One of many greatest surprises Chelsea head coach Maresca offered relating to staff choice was not recalling Marc Cucurella to the primary XI after the full-back was suspended towards Liverpool after which on the bench towards Newcastle final weekend.

For the third successive Premier League sport, Maresca opted to play a right-back out of place at left-back, and it’s having a unfavorable influence on Chelsea’s potential to have a balanced assault.

Every time he bought possession, auxiliary left-back Reece James’ first intuition was to chop inside and play the ball along with his proper foot in direction of the center of the pitch. It led to at least one harmful counter-attack as he misplaced the ball, and meant left winger Pedro Neto didn’t see as a lot of the ball as he may have.

Chelsea did pose a menace within the opening 45 minutes by Noni Madueke and Gusto on the appropriate, however with their play being so predictable, the house facet had been all the time capable of get numbers over to dam any crosses or passes.

When Cucurella is within the facet, the opponents have extra of a guessing sport over what Maresca’s facet will do. Maresca realised the error of his methods and introduced Cucurella on for Gusto at half-time, with James moved to his most popular right-hand facet.