Paul Merson of Sky Sports says that Chelsea -Baas Enzo Maresca needs his team to beat both Southampton and Leicester to save his job after a recent underwhelming run.
Chelsea gave up a lead in Villa Park when they were beaten 2-1 by Aston Villa on Saturday, a defeat that the blues have now only won two of their last 10 games in the Premier League.
Because of their malaise, she stopped from the top four and also leaves the FA cup after the defeat against Brighton.
Chelsea's FA Cup reverse at the Amex was followed by a 3-0 Premier League that Bonste by the same opponents and it is a bad shape that, according to Merson, has sustained pressure on Maresca, who took over from Mauricio Pochettino last summer. ….
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If they do not win their next two games, the manager will not be there. They play against two of the worst teams to play in the Premier League, because I don't know how long in Southampton and Leicester. So if they don't win those two games, he will do well to keep his job.
Chelsea must come to the Champions League. They need the Champions League to keep players like Cole Palmer, because he wants to play in that competition.
They will have to finish in the top five, otherwise I am afraid of thinking what will happen. I just don't see what the plan is. All seven -year contracts and these players will not get better. How many of them have been a great success?
Bar Palmer, I don't see great successes at Chelsea. Even Palmer has struggled now, Palmer needs Nicolas Jackson and Jackson needs Palmer.
Without the Jackson movement, Palmer gets out of the game. He has no movement for him. People give Jackson Stick, but you can see how good he is now, he is not in the team.
Now they suddenly have nothing in the front, so nobody makes the runs and Palmer has no room. So he gets deeper and deeper. Jackson is a huge miss.
Amorim does not help his players
Ruben Amorim is the problem at Manchester United. The three at the back do not work as he had planned. So change it.
He does not help the players, he helps himself by just keeping it the way he is used to playing all his management career or most of them.
CEO managers are flexible. They go, you know what, I don't really want to play this way, but I have to play to the strong points of the players, and when I can get my players at the end of the season, I will go back to play like I want to play. But at the moment they have to start playing in a different way because they will not really beat Sociedad and play like that.
I also don't think they will move Amorim. They don't have the money to start over. They will have to go with this man. But my concern is that we all know that they cannot play three at the back, we know they are everywhere. They have no feet and legs in midfield. So change it. He keeps sending these players out to fail and that is at the moment what happens every other week.
David Moyes, I got his reappointment at Everton wrong, I didn't think he would do that well. I think he has been great. But he has arrived and played for the strong points of the players, good managers play to the strengths of the players, not on the strengths of the managers.
This man Utd team does not win the Premier League. They need five or six players, so why not just play their strengths, get through this season and then get the players you need?
Rashford Move returns to the Bijt Amorim
Marcus Rashford is a good player, we have seen it over the years. He has a good season, a bad one, but it was just about sorting out his head.
You have a player who probably needed a change of environment. He went either in one of the two ways. He continues the way he was in United or he goes inside and goes, you know what, I'm going to show you.
Amorim hit him badly. He had a 63-year-old goalkeeper coach for him. He comes back to bite the manager.
He is better than what man has utd when he plays as he is. Unai Emery and the landscape helped him enormously. And it seems that he enjoys his football again.
There is a way that Villa plays. We still do not know how Man Utd plays, they are everywhere. With Villa there is a fixed way of playing. He knows how to play. They quickly get the ball towards him and they play with a lot of pace.
Villa gets people in the box. You have a goalscorer in Watkins that comes in the box and Asensio, what a signature that is to get it from PSG. So it helps him. At the moment he is probably playing with better players around him who have more confidence than the players he has at Man Utd.
If Arsenal did not have the injuries, they would still be in the race
They are not far from Liverpool in the long term. Arsenal has enormous injuries. You take them out of three players. I mean, I look at it on Saturday.
You would probably take the front three of West Ham on Saturday about the front three of Arsenal. This week, this Wednesday, you take 100 percent the front three at Forest. They would all go in the Arsenal team this week, this midweek. All and this is where it is. They have bad injuries.
They are not a million miles behind Liverpool. There is hardly anything in it. If you have any injuries, it's just difficult. If they had Saka, Havertz and Martinelli as three in the front, the gap would be a lot shorter than what it is today. There is no way. I was stunned that Merino started at the front again, you have to play sterling. I know that Sterling did not draw any trees.
Liverpool Wili wins the competition, but the gap will close. I'm not sure if Mohamed Salah, Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold are renewing. I don't see it. If they don't sign, that's it. It will be the right level.
So I don't think Arsenal has to do a lot. I think Liverpool should try to do what they should do. I wouldn't worry about Arsenal. Arsenal missed it because they were injured.
Salah is the best player of Premier League ever
Mohamed Salah is just extraordinary in what he does. He is not always involved in the game, but he is currently on another planet. He is absolutely phenomenal.
I think that has usually been the difference. When he pops up and he pops up almost every match, he doesn't have to play incredibly well to do something incredibly good.
Some people are better footballers than players. There would be some who is a better player, but they are not a better football player. Dennis Bergkamp is an incredible football player. He did not set up the figures that Salah has set up.
Salah is a much, much better player than him. But I would not say that he is a much better football player than him.
Salah is the best player who has ever seen the Premier League when he changes on a consistent basis of matches. Nobody did that like him.
But Thierry Henry is the only player I have ever seen in the Premier League who looks like a 20-year-old who plays in a U12S competition. I don't get that with Salah, but if Liverpool wins the Champions League, he wins the Ballon d'Or.
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