“Huge pressure” – Alan Shearer and Gary Lineker discuss Enzo Maresca’s current position | OneFootball

Is Enzo Maresca really under huge pressure right now? Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer have been discussing it.

We are in the wake of Chelsea being defeated 3-1 by Brighton at Stamford Bridge in the Premier League on Saturday afternoon.

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Chelsea were massively hindered in this game when midfielder Andrey Santos took a poor touch and made a poor pass, under very little pressure out on the right hand side. That handed the ball to Diego Gomez, and when Trevoh Chalobah brought him down on the edge of the area, we all knew what was coming – even if it did take VAR a while to figure it out. Chalobah was given his marching orders and Chelsea had an uphill struggle to see the game out with ten men, which of course they didn’t manage to do.

Shearer and Lineker discuss

Enzo Maresca after a cup game. (Photo by Justin Setterfield/Getty Images)

So, is Maresca now under pressure? Should he be?

Lineker said: “It’s funny football isn’t it. Maresca is apparently now under pressure. He won two trophies recently, he’s got Palmer out. Surely not? He’s just won the Club World Cup.”

Shearer added: “He was probably expected to win the Conference League with Chelsea, but there weren’t too many people that tipped Chelsea to win the Club World Cup, and he did win it.

“He’s lost two games in a row, and he’s lost them because essentially both times he’s gone down to 10 men, and we know how difficult that it is.

“Because of it being Chelsea, you’re not going to get too much sympathy. Should he be under pressure? In my opinion, no, because he’s lost two games, but you know when you sign up to that football club that anything can happen. You know the rules when you sign up to Chelsea, that can happen to you. Two losses and you’re under huge pressure is madness in football, but doesn’t surprise me at Chelsea.”

Quotes via The Rest is Football Podcast.