Enzo Maresca has played down the significance of Chelsea’s first-team squad losing to a patched-together Under-21s team during the international break, which saw the manager cancel a day off.
Reports emerged last week that the remaining first-team stars who were not on international duty fell to an embarrassing 3-0 defeat at the hands of a group of youth and academy players, with Donnell McNeilly, 19, scoring twice and Chizzy Ezenwata, 16, adding the third.
