We need to stop ignoring the fact that our creativity in our last 3 prem games has been dead. If we wanna continue this style then it has to be Reece in those areas that gusto gets in to.
Yep I like Lavia off the ball but my god he doesn't provide any progressive pass. I know Enzo getting cook cuz of his off the ball and on the ball not being consistent but we attack much better with him
@@sky3880how many passes from Enzo actually create goals? I think you’re conflating correlation with causation, we got a new midfield let it settle and we’ll see what works.
Sanchez(G){Until further notice} Cucurella(LB) Colwill(CB) James(CB){For his fitness and he is a better footballer than Fofana overall} Gusto(RB){Stay wide when moving forward} Caicedo(CM) Lavia(CM) Nkunku(AM) or Felix ,but Nkunku will work hard off the ball Neto(LW) Palmer(RW){Invert} Jackson(S) I think this could be a solution based on what you guys said and could be exciting to watch.
I think this Chelsea team right now is built perfectly to play the 3-4-3 formation and also you can invert the wingbacks in Cucurella and Gusto in build up play So I agree with having (Reece, Fofana, Colwill as CB) Cucurella and Gusto as wingbacks Then Lavia and Caicedo as the CMs Then invert the wide forwards in Nkunku and Palmer with Jackson up front
I will take a draw all day long because we are the ideal team to face for Arsenal to get back to winning ways. They defend well and are good at set pieces and they are a counter attacking team.
@@shobith241183 Sadly I agree with you. They have the perfect height in their squad to get goals from setpieces, which we suck at cause our squad is one of the shortest in the prem. Plus we don't really defend transitions well and we also struggle against teams that set up really well defensively (low block, mid block)
In my opinion ,you cant get the best version of madueke or gusto if they start together ,because both of them want to hug the touchline . Last ssn gusto in his first PL season got 9 assists ,when he hugged the touchline and palmer was playing as a RW , however palmer unlike madueke kepts cutting in and coming central ,playing as a RM . Starting gusto as an outright winger would be stupidity . The only other option is to play a 3ATB with wingbacks - gusto and reece james/cucurella . Caicedo and lavia as 2 DMs . Palmer just in front and nkunku and jackson as 2 strikers . (Nkunku became bundesliga top-scorer playing as a striker in a 2-man attack )
I'm on Miz with this one, although I follow most of the OGs here, I always somehow resonate more with Miz, which is evident in my own analysis on my channnel. Maresca has been handed a poorly assembled squad stockpiled with younguns and cheap deals for a quick profit. Felix was opportunism. Gallagher actually could have contributed more than Enzo to the team at this point. Disasi, Badia lets not start. Sanchez is a sub par keeper for a top 4. Fofana seems shaky at times. Dont have a leade in defence (including GK obviously).
If anyone remembers, I literally called out the recruitment after the Newcastle game in the cup. I said give credit to Maresca for doing a decent job with such a poorly assembled squad. All we can do now is be patient and give Maresca time to clear out the players he doesn’t need and bring in the players to execute his plan to the fullest because right now he’s just trying to put pieces together of a puzzle that has missing pieces and also has pieces of another puzzle mixed together. I’m only half way through the vid, so you guys may mention it later on, but another guy I think you guys missed as to who could play that 10 role, if Palmer was to shift to the right, and is a player that Maresca DEFINITELY can trust, especially with off the ball work-rate is Dewsbury-Hall. He knows Maresca’s system down to a T & could definitely be more effective in those half spaces. Gusto holds the width, KDH moves over into the left half space & Palmer comes into the right half space & Maresca can definitely trust that defensive balance. It’s just whether Maresca wants to sacrifice having 2 wingers holding the width
So far DH hasn't impressed at all to be played consistently. Didn't even make the bench last game. We just need to not be too rigid with the 'system'. Nkunku and Palmer could both play together centrally if the width was provided by wingbacks or full backs. We're currently insistent on playing out wide wingers. Play two 10s of Nkunku and Palmer and you have depth of Sancho, Carney, Felix, Mudryk(?). Support them with an aggressive wing back for width like Neto, and a conservative one like Cucurella to offer balance. That would also suit likes of Gusto (who won't have to invert) and Enzo (who could remain deep more instead of unsuccessfully emulating Lampard). It also helps shore up the defence line with another added body. We aren't a outright high pressing team like Ange's Spurs or Klopp's Liverpool. We're trying to find balance currently, so why not just try things.
@@hnaku8748I agree, KDH hasn’t offered anything so far. I only brought him up because I was thinking more about that specific role of a player in the half space & he can get goals & assists, he knows Maresca’s system and he will offer that defensive balance/work rate that is required to play for Maresca that the fan base are talking about when it comes as to why Felix & Nkunku aren’t possibly playing. And I like you’re ideas too, it’s just I’m gonna take Maresca at face value and right now, his system is a 3-2-5 in possession and a 4-2-3-1/4-3-3 out of possession. It’s what has worked for him in his coaching career, so until he starts to move away from that, I’m just gonna try to think of ideas/sollutions within that frame. I do really like your idea though!
nah no credit to maresca, this same recruitment and squad that is shit, he agreed with it by taking the job and what made it worse is he said the squad was excellent in his first interview. he aint in control of anything and if boehly dont come and save this sinking ship we are done
Fully agree with Miz in this episode,Maresca's job is a lot more complicated than it seems there are key pieces missing in his system & the recruitment has messed up e.g Felix & Gallagher swap was unnecessary when that left half space would've been good for him on & off the ball
I hope you see this comment, I just want to ask the panel can we change the knife and fork design? it reminds me of West Ham. Could we separate the utensils please.
What about this! Back 3 : Levi centre, Reece rcb and play Wes LCB. Gusto rwb and Marc Lwb u can have both of them inverting taking turns. 2 cm: Caicedo, Lavia. 2 half spaces: Nkunku/ Neto , Palmer and striker Jackson
That's pretty good, but how bout this: Back 3: Jacky chan centre, the incredible hulk rcb and Eddie Murphy LCB. Bob the builder at rwb and a packet of Capri Sun as Lwb, u can have both of them inverting taking turns. 2cm: Scoobie Doo, Ronald MCdonald. 2 half spaces: Fat Joe/Dj Khaled, Paul Blart Mall Cop and striker is Harry Potter? Pretty decent lineup right?
That's Tuchel's Chelsea. Completely different to what Maresca wants to do. Maresca's main thing is 1v1 direct wingers and you've replaced them both with Fullbacks who won't cut onto their stronger (or weaker in this case) foot
Imagine Palmer wide , Gusto overlapping and nu Nkunku in the 10. That would cause oppositions so many problems . They wouldn’t know who to cover . I’d like to see us try that.
So Palmer on the right where he should be. Nkunku in the 10 where he should be and an overlapping RB.. you know I've been saying this since the rumour of us inverting our RB before Maresca even joined.. finally, someone else has seen sense 👏👏
Here's my issue; regardless of whether Maresca chosen to call it a B team or not, it is exactly that. Our first team are not currently well jelled enough or good enough to have the previlage of sitting out for a whole week and then play again. The switching out of 11 players is not allowing continuity and if anything has been the recent cause of our bad form because of the instability it's caused - namely Newcastle in the league vs Newcastle in the Cup. That instability breads bad results and bad results means we start to go down a slippery slope. He needs to have people from the the usual starting 11 starting with additional coming in. Not a whole new 11.
The solution is to push up caicedo into a box to box role to create a 5 in attack. And invert cucu into the pivot next to Lavia from lb. Reece James lcb, colwill CCB and fofana rcb.
Since RJ came back from injury the way we attacking hasn't been that good icl. Without RJ we sometime inverted between both fullback Cucu or Gusto and our attacking is much better unlike with RJ where he's never inverted always stays as a LCB or RCB. I need RJ to start inverting ASAP
@@mthorpe06 that's what I've been trying to tell people he's not ready. At this point just drop RJ for now cuz we can't go against another top 6 by playing him and not inverting at all
@@nyasha234bro I just noticed that since we dropped Enzo against Liverpool our attacking has regressed like there's no creativity at all in midfield. Yea we got Caicedo but he never does it oftenly
@@nyasha234 Playing big six teams killed our attack for now, also the fact that teams have seen us put 3/4/5/6 goals past opponents and are now more wise and cautious against Maresca/Chelsea
What we need to do is put a proper number ten in that attacking role the fullbacks are always going in, play three at the back and get one of the two holding midfielders to help out when defending. Most of our plays go through those fullbacks backs in attack and there is no end results.
This is simple, our front four needs to be Neto nkunku palmer and Jackson. They can all interchange depending on how the game is going. They are the four best attackers we have, there’s no doubt about that, so find a way to make them work. Lavia and Caicedo is a good platform behind them and then let the ballers ball.
I wanna talk about our midfield. As much I like Lavia he doesn't provide any creativity or make a pass forward always side way pass or pass it to the back which slow our build up play and Caicedo he does has the creativity bag but he does not make it oftenly. We got Enzo but his off the ball this season has really worry me and it will cause Caicedo too much job to work. This is why Santos or even Lesley are the perfect player that we need but instead we loan both of them this season kmt
@@sky3880 before we get exited, we need to try how Santos or Lesley works in this team. Maybe they don't. Many fans were dreaming about Enzo /Caicedo midfield but it didn't materialize.
People criticize Enzo Fernandez but I genuinely think we create better with him in the team. People talk about defending but all I can see is we still concede chances without him.
look at how Caicedo plays with Lavia and looks at how he plays with Enzo and tell me with a straight face we play better than Enzo. the same Enzo who has been poor all season. which is stupid to think about it because we brought in Maresca because the SDs were impressed with how he would utilise Enzo. so no, Enzo deserves to be benched.
@@rethabilefeni4694two different roles, so different performances for Caicedo. Moi isn’t a sitter which he was w/Enzo. So by this logic the comparison should prob Enzo v Caicedo w/Lavia behind either. Only one had that opportunity. FYI - I’m not defending Enzo.
@@wnsmith227 Caicedo when we was playing with Enzo was the DM. with Lavia, he is allowed to be a 8 b2b midfielder which suits him to a T. he doesn't have to cover much ground because Lavia can hold his own, unlike a certain £105 million midfielder.
@ we agree Moi is B2B. So if he’s not an adequate 6 wouldn’t that mean Lavia needs to be the constant when evaluating the two? Caicedo x Lavia vs Enzo x Lavia is where I’d evaluate from. There’s deficiencies with a 2-man pivot w/our options either way you go.
United is primarily only dangerous on the counter, so I was afraid we would play the way they did. Maresca admitted he thought they would be more aggressive on breaks. So we played to intentionally slowing the tempo and organizing in transition to keep the field from flipping too quickly. That gave us a lot of possession, but hurt us because we don’t create out of the break very well either
MIZis SPOT ON with Cole Palmer locked up by 3-4 players thats what I saw in Anfield and against UTD. Maresca need to create another ways and avenues for attackers and midfield!! Great Tactical Podcast Thanks to every panelist!! UP THE CHELS!!
Also when you watch the game back, it wasn’t really that bad. We played very well in large moments of that game. I’d say we need to try shooting more . Palmer had at least 2 opportunities to take a long shot but he opted to pass to the wing. This team is growing and will get better .
Jackson got us up the pitch with his hold up play and won us fouls. He was also pinning the back line up the pitch. If everyone drops deep it cuts out all the passing options and makes it dangerous for us on the counter attack
Better these types of streams than the depressing ones we used to have last 2 years. Best trust the process period. The board deserves credit! Swift and proactive building!! Lets not forget we are still 3rd last Epl,UCL & fa cup winners and last English Europa winner and long time but 4th last Efl cup winners.
We knew this period would show our true level. It's looking like it will be a fight for top 4, thats our level. Playing big six teams and the fact that teams have seen us put 3/4/5/6 goals past opponents early in the season means teams are more wise and cautious against us. Now need to give Maresca a little time to evolve the team some more Also our first team shows the good recruitment the directors have done. The next b team show the poor recruitment the directors have done, they're lucky we have conference league, it covers over the cracks of a lot of the recruiting
Need to stop forcing square pegs in round holes overall. Enzo plays better staying deeper, Gusto plays better being himself. Just play a normal 3-4-3 or something. Nkunku, Palmer, Enzo, Gusto all fit in. Like of Neto would need lesser adjustment as an aggressive wing back compared to Gusto playing Zidane role.
It’s not even a debate. Cucu should be playing left back and James should be inverted. Reason why Maresca isn’t inverting James is cos he risk getting injured playing that higher energy role
No we should inverting both of them like we did with cucu and Gusto. We can't let RJ inverting and if we do that we would make Fofanny plays as a ccb which he's not really great at and he already got coooked many times playing there for example united and Wolves games
Totally agree on the Reece James/Gusto thing. However, until James gets back to the top fitness levels, why not ask each of them to play one half? At least we get to see what Maresca is trying to implement.
Following on from when I mentioned why the defence is the way it is, the reason why Gusto is even in that right 8 position suddenly at ALL is because we have Lavia and Caicedo, who are not Enzo and Caicedo. If Maresca played Fernandez the way fans wanted him (deep lying playmaker beside the other 6), we wouldve seen a fullback push into the 8 (the way Gusto has been), rather into the 6. But when Maresca played Fernandez, he played him as that left 8, with Cole as the right 8, so Gusto was the 6 beside Caicedo. This made us look better than now because we had Cole in his natural right side position, while Fernandez was more incisive and controlled than Gusto in the left 8. Also the reason Cucu isn't playing half spaces may not necessarily be because Maresca doesnt rate him there, but the main reason of the CB placement - if Cucu inverts (into 6 or 8), naturally Colwill = LCB and Fofana = CCB - which is bad The solution could be pushing Caicedo into the 8 position the way he had Fernandez do it, but then are you risking destabilising what is potentially the most stable part of the team? (Lavia - Caicedo pivot). Or it could be Miz's point with Gusto holding width, with Palmer and another attacker in the half spaces. Miz mentioned Felix's issues? I bring to you Carney Chukwuemeka
Play a 3 at the back with wingbacks - gusto and reece james/cucurella . Caicedo and lavia as 2 DMs . Palmer just in front and nkunku and jackson as 2 strikers . (Nkunku became bundesliga top-scorer playing as a striker in a 2-man attack ) 3-4-1-2.
Play 3-2-4-1 3 CBs - james, aderabayo, colwill 2 DM - moises and romeo 4 attacking - neto felix palmer sanchez 1 striker - nkunku You can make this 3+2 - 5 defence & 4-1 -5 in attack
Maresca should play poch's last five games formation if we are getting found out .. Palmer on the RW,mudryk LW, Jackson ST,Nkunku CAM,Enzo and caseido 8 and 6,RB Gusto,Fofana and colwill double CB and cucurella inverting LB..
All I can say is all the players Maresca has subbed off at half time have dropped out if team A. I don’t expect to see this gusto experiment against Arsenal. Let him play on Thursday and come on for Reece on Sunday
I said this at the end of the summer transfer window and i am repeating it now... The Sporting Directors have the spotlight shining brightly on them this year, if it doesn't work then one or both of them should be considered to go. I just don't understand why we need two SD. We needed a new GK and Striker we spent the whole summer buying midfielders and no defenders
We have to beat Arsenal and convincingly as well. Arsenal will be playing their best lineup vs Inter Milan tomorrow night and we will be resting our main players once again so I want a convincing win the weekend at home.
We must take a step back and remember Maresca is a new coach with little experience and he is also learning on the job, so far he has done well. But he will mess up some games like starting two right backs recently hopefully he learns quickly from his mistakes and becomes a better Coach
I don't think teams have 'figured us out' necessarily. We're coming up against much more resolute opposition and combine that with Cole being left 8 and man marked (was still MOTM vs Newcastle in the left 8), we've been nullified. In the bigger games I fully support the idea of maximising Cole by not letting him be the only attacking 8 like vs United and Liverpool - play a felix or carney instead of gusto - but in the rest of the games we've come out on top even with the gusto nonsense we just need to keep our attackers firing like we did during the first 7 or so league games, which I believe they can against the likes of Leicester Villa So'Ton and Spurs (our next 4 after ARS)
With our wingers not showing up yet can we try playing Nkuku or felix on the wing? Or can one of them play on the 10 and try Palmer on the right? Switch it up some games? Or I’d love to see 4-3-1-2 and see if this unlocks Enzo? Enzo in a regista role or LCM? Neto or Nkuku or Felix as a second striker but off more to the left ………Neto/Nkuku…..Jackson ……………………..Palmer ………Enzo……Lavia……Caicedo
we tried this experiment already. let it go. Nkunku and Felix operate better at #10 positions. they are not wingers. and why are you putting Enzo in the starting lineup? what has that cuck done to get back in?
I admittedly am more positive about the Sporting Directors than most. I think honestly it hard to judge especially when the manager is less than 5 months in his position. I think even if you're overly pessimistic you could at least wait until January before saying recruiting was bad.
Miz is wrong, respectfully about people not rating our team. All of our forwards had 2 people marking all game. Midfielders got pressed defenders were left to their own devices.
It was a poor game tactically by Maresca. Man Utd was double teaming our players, they weren't doing anything with the ball, they were just disrupting and breaking our momentum. It was so scrappy.
I blame Maresca for what is happening to gusto . Gusto was our 2nd or 3rd best and most consistent player last year ,getting 9 assists in his first PL season is no joke . Maresca is making him learn too much too fast .last year he was just a RB/RWB . Now he is playing RB/RWB / LB / LWB / RM /AM /DM at times , like what the hell . Let him atleast perfect his actual position ,then move him and make him learn different positions .
Some signings dont make sense at all . Like felix we already had palmer and nkunku as no.10s ( paez coming in at 2025) Signing sancho, when we had madueke / mudryk / neto ( + estevao coming in 2025) Unless paez and estevao , are sent on straight loans , buying sancho and felix seem poor decisions. Signing jorgensen , and loaning petrovic out .
@theothersideofthecoin whatever video software they are using here, bring the best out your camera. Use it for your channel and the level goes up a notch!
The goalkeeper is the biggest problem after that it’s the defence we need a world class experienced centre half next to colwill. Tactically we need to be More flexible and utilise our bench.
It's funny that you guys are just realizing we aren't as good as people say we are. It's been obvious for a while. Recruitment has been very poor, and I am still watching Maresca. He might be a good coach, but I am not yet sure if he is Chelsea level, but I haven't given up on him yet.
I wouldn’t say he’s overestimating Man United. We have not won there in 11 years even when we were winning titles. You can’t fault Maresca for trying to get a result there . If we had lost to that man united team it would have been way more painful. Better to take at least a point and go. It’s easy to coach from your couch lol. He’s the one on the touch line . Good point . Now we have to handle arsenal at home.
Veiga cucurella James capable of inverting, but not gusto. Unfortunately, only James capable of playing as wingback out of all 4. The other 3 simply lacks output in final third.
We are playing with two CDM'S we need one of our wingers to step up consistently...relying on the palmer Jacskon linkup every game seems a little tricky. I don't think we are even in the top 10 in shots taken. I'll take a draw vs Arsenal and we need to be aggressive at the transfer window. Because if you're telling me we have the best RB best 10 and the best midfielder in the Prem we should be competing for titles....
That's not how it work buddy. It doesn't matter if u got best RB, best 10 and best dm when u got defence that aren't good enough and a gk who is liability who always make a mistake
I agree with u about the midfield. As much I like Lavia he doesn't provide any creativity or make a pass forward always side way pass or pass it to the back which slow our build up play and Caicedo he does has the creativity bag but he does not make it oftenly
@sky3880 Sanchez is a liability he also saved us from losing a game.. We have conceded 1 less goal than big bad arsenal supposed world class defense. The defense isn't what let us down vs United. A world class keeper should be our first target. I'm just saying Palmer needs someone else that can make something happen. Maybe it's Sancho maybe it's Neto. I've even heard for people in these chats asking to start Felix at the 10 and put Palmer on the right....I need Maresca to figure something out because we really are Cole Palmer FC and with the money we have spent there's no way we should be.
I know caicedo can play in the left pocket/ box to box like enzo this would allow reece to invert into midfeild with lavia and our formation would work
The other half space player who is better is Nkunku for me and not Felix until when Reece is ready or go get a man that can do 10 and can defend. That should be someone like Morgan Rogers
It's a mixmatch of profiles because the sporting directors seem to have full control, then they present it to the manager to figure it all out. Maresca says all the time he took the job because he fell in love with the team & set of players he was presented with. They've made his job more difficult imo, but they hired him possibly because he seemed like someone who would be up for it & understood what was needed of him. These owners want to stockpile as much young talent as possible for profit and make money first, then football second. The fact that he isn't expected to make top 4 this season was always a red flag to me. Like, wdym? you've spent over a billion, that should be the minimum requirement. So, not too much on Maresca, i'm watching this recruitment team closely. You've assembeled this team, it has to make sense at some point, and the standards & expectations have to rise drastically, cause then what the f are we doing?
do yall think this system would suit gallagher...we wanna play a 4 in midfield just like last season when cucu inverted and gallagher moved upfront to somewhat play in those half spaces whilst being flexible enough to press and get back to position when we were being counter attacked.....enzo isnt flexible and isnt strong enough to play tht role and our full backs dont give us the best passes in those positions......nd ofcouse gallagher had his flaws but suited the system better thn the rest....we somewhat need a good technical player who can be a creative outlet at times(meaning its not only palmer the opposition looks at).....is a work horse at pressing and getting back in postion......
Does Gusto play better without James in the squad? Does his age and inexperience means he feels the pressure of having someone like James coming for his spot?
Im starting to think cold palmer is dropping deep to often to start attacking moves. Enzo should start Felix as a 10 and move palmer RW. Felix can drop to pick up the ball easily.
@@tuffmbassador522 we paid £105 million for him and brought in a head coach just for him, in Maresca, and he is still @ss. so no, he is not overhated. he is overrated and overprotected.
We need to stop ignoring the fact that our creativity in our last 3 prem games has been dead. If we wanna continue this style then it has to be Reece in those areas that gusto gets in to.
Yep I like Lavia off the ball but my god he doesn't provide any progressive pass. I know Enzo getting cook cuz of his off the ball and on the ball not being consistent but we attack much better with him
@@sky3880 caicedo looks so much better without Enzo
@@sky3880how many passes from Enzo actually create goals? I think you’re conflating correlation with causation, we got a new midfield let it settle and we’ll see what works.
DrogBaba needs more game time. He's being given Nkunku pity minutes. Let the brother speak more.
He didn't speak that much due to his own accord it looked like to me, i get you tho styll, man gotta talk more 😂
Sanchez(G){Until further notice}
Cucurella(LB)
Colwill(CB)
James(CB){For his fitness and he is a better footballer than Fofana overall}
Gusto(RB){Stay wide when moving forward}
Caicedo(CM)
Lavia(CM)
Nkunku(AM) or Felix ,but Nkunku will work hard off the ball
Neto(LW)
Palmer(RW){Invert}
Jackson(S)
I think this could be a solution based on what you guys said and could be exciting to watch.
@@CharvanoDaniels seems like a solution, having nkunku would also create another threat for the opposition to think about
Yes I’m tired of Madueke and fofana
Yes ,nkunku is more physical and just a better player than felix .
I think this Chelsea team right now is built perfectly to play the 3-4-3 formation and also you can invert the wingbacks in Cucurella and Gusto in build up play
So I agree with having (Reece, Fofana, Colwill as CB)
Cucurella and Gusto as wingbacks
Then Lavia and Caicedo as the CMs
Then invert the wide forwards in Nkunku and Palmer with Jackson up front
@ yes that might actually work tbh. And nkunku thrives with that formation . However idk if maresca will do that.
We must beat arsenal on the weekend
I have a bad feeling we do not going to win, but get a draw against arsenal😢😢😢
I'd do anything for a win but I smell a draw incoming😭
Don’t hold your breath fella, it’s a more than likely loss incoming.
I will take a draw all day long because we are the ideal team to face for Arsenal to get back to winning ways. They defend well and are good at set pieces and they are a counter attacking team.
@@shobith241183 Sadly I agree with you. They have the perfect height in their squad to get goals from setpieces, which we suck at cause our squad is one of the shortest in the prem. Plus we don't really defend transitions well and we also struggle against teams that set up really well defensively (low block, mid block)
In my opinion ,you cant get the best version of madueke or gusto if they start together ,because both of them want to hug the touchline .
Last ssn gusto in his first PL season got 9 assists ,when he hugged the touchline and palmer was playing as a RW , however palmer unlike madueke kepts cutting in and coming central ,playing as a RM .
Starting gusto as an outright winger would be stupidity .
The only other option is to play a 3ATB with wingbacks - gusto and reece james/cucurella . Caicedo and lavia as 2 DMs .
Palmer just in front and nkunku and jackson as 2 strikers .
(Nkunku became bundesliga top-scorer playing as a striker in a 2-man attack )
Maresca has raised our standards so much , Top 4 isn't enough 😂😂😂😂😂
or we are a big club before that scrub maresca arrived and we have high expectations
I'm on Miz with this one, although I follow most of the OGs here, I always somehow resonate more with Miz, which is evident in my own analysis on my channnel.
Maresca has been handed a poorly assembled squad stockpiled with younguns and cheap deals for a quick profit. Felix was opportunism. Gallagher actually could have contributed more than Enzo to the team at this point.
Disasi, Badia lets not start.
Sanchez is a sub par keeper for a top 4.
Fofana seems shaky at times. Dont have a leade in defence (including GK obviously).
If anyone remembers, I literally called out the recruitment after the Newcastle game in the cup. I said give credit to Maresca for doing a decent job with such a poorly assembled squad. All we can do now is be patient and give Maresca time to clear out the players he doesn’t need and bring in the players to execute his plan to the fullest because right now he’s just trying to put pieces together of a puzzle that has missing pieces and also has pieces of another puzzle mixed together.
I’m only half way through the vid, so you guys may mention it later on, but another guy I think you guys missed as to who could play that 10 role, if Palmer was to shift to the right, and is a player that Maresca DEFINITELY can trust, especially with off the ball work-rate is Dewsbury-Hall. He knows Maresca’s system down to a T & could definitely be more effective in those half spaces. Gusto holds the width, KDH moves over into the left half space & Palmer comes into the right half space & Maresca can definitely trust that defensive balance. It’s just whether Maresca wants to sacrifice having 2 wingers holding the width
So far DH hasn't impressed at all to be played consistently. Didn't even make the bench last game. We just need to not be too rigid with the 'system'. Nkunku and Palmer could both play together centrally if the width was provided by wingbacks or full backs. We're currently insistent on playing out wide wingers. Play two 10s of Nkunku and Palmer and you have depth of Sancho, Carney, Felix, Mudryk(?). Support them with an aggressive wing back for width like Neto, and a conservative one like Cucurella to offer balance. That would also suit likes of Gusto (who won't have to invert) and Enzo (who could remain deep more instead of unsuccessfully emulating Lampard). It also helps shore up the defence line with another added body.
We aren't a outright high pressing team like Ange's Spurs or Klopp's Liverpool. We're trying to find balance currently, so why not just try things.
Great Analysis Brother!!
@@hnaku8748I agree, KDH hasn’t offered anything so far. I only brought him up because I was thinking more about that specific role of a player in the half space & he can get goals & assists, he knows Maresca’s system and he will offer that defensive balance/work rate that is required to play for Maresca that the fan base are talking about when it comes as to why Felix & Nkunku aren’t possibly playing. And I like you’re ideas too, it’s just I’m gonna take Maresca at face value and right now, his system is a 3-2-5 in possession and a 4-2-3-1/4-3-3 out of possession. It’s what has worked for him in his coaching career, so until he starts to move away from that, I’m just gonna try to think of ideas/sollutions within that frame. I do really like your idea though!
nah no credit to maresca, this same recruitment and squad that is shit, he agreed with it by taking the job and what made it worse is he said the squad was excellent in his first interview. he aint in control of anything and if boehly dont come and save this sinking ship we are done
Fully agree with Miz in this episode,Maresca's job is a lot more complicated than it seems there are key pieces missing in his system & the recruitment has messed up e.g Felix & Gallagher swap was unnecessary when that left half space would've been good for him on & off the ball
Idk bout on the ball ☠️ but he would provide us goals if he plays that Enzo role Maresca forced him to play
@sky3880 This is true
I hope you see this comment, I just want to ask the panel can we change the knife and fork design? it reminds me of West Ham. Could we separate the utensils please.
😂😂
What about this! Back 3 : Levi centre, Reece rcb and play Wes LCB. Gusto rwb and Marc Lwb u can have both of them inverting taking turns. 2 cm: Caicedo, Lavia. 2 half spaces: Nkunku/ Neto , Palmer and striker Jackson
That's pretty good, but how bout this: Back 3: Jacky chan centre, the incredible hulk rcb and Eddie Murphy LCB. Bob the builder at rwb and a packet of Capri Sun as Lwb, u can have both of them inverting taking turns. 2cm: Scoobie Doo, Ronald MCdonald. 2 half spaces: Fat Joe/Dj Khaled, Paul Blart Mall Cop and striker is Harry Potter? Pretty decent lineup right?
That's Tuchel's Chelsea. Completely different to what Maresca wants to do. Maresca's main thing is 1v1 direct wingers and you've replaced them both with Fullbacks who won't cut onto their stronger (or weaker in this case) foot
Imagine Palmer wide , Gusto overlapping and nu Nkunku in the 10. That would cause oppositions so many problems . They wouldn’t know who to cover . I’d like to see us try that.
So Palmer on the right where he should be. Nkunku in the 10 where he should be and an overlapping RB.. you know I've been saying this since the rumour of us inverting our RB before Maresca even joined.. finally, someone else has seen sense 👏👏
Here's my issue; regardless of whether Maresca chosen to call it a B team or not, it is exactly that. Our first team are not currently well jelled enough or good enough to have the previlage of sitting out for a whole week and then play again. The switching out of 11 players is not allowing continuity and if anything has been the recent cause of our bad form because of the instability it's caused - namely Newcastle in the league vs Newcastle in the Cup. That instability breads bad results and bad results means we start to go down a slippery slope. He needs to have people from the the usual starting 11 starting with additional coming in. Not a whole new 11.
The solution is to push up caicedo into a box to box role to create a 5 in attack. And invert cucu into the pivot next to Lavia from lb. Reece James lcb, colwill CCB and fofana rcb.
Why change caicedo roll he’s been absolutely killing it. If colwill can’t handle the LCB roll then drop him as he’s the outlier if that’s the case.
@@JamesAttwood-f3m it’s not just about colwill out wide. Fofana is also not great in the middle.
🤮🤮🤮😂😂😂biggest waffle ever, invert fullback yah nuh, ur most defensive midfielder creating attacking five yah nuh, u chelsea fans are brainwashed
Since RJ came back from injury the way we attacking hasn't been that good icl. Without RJ we sometime inverted between both fullback Cucu or Gusto and our attacking is much better unlike with RJ where he's never inverted always stays as a LCB or RCB. I need RJ to start inverting ASAP
Sure if you want RJ to get injured again.
@@mthorpe06 that's what I've been trying to tell people he's not ready. At this point just drop RJ for now cuz we can't go against another top 6 by playing him and not inverting at all
That's crazy. People don't want to say the truth. The change from Enzo to Lavia killed our attack
@@nyasha234bro I just noticed that since we dropped Enzo against Liverpool our attacking has regressed like there's no creativity at all in midfield. Yea we got Caicedo but he never does it oftenly
@@nyasha234 Playing big six teams killed our attack for now, also the fact that teams have seen us put 3/4/5/6 goals past opponents and are now more wise and cautious against Maresca/Chelsea
What we need to do is put a proper number ten in that attacking role the fullbacks are always going in, play three at the back and get one of the two holding midfielders to help out when defending. Most of our plays go through those fullbacks backs in attack and there is no end results.
This is simple, our front four needs to be Neto nkunku palmer and Jackson. They can all interchange depending on how the game is going. They are the four best attackers we have, there’s no doubt about that, so find a way to make them work. Lavia and Caicedo is a good platform behind them and then let the ballers ball.
not a Chelsea fan but that math tutor analogy hurt, I am that kid haha
I wanna talk about our midfield. As much I like Lavia he doesn't provide any creativity or make a pass forward always side way pass or pass it to the back which slow our build up play and Caicedo he does has the creativity bag but he does not make it oftenly. We got Enzo but his off the ball this season has really worry me and it will cause Caicedo too much job to work. This is why Santos or even Lesley are the perfect player that we need but instead we loan both of them this season kmt
@@sky3880 before we get exited, we need to try how Santos or Lesley works in this team. Maybe they don't. Many fans were dreaming about Enzo /Caicedo midfield but it didn't materialize.
We have seen caicedo and Enzo, it is bad
People criticize Enzo Fernandez but I genuinely think we create better with him in the team. People talk about defending but all I can see is we still concede chances without him.
look at how Caicedo plays with Lavia and looks at how he plays with Enzo and tell me with a straight face we play better than Enzo.
the same Enzo who has been poor all season.
which is stupid to think about it because we brought in Maresca because the SDs were impressed with how he would utilise Enzo.
so no, Enzo deserves to be benched.
@@rethabilefeni4694two different roles, so different performances for Caicedo. Moi isn’t a sitter which he was w/Enzo. So by this logic the comparison should prob Enzo v Caicedo w/Lavia behind either. Only one had that opportunity. FYI - I’m not defending Enzo.
@@wnsmith227
Caicedo when we was playing with Enzo was the DM.
with Lavia, he is allowed to be a 8 b2b midfielder which suits him to a T.
he doesn't have to cover much ground because Lavia can hold his own, unlike a certain £105 million midfielder.
@ we agree Moi is B2B. So if he’s not an adequate 6 wouldn’t that mean Lavia needs to be the constant when evaluating the two?
Caicedo x Lavia vs Enzo x Lavia is where I’d evaluate from. There’s deficiencies with a 2-man pivot w/our options either way you go.
@@rethabilefeni4694 the difference is who plays as the 2 10s. Palmer and gusto is not better than Enzo and palmer.
Matisse, don’t you dare jinx us again by giving the funky score predictions.😅
United is primarily only dangerous on the counter, so I was afraid we would play the way they did. Maresca admitted he thought they would be more aggressive on breaks. So we played to intentionally slowing the tempo and organizing in transition to keep the field from flipping too quickly. That gave us a lot of possession, but hurt us because we don’t create out of the break very well either
MIZis SPOT ON with Cole Palmer locked up by 3-4 players thats what I saw in Anfield and against UTD. Maresca need to create another ways and avenues for attackers and midfield!!
Great Tactical Podcast Thanks to every panelist!! UP THE CHELS!!
Also when you watch the game back, it wasn’t really that bad. We played very well in large moments of that game. I’d say we need to try shooting more . Palmer had at least 2 opportunities to take a long shot but he opted to pass to the wing. This team is growing and will get better .
Jackson got us up the pitch with his hold up play and won us fouls. He was also pinning the back line up the pitch. If everyone drops deep it cuts out all the passing options and makes it dangerous for us on the counter attack
Fullbacks as 10’s is absolute nonsense I’m sorry man.
Better these types of streams than the depressing ones we used to have last 2 years. Best trust the process period. The board deserves credit! Swift and proactive building!! Lets not forget we are still 3rd last Epl,UCL & fa cup winners and last English Europa winner and long time but 4th last Efl cup winners.
We knew this period would show our true level. It's looking like it will be a fight for top 4, thats our level. Playing big six teams and the fact that teams have seen us put 3/4/5/6 goals past opponents early in the season means teams are more wise and cautious against us. Now need to give Maresca a little time to evolve the team some more
Also our first team shows the good recruitment the directors have done. The next b team show the poor recruitment the directors have done, they're lucky we have conference league, it covers over the cracks of a lot of the recruiting
It’s time to crash this gusto at 10 nonsense.
Gusto is doing the Enzo role now cuz Lavia always stays in his base u never seen Lavia doing it
Need to stop forcing square pegs in round holes overall. Enzo plays better staying deeper, Gusto plays better being himself. Just play a normal 3-4-3 or something. Nkunku, Palmer, Enzo, Gusto all fit in. Like of Neto would need lesser adjustment as an aggressive wing back compared to Gusto playing Zidane role.
@@sky3880there is no e so role, stop glazing mediocrity
@@hnaku8748Enzo doesn’t fit anywhere in that midfield
@@zikorajoe7093 He fit perfectly fine until Pochettino started using him like Frank Lampard and the virus caught Maresca too.
It’s not even a debate. Cucu should be playing left back and James should be inverted. Reason why Maresca isn’t inverting James is cos he risk getting injured playing that higher energy role
No we should inverting both of them like we did with cucu and Gusto. We can't let RJ inverting and if we do that we would make Fofanny plays as a ccb which he's not really great at and he already got coooked many times playing there for example united and Wolves games
Are you dumb. Leave reece to what he does best. Overlapping. Invert from the left or don't bother.
Spot on Miz!
Great episode you man!
Big ups!!!
Totally agree on the Reece James/Gusto thing. However, until James gets back to the top fitness levels, why not ask each of them to play one half? At least we get to see what Maresca is trying to implement.
very good and critical discussion. Up the chels!
Following on from when I mentioned why the defence is the way it is, the reason why Gusto is even in that right 8 position suddenly at ALL is because we have Lavia and Caicedo, who are not Enzo and Caicedo.
If Maresca played Fernandez the way fans wanted him (deep lying playmaker beside the other 6), we wouldve seen a fullback push into the 8 (the way Gusto has been), rather into the 6. But when Maresca played Fernandez, he played him as that left 8, with Cole as the right 8, so Gusto was the 6 beside Caicedo. This made us look better than now because we had Cole in his natural right side position, while Fernandez was more incisive and controlled than Gusto in the left 8.
Also the reason Cucu isn't playing half spaces may not necessarily be because Maresca doesnt rate him there, but the main reason of the CB placement - if Cucu inverts (into 6 or 8), naturally Colwill = LCB and Fofana = CCB - which is bad
The solution could be pushing Caicedo into the 8 position the way he had Fernandez do it, but then are you risking destabilising what is potentially the most stable part of the team? (Lavia - Caicedo pivot).
Or it could be Miz's point with Gusto holding width, with Palmer and another attacker in the half spaces. Miz mentioned Felix's issues? I bring to you Carney Chukwuemeka
Play a 3 at the back with wingbacks - gusto and reece james/cucurella . Caicedo and lavia as 2 DMs .
Palmer just in front and nkunku and jackson as 2 strikers .
(Nkunku became bundesliga top-scorer playing as a striker in a 2-man attack )
3-4-1-2.
Would you take touchameni for enzo? I would take that deal all day. I don’t have the patience for enzo and having that tall DM build would suit us.
Sancho improve our attack man
A tactical Masterclass from MIZ love it
Play 3-2-4-1
3 CBs - james, aderabayo, colwill
2 DM - moises and romeo
4 attacking - neto felix palmer sanchez
1 striker - nkunku
You can make this 3+2 - 5 defence & 4-1 -5 in attack
Felix???? Are you giving candidates for a beuty contest? I think you are lost here. We are talking about football.
Maresca should play poch's last five games formation if we are getting found out .. Palmer on the RW,mudryk LW, Jackson ST,Nkunku CAM,Enzo and caseido 8 and 6,RB Gusto,Fofana and colwill double CB and cucurella inverting LB..
All I can say is all the players Maresca has subbed off at half time have dropped out if team A. I don’t expect to see this gusto experiment against Arsenal. Let him play on Thursday and come on for Reece on Sunday
We are not getting any trophies except we get an real striker, center back and goalkeeper
I said this at the end of the summer transfer window and i am repeating it now... The Sporting Directors have the spotlight shining brightly on them this year, if it doesn't work then one or both of them should be considered to go. I just don't understand why we need two SD. We needed a new GK and Striker we spent the whole summer buying midfielders and no defenders
We have to beat Arsenal and convincingly as well. Arsenal will be playing their best lineup vs Inter Milan tomorrow night and we will be resting our main players once again so I want a convincing win the weekend at home.
We must take a step back and remember Maresca is a new coach with little experience and he is also learning on the job, so far he has done well. But he will mess up some games like starting two right backs recently hopefully he learns quickly from his mistakes and becomes a better Coach
I don't think teams have 'figured us out' necessarily. We're coming up against much more resolute opposition and combine that with Cole being left 8 and man marked (was still MOTM vs Newcastle in the left 8), we've been nullified.
In the bigger games I fully support the idea of maximising Cole by not letting him be the only attacking 8 like vs United and Liverpool - play a felix or carney instead of gusto - but in the rest of the games we've come out on top even with the gusto nonsense
we just need to keep our attackers firing like we did during the first 7 or so league games, which I believe they can against the likes of Leicester Villa So'Ton and Spurs (our next 4 after ARS)
Miz with a 5 star performance this episode, good work
Arsenal and Arteta crumble under pressure, like a sugar cube in boiling water. We have everything to win, Up the Chels!
With our wingers not showing up yet can we try playing Nkuku or felix on the wing? Or can one of them play on the 10 and try Palmer on the right? Switch it up some games? Or I’d love to see 4-3-1-2 and see if this unlocks Enzo? Enzo in a regista role or LCM? Neto or Nkuku or Felix as a second striker but off more to the left
………Neto/Nkuku…..Jackson
……………………..Palmer
………Enzo……Lavia……Caicedo
we tried this experiment already. let it go.
Nkunku and Felix operate better at #10 positions. they are not wingers.
and why are you putting Enzo in the starting lineup? what has that cuck done to get back in?
I admittedly am more positive about the Sporting Directors than most. I think honestly it hard to judge especially when the manager is less than 5 months in his position. I think even if you're overly pessimistic you could at least wait until January before saying recruiting was bad.
The 4 other guys including MAH are Gurus. NO CAP.
Miz is wrong, respectfully about people not rating our team. All of our forwards had 2 people marking all game. Midfielders got pressed defenders were left to their own devices.
It was a poor game tactically by Maresca. Man Utd was double teaming our players, they weren't doing anything with the ball, they were just disrupting and breaking our momentum. It was so scrappy.
I blame Maresca for what is happening to gusto .
Gusto was our 2nd or 3rd best and most consistent player last year ,getting 9 assists in his first PL season is no joke .
Maresca is making him learn too much too fast .last year he was just a RB/RWB . Now he is playing RB/RWB / LB / LWB / RM /AM /DM at times , like what the hell .
Let him atleast perfect his actual position ,then move him and make him learn different positions .
Some signings dont make sense at all .
Like felix we already had palmer and nkunku as no.10s ( paez coming in at 2025)
Signing sancho, when we had madueke / mudryk / neto ( + estevao coming in 2025)
Unless paez and estevao , are sent on straight loans , buying sancho and felix seem poor decisions.
Signing jorgensen , and loaning petrovic out .
@theothersideofthecoin whatever video software they are using here, bring the best out your camera. Use it for your channel and the level goes up a notch!
The goalkeeper is the biggest problem after that it’s the defence we need a world class experienced centre half next to colwill.
Tactically we need to be
More flexible and utilise our bench.
I don't know if anyone has been watching but GYOKERES is an absolute problem and needs to be Chelsea's next signing!
Cucurella all day long. I love Gusto too but we need Cucurella energy and running. He is 100% committed to the cause.
Noni needs to step up as Estavao will breeze into the starting line up based on his form.
Gusto and Cucu can’t be the free guy period.
Sanchez was the culprit that gifted Manchester United undeserved pen
Major problem is Maresca wants to fit Reece James into the team but he is not totally himself yet.
It's funny that you guys are just realizing we aren't as good as people say we are. It's been obvious for a while. Recruitment has been very poor, and I am still watching Maresca. He might be a good coach, but I am not yet sure if he is Chelsea level, but I haven't given up on him yet.
I’d like to see a 3-4-2-1 with 2 10s in Nkunku and Palmer then have wingbacks .
Enzo M should not dumb down the system. We are where we are, which if everyone is honest is ahead of where we all thought.
I agree with the guy at the (2nd to the left), he is a genius, giving standout points.
He should be a coach. Just saying.
Put Chukwemeka in there and you solve that problem . I don’t understand why that lad with bundles of potential is being frozen out like that
Yes perhaps we should move Cole back to right wing, but this time more overlapping and space for him to drift in
Who starts in the 10
It's times like this that Conor Gallagher would have been great to have in this team.
Lol
F Galladog ☠️ how bout Santos we literally got him his profile is complete that we really need in midfield
For?
If Gallagher is the answer, we are going straight to hell
Bring back Enzo f the hate he gets he allows the rest of team to gel more than lavia
I wouldn’t say he’s overestimating Man United. We have not won there in 11 years even when we were winning titles. You can’t fault Maresca for trying to get a result there . If we had lost to that man united team it would have been way more painful. Better to take at least a point and go. It’s easy to coach from your couch lol. He’s the one on the touch line . Good point . Now we have to handle arsenal at home.
Veiga cucurella James capable of inverting, but not gusto. Unfortunately, only James capable of playing as wingback out of all 4. The other 3 simply lacks output in final third.
We are playing with two CDM'S we need one of our wingers to step up consistently...relying on the palmer Jacskon linkup every game seems a little tricky. I don't think we are even in the top 10 in shots taken. I'll take a draw vs Arsenal and we need to be aggressive at the transfer window. Because if you're telling me we have the best RB best 10 and the best midfielder in the Prem we should be competing for titles....
That's not how it work buddy. It doesn't matter if u got best RB, best 10 and best dm when u got defence that aren't good enough and a gk who is liability who always make a mistake
I agree with u about the midfield. As much I like Lavia he doesn't provide any creativity or make a pass forward always side way pass or pass it to the back which slow our build up play and Caicedo he does has the creativity bag but he does not make it oftenly
@sky3880 Sanchez is a liability he also saved us from losing a game.. We have conceded 1 less goal than big bad arsenal supposed world class defense. The defense isn't what let us down vs United. A world class keeper should be our first target. I'm just saying Palmer needs someone else that can make something happen. Maybe it's Sancho maybe it's Neto. I've even heard for people in these chats asking to start Felix at the 10 and put Palmer on the right....I need Maresca to figure something out because we really are Cole Palmer FC and with the money we have spent there's no way we should be.
We need to find a way to play palmer, nkunku and Jackson in the same team.
The Big 5 assemble💯
Cucurella going forward is underrated
I know caicedo can play in the left pocket/ box to box like enzo this would allow reece to invert into midfeild with lavia and our formation would work
@@derron1253 James can not invert his hamstrings right now can not hold that pressure
Can caiceido play that gusto role as a solution ?
I can't wait for the day this fan base all agrees together that Madueke and Colwill need replacing
The other half space player who is better is Nkunku for me and not Felix until when Reece is ready or go get a man that can do 10 and can defend. That should be someone like Morgan Rogers
In that case, Felix, Enzo, are for me useless for this system
We better win next week man 😤😤 no excuse and gaffer should stop playing sanches 😤😤
Against Man U I felt Nkunku needed to come on for Madueke, Palmer to go to the right and Nkunku in the 10
It's a mixmatch of profiles because the sporting directors seem to have full control, then they present it to the manager to figure it all out. Maresca says all the time he took the job because he fell in love with the team & set of players he was presented with. They've made his job more difficult imo, but they hired him possibly because he seemed like someone who would be up for it & understood what was needed of him.
These owners want to stockpile as much young talent as possible for profit and make money first, then football second. The fact that he isn't expected to make top 4 this season was always a red flag to me. Like, wdym? you've spent over a billion, that should be the minimum requirement. So, not too much on Maresca, i'm watching this recruitment team closely. You've assembeled this team, it has to make sense at some point, and the standards & expectations have to rise drastically, cause then what the f are we doing?
do yall think this system would suit gallagher...we wanna play a 4 in midfield just like last season when cucu inverted and gallagher moved upfront to somewhat play in those half spaces whilst being flexible enough to press and get back to position when we were being counter attacked.....enzo isnt flexible and isnt strong enough to play tht role and our full backs dont give us the best passes in those positions......nd ofcouse gallagher had his flaws but suited the system better thn the rest....we somewhat need a good technical player who can be a creative outlet at times(meaning its not only palmer the opposition looks at).....is a work horse at pressing and getting back in postion......
Felix can play LW too and move Neto to right wing.
Felix is not a LW. he operates/plays better in the 10 position.
Felix wouldn’t be trusted to do the defensive work
Watch gusto put in a world class performance on Sunday 😂😂
5K TO GO MAH🤑🥳
Maresca needs to get Palmer, Nkunku and Felix in to the same team as Neto. Players who can make something out of nothing.
Does Gusto play better without James in the squad? Does his age and inexperience means he feels the pressure of having someone like James coming for his spot?
If his issue is he played Nkunku and felix the whole 90 in the caraboa, then thats just stupid. He is digging himself a grave
Play Palmer right wing then and play Nkunku, Felix, Sancho, chukuwemeka, casadei in the 10 and have gusto or Reece James keep the with.
I think the team stooped down to the level of Man U because it is a very young team. They’ll learn from this
I have an idea. Player players in their position. Not gonna lie Maresca looking shaky.
I’m hearing Palmer might be injured 😭 let’s hope it’s just rumors
There is no new solution. Maresca has not been found out. We need to simplify- you guys were on the right path and then started just talking to talk.
Jao Felix needs to be the free on.
Im starting to think cold palmer is dropping deep to often to start attacking moves. Enzo should start Felix as a 10 and move palmer RW. Felix can drop to pick up the ball easily.
no, Enzo doesn't deserve to start over anyone. especially after his poor performances.
he is where he belongs, the bench.
@@rethabilefeni4694 he's over hated him in the team makes us attack better
@@tuffmbassador522 we paid £105 million for him and brought in a head coach just for him, in Maresca, and he is still @ss.
so no, he is not overhated. he is overrated and overprotected.
I called the gusto thing weeks back. I don’t see what Maresca sees here.