One Sky Sports pundit has come out and explained why he disagrees with Enzo Maresca’s verdict on Chelsea for this season.
The Blues beat Tottenham with ease yesterday even though the scoreline suggests it was a close match. Maresca’s side absolutely bossed possession in the game and Spurs had nothing at all other than the three goals they managed to score from Chelsea mistakes.
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The Blues did go 2-0 down in the game, but never did I have a feeling that Chelsea would not win this game even at 2 down. Chelsea were looking like they were going to score every time they attacked and eventually they bagged four goals and beat Spurs 4-3 to get another massive victory to pull away from Arsenal in second place.
But Maresca continues to deny that Chelsea are in a title race right now, and says that they are still not close to teams like Liverpool and Manchester City. Jamie Carragher disagrees.
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“In the interview he did with Pat Davison before the game, I think he said he had spoken to [Claudio] Ranieri a couple of days ago,” said Carragher when reflecting on Maresca’s start to life at Stamford Bridge.
“Now you go back to Leicester winning the title and no matter when he was asked if they could win the title, he used to just say ‘Dilly ding, dilly dong’ just something random! He never wanted to answer the question and maybe that’ll be the advice he will be speaking to him about.
“They are definitely in it and you look at some of the attacking players, no team is perfect, I am talking about the goalkeeper who isn’t great. But there are areas in Liverpool’s team where you think they could improve there, the same with Arsenal and no doubt [Manchester] City right now.
“I just think certain positions feel more important than others when you think of teams who win the biggest prizes. That’s what would probably make me say right now that they are, and you still look at the goalkeeper, I mean even today, they are a couple of [his] clearances Tottenham could have gotten a goal from.
“You can go to Everton and you lose that maybe 1-0 because of a situation with the goalkeeper. You look at the game at Anfield, Chelsea played Liverpool off the park and Liverpool were delighted to get the full-time whistle.
“You do look at that game and [say] that the goalkeeper let them down and I just think I look at Liverpool’s goalkeeper and even Arsenal’s goalkeeper, I think they are a level above Chelsea’s.”
Quotes via Football London.
