“That’s the key” – Chelsea player’s worrying claim shows Maresca’s tactics hurt Chelsea | OneFootball

Trevoh Chalobah isn’t just this Chelsea team’s best defender right now, he’s also becoming their leader.

He took the heat of speaking to Sky Sports after the game, and did the same with Chelsea TV. His emotion and passion really came through in the interview, and you can hear how much the bad result hurts him.

Chalobah on “tough” result for Blues

Trevoh Chalobah in action. (Photo by Justin Setterfield/Getty Images)

“It was really tough,” the defender said in quotes picked up by the club’s official website.

“I want to take this opportunity to say sorry to the fans. That performance was not the level we want to show and it was difficult, especially in the first 20 minutes, with everything that happened.”

Chalobah identifies problem with Chelsea

More pertinently, the defender identified exactly what’s wrong with this team, a problem which actually goes back far beyond just this game:

“We can’t react when we go 2-0 down, we have to react from the moment the whistle goes. Obviously we got the goal and we were pushing and pushing, but it’s always difficult to come back when you go 2-0 down. We just need to start the game properly. That’s the key, to start the game well.”

“So we’ve just got to learn, start games on the front foot, start games the way we want to start. That’s what we have to learn from the past few games. That is not the level we want to show, but we have to learn from it. It’s a long season, we can’t dwell on this, but we have to learn from it.”

It seems to us that the reason we’re often better once we go 2-0 down is that at that point, we thrown Enzo Maresca’s sideways passing out of the window and start actually moving the ball forward quickly, which always hurts the opposition more.