
Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca has walked back on his insistance that the Blues do not have a disciplinary problem, now confessing the players need to learn how to avoid meaningless bookings during games.
After Liam Delap picked up Chelsea’s fifth red card of the season so far in the nervy 4–3 win over Wolverhampton Wanderers in the Carabao Cup fourth round midweek, Maresca abandoned his usually calm demeanour in favour of publicly criticising Delap, brandishing his dismissal as “stupid and embarrassing” as he accused the striker of “playing for himself.”