Enzo Maresca wants Chelsea to finish games when they have the chance
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Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca blamed a lack of clinical finishing after Jean-Philippe Mateta’s late equaliser salvaged a 1-1 draw for Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park. Cole Palmer opened the scoring in the 14th minute of a first half dominated by Maresca’s visiting Blues, who squandered a number of chances to pad their lead before the Frenchman levelled eight minutes from time.
Fourth-placed Chelsea, once touted as title contenders, are now winless in their last four Premier League meetings and have just one point more than Newcastle, who edged closer to the Champions League places with victory over Tottenham. Maresca said: “Two weeks ago, three weeks ago, we were talking about the title race. We knew that Newcastle, Aston Villa will be there, City will be, for sure there.
“So it’s for me, it’s not about the table. It’s just about seeing how we can improve things. “Today, the performance for me was very good on the ball, off the ball. “But this moment of the season, I knew that is going to happen in any season for any team, that you have some moment that you are not able to win games.
“The reason why? I think every game is different. Sometimes it’s for one reason, sometimes it’s for different reasons. “But today, if I have to decide the reason why we didn’t win the game, I think it’s just try to be clinical when you have the chance to kill the game.
“If you continue to be open, open, open at the end, you’re going to concede.”. Jadon Sancho was the spark behind Chelsea’s opener, outsmarting Chris Richards before darting down the left, cutting in and slipping to Palmer, who scored his 13th of the Premier League campaign.
