Enzo Maresca has lost a few old friends at Leicester but it hardly matters when the Italian is making new ones at Chelsea. They remained in the top four after cruising to victory at a despondent King Power Stadium thanks to goals from Nicolas Jackson and Enzo Fernández.
This was a mismatch from the start, the sense that the points would be heading back to London constant even when Jordan Ayew halved the deficit with a penalty deep into stoppage time, and the only frustration for Maresca was the failure to win more emphatically. A clean sheet slipped from Chelsea’s grasp for the seventh consecutive league game and, for a side hoping to be a regular presence at the top, more ruthlessness would be welcome.
