Chelsea head coach Enzo Maresca has defended his record at Stamford Bridge: “We need to be positive because it is what the players need. There is no reason to be negative. For sure we like to win games, but also the reality is there is not any pressure.”
Monday 29 September 2025 14:20, UK
Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca calls for calm despite his side sitting 8th in the table with two league wins so far this season.
Enzo Maresca insists there is “no reason to be negative” at Chelsea as he continues to be backed by the board at Stamford Bridge.
Blues supporters showed their dissatisfaction with Maresca and his team during the closing stages of Saturday’s 3-1 home defeat to Brighton.
It was a third loss in four for Chelsea in all competitions and the second in which they had collapsed after going down to 10 men, following Trevoh Chalobah’s 53rd-minute red card that precipitated a capitulation from a one-goal lead and command of the match.
However, during his press conference ahead of Chelsea’s reunion with Jose Mourinho when Benfica visit Stamford Bridge in the Champions League, Maresca pointed out that Chelsea have only lost five games in the last six months, with four of them when they were reduced to 10 men, suggesting there was plenty to be positive about for the Blues.
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“We need to be positive because first of all it is what the players need,” Maresca said. “Secondly, because I think there is no reason to be negative.
“This morning the club showed me a stat that in the last six months we lost five games, four of them with a red card [for a Chelsea player].
“For sure we like to win games, but also the reality is there is not any pressure. The only pressure is that being at Chelsea as a player or a manager you need to win games, there is no doubt, but the reality is that for different reasons, injury or red cards, we lost five games in six months.
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