“He keeps giving me Headaches every time” – Enzo Maresca says on £52m Chelsea star after every Chelsea win
Overall, Enzo Maresca has had a good start to the season. After a hectic summer and a troubling trip of the United States, everything came to a head when the owners talked about a “civil war”.
Despite this, Maresca remained focused, and his club began the season with a strong record. Injuries have been few, results have been strong, and the Italian coach has just been named Manager of the Month after only two months in charge of the team.
Nkunku needs minutes – and Maresca must figure out how to give them to him
Nobody is pushing harder for a first team start than Christopher Nkunku at the moment. He’s been great in our B team, banging in goals in the cups, but Maresca has held strong and not given him a sniff in the first team.
Last night he scored for France in their win over Israel in the Nations League, and continued to put the pressure on for more minutes in the Premier League.
We don’t think Maresca is going to disrupt his preferred front 3 just yet, but getting Nkunku into the team somehow is now surely something of a priority, especially after a toothless display against Nottingham Forest last time out saw us drop 3 points.
This time a year ago we were struggling our way through games and counting the weeks until Nkunku came back from injury. It’s typical football that twelve months on, we’ve got a strange mirror of the same issue.