{"id":237510,"date":"2025-10-20T01:29:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T01:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/237510\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T01:29:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T01:29:18","slug":"enzo-maresca-offers-defiant-response-to-chelseas-red-card-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/237510\/","title":{"rendered":"Enzo Maresca Offers Defiant Response to Chelsea\u2019s Red Card Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_nodqigob8\">Chelsea\u2019s 3\u20130 victory over Nottingham Forest was marred by the Blues\u2019 fifth red card in their last six matches, but Enzo Maresca is \u201cnot concerned\u201d by his club\u2019s disciplinary issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_38qdkwrca\">Malo Gusto became the latest <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/soccer\/team\/chelsea\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chelsea <\/a>representative to see red this season when the midfielder committed a wild tackle on Neco Williams in the dying moments of <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/soccer\/chelsea-player-ratings-vs-nottingham-forest-10-18-25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday\u2019s clash<\/a> at the City Ground. The Frenchman was shown his second yellow card of the afternoon and sent packing in the 87th minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_ikhxt4wj0\">The red card makes it four in four games for Chelsea. Yet Maresca is not sounding any alarm bells. <\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_1unl5ldc9\">\u201cAgain, it\u2019s something that we can do better, but I\u2019m not concerned,\u201d the Italian manager said after the Blues\u2019 latest win. \u201cSome of you might say, why is he not concerned? I\u2019m not concerned, because I like to analyse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_oicz02jsj\">Maresca\u2019s comments echo his previous sentiments shared ahead of the October international break, where he admitted each sending off must be \u201canalysed case by case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"base_1emrqjj-o_O-initial_fzbddc-o_O-style_1a1csmw\" alt=\"Enzo Maresca\" title=\"Enzo Maresca\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Enzo Maresca (center) will return to the touchline for Chelsea against Ajax. \/ Robin Jones\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_nf0w9tanh\">Maresca himself is part of Chelsea\u2019s unwanted red card-streak. The 45-year-old was sent off for his celebrations against <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/soccer\/team\/liverpool\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool <\/a>after <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/soccer\/chelsea-player-ratings-vs-liverpool-estevao-seals-stoppage-time-victory\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Est\u00eav\u00e3o\u2019s last-gasp winner<\/a> at Stamford Bridge. <\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_r8rdd4dkx\">Before that, Jo\u00e3o Pedro received a second yellow for a high boot <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/soccer\/chelsea-player-ratings-vs-benfica-9-30-25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">against Benfica<\/a> and Trevoh Chalobah was sent packing for the <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/soccer\/chelsea-player-ratings-vs-brighton-premier-league-9-27-25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">denial of a goalscoring opportunity<\/a> against <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/soccer\/team\/brighton-hove-albion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brighton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_tcu6jyjax\">Robert S\u00e1nchez was also <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/soccer\/robert-sanchez-makes-unwanted-chelsea-history-red-card-vs-man-utd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dismissed just five minutes<\/a> into the Blues\u2019 clash with <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/soccer\/team\/manchester-united\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester United<\/a> for a poor last-man challenge on Bryan Mbeumo. In their last six matches, Maresca\u2019s side only managed to avoid a red card in their 2\u20131 victory over Lincoln City in the Carabao Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_5hoeslamp\">Maresca, though, sees difficulty in lumping all the bookings together. <\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_rb0s5i41o\">\u201cWhen it\u2019s a red card for bad intention or for bad discipline, it is different compared to the Manchester United red card or Brighton red card,\u201d the manager said after Pedro was sent off in the <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/soccer\/champions-league\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Champions League<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_lmmffl4rl\">\u201cIn that case, it\u2019s just the decision that you have to take in two seconds, three seconds. Do I do foul or not? It is difficult. So we analyse case for case. Even if we concede [a total of] four red cards, it is not something normal because, again, it is for different reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ THE LATEST CHELSEA NEWS, TRANSFER RUMOURS AND MORE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea\u2019s 3\u20130 victory over Nottingham Forest was marred by the Blues\u2019 fifth red card in their last six&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-237510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}