Enzo Maresca hints he cannot pick two in-form Chelsea players in the same team

Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca has hinted his 2 in-form strikers Christopher Nkunku and Nicolas Jackson are improbable to fig successful the aforesaid starting XI immoderate clip soon.

The Italian has made an awesome commencement to his Stamford Bridge tenure and followed up Saturday’s broad triumph astatine West Ham by masterminding a regular 5-0 thrashing of Barrow successful the EFL Cup.

Nkunku, whose archetypal play successful England was ruined by a bid of injuries, scored an awesome hat-trick which volition summation the clamour for him to diagnostic much prominently successful the Premier League.

The France planetary has mostly been utilized arsenic a substitute truthful acold this word and though helium proved to beryllium the matchwinner disconnected the seat successful a caller triumph astatine Bournemouth, helium has truthful acold been forced to mostly play 2nd fiddle to Jackson.

A smartly taken brace against the Hammers underlined the erstwhile Villarreal forward’s good commencement to the caller run but Maresca appears unwilling to brace the duo unneurotic and hazard compromising his side’s antiaircraft solidity.

‘It’s hard to justice due to the fact that past twelvemonth I was not here,’ said Maresca erstwhile asked if the potency of his 2 main forwards was the main origin successful the aboriginal betterment Chelsea person shown nether his management.

‘The lone happening I tin justice is that they’re some doing fantastic. Not lone due to the fact that they score, but due to the fact that they enactment disconnected the ball. The mode they sacrifice for the team.

‘This is precise important for them. This is simply a bully occupation erstwhile you person 2 strikers that proceed to score. ‘

Unfortunately, Marc Guiu is not scoring astatine the infinitesimal but hopefully soon helium can. It’s bully you tin determine which 1 and due to the fact that they are successful a bully infinitesimal we tin usage them.’

Pressed connected whether Jackson and Nkunku were compatible successful the aforesaid XI, helium added: ‘It could be. But the occupation is the antiaircraft balance.

‘We tin deliberation to spot with Nicolas, Christo, Joao, Cole Palmer, Noni, fantastic! But past who is defending? Me and you?

‘I would similar to enactment each of them successful due to the fact that I truly similar shot and I truly similar to support the shot but the occupation is erstwhile you suffer the shot and past you person to defend.

‘Not each of them tin support astatine the aforesaid level.’

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