Enzo Maresca reacts to woeful Chelsea stat in Brighton defeat and provides Noni Madueke injury update

Enzo Maresca concede that his Chelsea side need to ‘find different solutions’ quickly after they faile to register a single shot on target in a humbling 3-0 defeat to Brighton.

Less than a week on from their FA Cup elimination สมัครสมาชิก UFABET วันนี้ รับเครดิตฟรีทุกวัน at the hands of the Seagulls, the visitors were beaten all ends up by Fabian Hurzeler’s men in the Premier League.

Kaoru Mitoma opene the scoring with a solo wondergoal in the 27th minute and the visitors offered very little in the way of a response after Yankuba Minteh struck either side of the break to increase the deficit on the south coast.

The result – a third loss in four games for Chelsea in all competitions – means champions Manchester City can leapfrog Enzo Maresca’s men into the top four with victory over Newcastle at the Etihad this weekend.

Cole Palmer had another frustrating night for the Blues and the forward’s latest setback means he is without a goal in his last five appearances for the west London giants.

The sight of Noni Madueke hobbling off the pitch in the first half only adde to Chelsea’s misery and Maresca confirme that the winger was likely to be out ‘for a while’ at his post-match press conference.

Asked for an update on Malo Gusto and Madueke, the Chelsea boss replie: ‘Malo is okay, he’s okay. Noni, unfortunately it’s a hamstring problem so he will be out for a while.’

Chelsea appeare to be missing Nicolas Jackson’s presence up front at the Amex Stadium, with Maresca’s men failing to muster up even one shot on target for their travelling support.

‘Hopefully we can get a shot on goal. But especially, for me, we arrive quite well at the edge of their box. Quite clear, quite clean,’ Maresca responde when quizze on the startling stat

‘The problem is then in the last third you need the ball inside the box, you need the player there, and the first one, the main one, is the No.9 inside their box.

‘In this moment, Nico [Jackson] is not there, Marc [Guiu] is not there. We need to find different solutions.

‘I think in the first half we had two or three moments where we could score that we misse.

‘But the bad feeling in this moment is that easily we can concede chances and we struggle to create chances so we need to find the balance in that.’