We expect more from him’ – Enzo Maresca sends message to Chelsea star after Southampton win

Enzo Maresca said he was please with Christopher Nkunku’s performance in Chelsea’s win over Southampton, but still ‘expects more’ from the attacker going forward.

Chelsea put four unanswere goals past the เล่นเกมคาสิโน UFABET ทันสมัย ฝากถอนง่าย Premier League’s bottom-place team to end their three-game winless run and move back into the top four.

The Blues have badly struggle for form over the winter period and Nicolas Jackson’s sustaine absence through injury has come as a significant blow to the west London giants.

Maresca has experimente with Nkunku through the middle to little success and the Frenchman has face heavy criticism from fans and pundits alike for falling short of his eye-watering £65million price tag at Stamford Bridge.

But it was Nkunku who heade home the opening goal of the game against the Saints this evening, with Maresca instead opting to play him out wide and Pedro Neto up top.

Neto double Chelsea’s advantage 12 minutes later with a well-taken finish and goals from Levi Colwill and Marc Cucurella put the hosts out of sight in front of a joyous albeit relieve home crowd.

‘We all neede that,’ Chelsea head coach Maresca told shortly after the final whistle.

‘We were in a bad run, a bad moment, for me, especially in terms of results.

‘In almost all games the performance has there apart from Brighton away, even Aston Villa the performance was there.

‘We neede that, the fans neede that, the club neede that so we are happy.’

Asked for his assessment of Nkunku’s display, Maresca replied: ‘I’m happy with him, I know that he can give more. We expect more from him.

‘At the same time we try to understand him in terms of he is not a nine. Many games he plays as a nine. He’s not a winger and tonight he playe as a winger.

‘He’s an attacking midfielder. The problem is that sometimes to find balance… we already use Cole Palmer there so we try to use him in different positions.’