Enzo Maresca gave his thoughts on a nervy 4-3 win against **Wolves**for Chelsea.
The Blues earned a 3-0 lead in the first half with strikes from Andrey Santos, Tyrique George, and Estevao. However, they conceded a needless transition that allowed **Tolu Arokodare**before **David Moller Wolfe**profited from a badly defended long throw-in and netted off a goalmouth scramble. Jamie Gittens had briefly given some breathing room, but the match management was worrying.
To top it off, Liam Delap picked up two yellow cards within minutes of his introduction off the bench for careless wrestling with the **Wolves**defenders. The team’s ill-discipline is getting out of hand.
“Very happy first-half, very upset second-half. This is the analysis and my personal view of the game. I think first-half we were very, very good. It's always complicated to go away and score three goals.
“We were playing nice forward, great chances. We didn't concede nothing and second half we were not doing the right things. Probably the first goal we conceded opened a little bit the game, gave them the boost, the energy to come back in the game. Then the three goals we conceded, I think all of them we can avoid and for sure today also we had a very stupid red card that is completely unnecessary.
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“[The red card] was a stupid foul, we can avoid that. I completely understand when there are red cards like Brighton or Man United that is difficult, but red card against Nottingham Forest and red card today, both we can avoid that. And we have to avoid that.
“Yes, it's embarrassing when it's a red card like today. Because it's two yellow cards in five minutes, 10 minutes, I don't know, seven minutes. Both I think we can avoid that. So it's not good.
“After the yellow card I told him four or five times to keep calm. But Liam is a player that when he's on the pitch he'll be playing the game for himself and he struggles to realise and to listen around him.
“It was complicated for the ones that come on, it's too hard to adjust that. But first-half, 0-3, again the game was completely under control. Then we conceded the first goal and then we panicked a bit. It is part of the journey of this team, this squad, that needs to grow, to make experience to get better.”