Chelsea’s best result in recent months was beating Spurs 1-0.
After that game, we wrote an article which made one thing very clear – the time for rotation was over in the back line. That was the day where Wesley Fofana was left out of the squad and we later found out he was done for the season.
From that point onwards, we said that it should be very simple – the central defensive pair that kept a clean sheet in that game (Levi Colwill and Trevoh Chalobah) should be the league starting pair every week. They kept Spurs’ attackers quiet, and looked like our best pairing in the squad.
After a season of constant disruption at the back, with injuries and Enzo Maresca’s love of tinkering around meaning we’ve never had a consistent pair, it was time to help out our defence by creating a settled partnership.
Instead, the chaos has continued. In our next game it was Tosin Adarabioyo and Chalobah lining up at centre back, with Reece James at left back and Malo Gusto at right back.
Then, against Ipswich last weekend, we saw Levi Colwill and Tosin in the middle, with Chalobah at right back and Marc Cucurella at left back.
Rather than settle on one setup, Maresca scrambled things more than ever.
Maresca may have left it too late to create settled defence
In midweek against Legia Warsaw it was Tosin and Benoit Badiashile starting. We desperately hope that means we will finally return to the Chalobah – Colwill combination at the back again. It may be too late to save our season after dropped points in our last two games, but it should at least stop a total collapse in this final run to the end of the Premier League season.
The man has been anything other than disaster in the past few games infact the heat should also be on the owners too for giving us a championship level craps, who has refused to change.
A very thoroughly silly manager. Whatever goes on in his mind baffles me really.
My goodness, SuperFrank. I’m so sick of you talking out of both sides of your mouth I could absolutely scream! If you can’t just report the Chelsea “news” instead of constantly injecting your opinion then at least be honest and consistent. You just got done ripping into Maresca in another piece for playing such a strong lineup against Warsaw instead of rotating the squad (which, if you look at the substitution pattern, he actually did a pretty good job of) and now you’re tearing him a new one for actually rotating the back line. Which is it?! It’s been less than 48 hours since you wrote the following and you’re only contradicting yourself: https://chelsea.news/2025/04/chelsea-legia-team-news-inexplicable/
Your penchant for constantly finding something to carp about is matched only by the pettiness and inconsistency with which you level your criticisms. And you never, not once, go back and admit when you get it all wrong, lol! It’s in no small part why I’ve quit clicking as much as I used to on Chelsea News when it pops up in my feed—because chances are it’s not “news.” It’s SuperFrank subjecting us to another of his “I know better than the manager” articles in which he argues he had it all figured all along (usually because he’s written pieces taking up both sides of the argument).
Maresca is doing try and error method with the squad, how will you go whole season without a starting 11 then you expect the coherent to be among the players.
You have young and promising players on the bench and on the academy yet you use a right back in the center of the field and you expect a good result. He is not ready for the team yet
Maresca is so confused he is at his wit’s end. Am not sure if Chelsea land 5th place to qualify for champions league next season. Very chaotic Italian gambler
It’s very clear that Maresca is a gambler not a coach for Chelsea. Maresca thinking is too low to be a Chelsea coach.
It’s time to settle on a FIRST 11, wayyy too much tinkering and NOT getting any results. Is it time for a change at the top?????
To be frank the head coach is not stable in his coaching pattern. He is immature to take Chelsea FC to a greater height
The coach is clueless
It’s the time to show our worth and not go beyond top five for the worst,team work and shooting for goals.
Stamford Bridge has become a laboratory for Mr Maresca to experiment his delutions which he called Football Philosophy.. The so called owners of the club will reach a point the fortune of their investments would begin to dwindled. It may then be too little too late to save the value of the club. Then we’ll begin again
At this point the coach is suppose to have a strong line up. 11 players from a large squad should not be a hard thing to do since you have been with the team going to the end of the season. What do we do next season?