Former Chelsea winger Pat Nevin has left Enzo Maresca out of any criticism and aims it at the Chelsea decision makers.
Nevin was speaking after Chelsea lost 2-1 against newly promoted side Sunderland in the Premier League yesterday afternoon.
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A late goal won Sunderland the game, but it came from some awful defending from Chelsea that was all out embarrassing in all honesty.
Another pundit, Paul Merson, has already been aiming his criticism at two Chelsea players who were awful in the game yesterday, but Nevin is looking more at the owners and the decisions that have been made rather than Maresca and any of the players.
Nevin on Chelsea
Pat Nevin has exclusively told Sports Mole that it is too premature to talk about dismissing Maresca.
“There’s a number of things he should get cut slack for,” Nevin said. “Number one, you win the Club World Cup, you never get any pre-season. That’s going to affect you.
“Injuries on top of that. Not an excuse, a reason. It’s a young team. They’re going to make mistakes. Particularly the centre-backs. It was sixth and seventh-choice centre-backs they were playing by the end against Liverpool, but they still managed to get through. And this is going to affect them all season.
“He wanted a centre-back who had a bit more experience and never got it. We got another six wingers. Maresca, to be fair, I wasn’t really looking at him. I was looking at more of a holistic view of what the whole club is.
“Is it absolutely perfectly balanced yet? Not quite yet, but is it balanced enough with a fair wind, and not too many injuries, to get top four? Yeah.
“Winning the league? That’s a long shot, especially as the likes of Arsenal look a long way ahead of them in terms of squad size, depth and good balance, and experience.”
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