“Like a yo-yo” – Gary Neville pins blame on Enzo Maresca for inconsistent Chelsea form | OneFootball

Former Manchester United defender Gary Neville has pinned his blame on Enzo Maresca for Chelsea’s inconsistent form.

The Sky Sports pundit was speaking after Chelsea’s 2-1 defeat against Sunderland from Saturday and generally just reviewing their season so far.

EXCLUSIVE! Chelsea close in on new Front of Shirt Sponsor and the name that is expected to be announced on the shirts!!

That defeat saw Chelsea drop to 9th in the Premier League after 9 games played and that cannot be seen as anywhere near good enough for anyone involved in the club right now.

Chelsea were just poor really all afternoon against Sunderland, but they did take the lead and really, had so many chances to finish the visitors off. But they threw it away in the end, as you can read all about in our full match report.

Unfortunately up, top, striker Marc Guiu ghosted the entire match after being handed a rare start in a Chelsea shirt.

Neville on Chelsea

Gary Neville speaks on his podcast.

Gary Neville was quoted by The Chelsea Chronicle as saying:

“Chelsea, again, inconsistent. I mean what you want in life from everybody that you work with is consistency and reliability, particularly at the top level in a high-performance environment. We’re talking about all these teams. Liverpool, Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea, they’ve all been inconsistent in parts of this season and they need to try and find that.

“Chelsea I thought were fantastic against Liverpool a few weeks ago. I thought they were awful a week or two before that at Old Trafford. That’s not good enough. The money that has been spent on these squads, the managers have to get more out of them.

“Is it the players that have been recruited, or is it the managers that have dropped off? I think we’re seeing that. I know Pep’s still here, but there’s no doubt there was a period 5/6 years ago when the managers were all the very best in Europe, and when those managers have left one by one, football just drops.

“For Chelsea, they’ll be really frustrated. They’re up and down like a yo-yo.”