Maresca must now drop 5/10 Chelsea dud who won zero duels

While there have been objectives aplenty involving the opposite Premier League sides dotted round London on Sunday, Brentford versus Chelsea would sadly produce a 0-0 stalemate.

Enzo Maresca’s facet did handle to amass 21 pictures on the Bees web, nonetheless, however wasteful ending all through can be their downfall, with the goal-shy Blues solely registering three objectives now throughout their final 5 clashes in all competitions.

Off the again of one other drab exhibiting – this time towards Thomas Frank’s males – Maresca’s ever-thinning confidence with Christopher Nkunku may now be at an all-time low, with the previous RB Leipzig attacker hooked off on the half-time interval after a dire first 45 minutes.

Nkunku’s efficiency in numbers

The ex-Leicester Metropolis boss should have regretted pushing the hot-and-cold Frenchman again into the first-team highlight, having gone with another face in Nicolas Jackson up high final day out as Chelsea beat Tottenham Hotspur 1-0.

Solely firing house three Premier League objectives all season lengthy, Nkunku would squander one huge likelihood throughout his transient stint on the Gtech pitch, with a purpose discovering the again of the web coming towards the run of play arguably, because the Bees usual a complete host of alternatives courtesy of Bryan Mbeumo and Co.

Away from this one missed effort, nonetheless, Nkunku was largely nameless with simply 22 touches of the ball tallied up earlier than he was put out of his distress on the half-time break.

Shifting ahead, Maresca will certainly stick with Jackson as his most important marksman over the 27-year-old, however he may additionally start to really feel quick on persistence on the subject of considered one of Nkunku’s attacking teammates, regardless of the attacker in query solely simply recovering from an damage difficulty.

Madueke’s efficiency in numbers

Alongside Maresca altering up the look of his beginning XI to accommodate for Nkunku, the Italian additionally gifted Noni Madueke the beginning at Brentford, with the Barnet-born ace now presumably freed from his hamstring concern.

Not like Nkunku, Madueke has commonly impressed Chelsea followers this season within the demanding Premier League, with the previous PSV Eindhoven winger as much as ten purpose contributions alone within the top-flight.

Nonetheless, because the desk above illuminates, everyone seems to be liable to an off-day.

Certainly, the below-par 23-year-old would solely handle to muster up one effort on Mark Flekken’s always busy web, alongside additionally failing to register a single correct cross throughout his meagre 28 touches.

Furthermore, Madueke’s chew which has seen him three duels on common this season within the Premier League was notably lacking, with the Blues quantity 11 failing to win a single duel from 4 makes an attempt.

Due to this fact, it wasn’t the best shock to anybody contained in the Bees’ house floor when Maresca substituted him off simply shy of the hour mark, with a low 5/10 ranking additionally coming his manner from the Specific’ Charlie Gordon post-match, who merely acknowledged that he supplied ‘little or no.’

Maresca will seemingly reinstate faces equivalent to Cole Palmer and the aforementioned Jackson for Chelsea’s barrage of video games to come back, with different personnel equivalent to Nkunku and Madueke scared of their beginning spots if this goalless draw is something to go by.