
This strategy also caused some difficulties for the Chelsea backline, but they never feared playing from the back. The new Chelsea goalkeeper, Filip Jorgensen, is an expert at playing from the back.
Chelsea vs. Manchester City: Details of the Match
From the start, Enzo Maresca’s Chelsea wanted to play from the back, and Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City are well aware of this strategy. Previously, Roberto De Zerbi used this strategy against Pep and outsmarted him in the Premier League.
When Chelsea tried to play a pass through the midfield, Moises Caicedo provided a miss pass, and the ball ended up in Erling Haland’s feet. The Norwegian striker scored the first goal for Manchester City.
New Chelsea signing Tosin Adarabioyo also did the same thing, and Erling Haland scored another goal. On top of that, he scored a hat trick by converting a penalty kick.
Later, Manchester City youngster Oscar Bobb scored a beautiful goal on his own which led Chelsea to a four-goal deficit. After that, Enzo Maresca brought in players like Noni Madueke and Raheem Sterling. Both of them scored goals for Chelsea.
Sterling scored a beautiful volley and Madueke scored a goal from 1 v 1 situation.
Enzo Maresca’s strategy
Last season, Chelsea finished sixth in English Premier league. Mauricio Pochettino found a standard team out of the scrap.
At the ending of 2023-2024 season, the Blues were performing better than their previous games. They should maintain this performance in order to achieve more success in the upcoming season.
The fans are excited to see Enzo’s Chelsea team because he is the one who brings on something out of the box. He has worked under some legendary managers such as Carlo Ancelotti, Pep Guardiola, Rafael Benitez, and Lippi.
He takes idea from different managers and combine them all together. On top of that, he mixes some of his own ideas. These things make Enzo Maresca a great coach.
New dawn at Chelsea
The Blues are heavily investing on young talents. After some loan spells, when these young talented players will be more matured and experienced, the club will give them a chance to play for the starting eleven. This is certainly an effective strategy for any club. The same thing has happened with a lot of Chelsea academy players such as Recce James, Fikayo Tomori, Ruben Loftus Cheek, Tammy Abraham, Mason Mount.
After the appointment of Enzo Maresca as the new Chelsea head coach, the fans are seeing a massive change in the squad. Todd Boehly has signed new players for almost every position. This action sums up everything about Chelsea’s current situation.
No club wants to lose their talented players. Especially when the player is nurtured at the academy, it is really difficult to lose them on a free transfer because it will affect the future of the club.
Chelsea have already signed a lot of young talents, but now they need to integrate them properly into the squad. The coach has to be more decisive in his decisions because there are a lot of players who want to play for Chelsea. But he has to decide whom to include in the starting eleven and whom to bench.
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