Maresca urges his Chelsea players to ignore external noise

Enzo Maresca has told his Chelsea players to continue to shut out external noise after they secured a second Premier League win of the season with a 1-0 victory at Bournemouth. The Blues have remained in the headlines during the September international break after reports emerged of a rift between co-owners Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali. It is the latest off-field problem for Maresca to handle after he fielded various questions over the future of several players during a busy summer of transfer activity.

A hard-fought victory at Bournemouth moved Chelsea on to seven points out of a possible 12 but Maresca has warned the squad to ignore the pitfalls of reading social media. “I said the other day in the press conference, it (results) is the only thing that we can control so we try to do our best,” Maresca explained. “The players, they try to do their best on the pitch for sure because (the) social network…they can read and see things, but I told them it is not something we can do. “We just try to prepare our games in the best way and the most important thing that we can learn is in this type of game, you need something different and not only the tactical part. “You need something inside, you need to win duels and all the games are different. Probably the Palace game we deserve to win, but it is football, we didn’t win. “We were more or less there (at Bournemouth) and in the end we win. The important thing is we continue to build something important and understand things.”

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