Enzo Maresca slams ‘totally wrong decision’ after Chelsea suffer double injury blow

Enzo Maresca has condemne the ‘completely wrong’ decision for Chelsea to play on transfer deadline day after losing both. Nicolas Jackson and Marc Guiu to injury in the final hours of the January window.

The Blues sealed a 2-1 victory over West Ham United สมัคร UFABET วันนี้ รับเครดิตฟรีสำหรับสมาชิกใหม่ in a game that kicked off just hours before the mid-season transfer window closed on 2 February.

Jackson suffere a hamstring injury in the first-half of the match and while he trie to continue, was force off early in the second period. His replacement Guiu also picke up a knock in the second-half.

Jackson is now expecte to be sideline until April with Guiu also facing a spell out with both strikers struggling with hamstring issues.

It was a busy final day at Stamford Bridge with Joao Felix, Ben Chilwell and Carney Chukwuemeka leaving on loan but the timing of injuries for Jackson and Guiu left the club with no time to bring in replacements.

‘I think it’s completely wrong,’ Maresca said of the scheduling decision, with Chelsea and. West Ham the only Premier League sides in action on deadline day.

‘No [we can’t plan for it] and the reason is that we had two injuries on the deadline. We finished the game at 10pm and the deadline was 11pm. You cannot plan to get injuries to two strikers in the same game.

‘It’s impossible, but it happene and now we need to find solutions because. We didn’t have time to go for a No9.

‘It’s something you cannot plan, in the same game, on the deadline, two strikers both injure. It’s difficult to plan that.’

Christopher Nkunku, who was linke with moves to Bayern Munich and Manchester United last month, would appear best placed to step in for Jackson and lead the Chelsea attack in the coming weeks.

But Maresca has suggeste he will consider other options, insisting the Frenchman ‘is not a nine’.

‘Christo is a solution but not the only solution,’ he said. ‘I said many times I consider Christo a very important player from the start.

Now also with the transfer window close, everyone is here and he can help us until the end. We are working to find a different solution. It can be Christo but also a different kind of player.