(Video): Enzo Maresca sets himself up for failure with latest claim about Chelsea preseason

Enzo Maresca in his first Chelsea press conference.

Enzo Maresca has jus taken his first press conference as Chelsea boss, and he struck a cautiously optimistic note.

While emphasising he’d only been in charge for a month, he claimed that his team are “ahead of where I expected,” in the circumstances.

We’re delighted to hear it of course – but we fear it’s going to come back to haunt him by Sunday evening.

If we’re ahead of schedule and lose 4-0… what would we have been expecting to start with? He’d be better off emphasising there’s a long way to go, just in case things end up going horribly wrong.

You can see the coach speaking in the clip embedded here: