Enzo Maresca gives emphatic answer about Chelsea’s Premier League title chances

Enzo Maresca has erstwhile again played down Chelsea’s Premier League rubric chances contempt having the accidental to chopped the spread astatine the apical of the array to six points this weekend.

The Italian has made an eye-catching commencement to his Stamford Bridge reign and appears to beryllium getting the champion retired of Chelsea’s expensively assembled squad.

Maresca’s broadside look Aston Villa, whose are successful the midst of a seven-game winless run, this play and volition past look connected with involvement arsenic the apical 2 conscionable astatine Anfield.

Regardless of the effect successful that acme meeting, Maresca is adamant that his broadside are not yet equipped to spell the afloat region and he, for now, is contented with the accelerated advancement helium has maser minded.

‘No,’ helium said erstwhile asked if Chelsea were successful a rubric race. ‘I said galore times. And I truly similar the unit I truly similar to accidental yes we are determination but we are not there.

‘Arsenal is up of us, City is up of us. Liverpool is showing they are up of us. The important happening is we amended crippled aft crippled and past we see.’

He added: ‘You person to deliberation City mislaid 3 games successful a enactment but is inactive second, Arsenal is there. Liverpool is doing fantastic and the crushed wherefore is not astir the points oregon the array being up of america it’s astir the programme, astir being 5 years together. Liverpool it’s a spot different.

‘They didn’t marque truthful galore changes from the past this is the crushed why. It’s conscionable the clip together.’

Chelsea goalkeeper Filip Jorgensen, meanwhile, said helium is blessed astatine Stamford Bridge contempt being made to hold to marque his Premier League debut.

The 22-year-old joined from Villarreal successful the summertime but has been utilized lone successful cupful competitions by Maresca.

The Italian has repeatedly been questioned this play astir his goalkeeping situation, with existent No.1 Robert Sanchez blameworthy of a fig of costly mistakes and having failed to triumph implicit immoderate supporters since moving from Brighton successful 2023.

It has led to suggestions Jorgensen, who is simply a Denmark Under-21 international, could beryllium called connected to instrumentality implicit successful the league, wherever Maresca has typically favoured a antithetic XI to the 1 utilized successful the cups.

He turned successful his strongest show truthful acold during Chelsea’s 2-0 Conference League triumph distant to Heidenheim connected Thursday, making a drawstring of awesome saves arsenic the squad maintained their cleanable commencement successful the contention and moved to wrong 1 triumph of the last-16.

‘I’m very, precise blessed to beryllium here,’ helium said. ‘I’ve said it galore times to my friends, household and agent. I conscionable bask each infinitesimal and effort to get better.

‘(Maresca said) to enactment calm with the shot and effort to bash my thing, effort to speech a batch with my team-mates to assistance them enactment connected.’

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