Despite a promising start to life as Chelsea manager, Enzo Maresca now has a number of problems to solve at Stamford Bridge.
The Blues are without a win in their last five Premier League games, and have fallen from genuine title contenders to needing a win tonight to regain their place in the top four.
Chelsea have a chance to do this tonight with a home game against Wolves, although they could be without some key players as Cole Palmer and Enzo Fernandez are injury doubts.
Enzo Maresca concerned at Chelsea’s lack of goals from set-pieces
Goals have dried up of late for the Blues outside of the brilliant Palmer, and they need to find other avenues to find the net when sides are predictably trying harder to stop him.
One area that Chelsea have not been able to exploit this season is set pieces, despite spending big money to poach coach Bernardo Cueva from Brentford.
The Blues have won 131 corners this season in the Premier League, however have only found the net directly from three of them.
According to Mail Plus, Maresca has been informed of their set-piece woes, and has made it clear that he believes it is an area they can improve on as they progress through this season.
The Blues are preparing to take on comfortably the worst side in the league at defending set pieces in the form of Wolves. They have conceded 17 goals from these scenarios this season.
Why do Chelsea struggle from scoring from set pieces?
When taking into account what seemed Maresca’s preferrable starting line-up, the centre-backs named in the side are Levi Colwill and Wesley Fofana.
Neither offer a particular goal threat, and looking at those who can’t make the starting side would perhaps provide a more likely avenue of scoring.
Both Tosin Adarabioyo and Axel Disasi have found the net for set pieces from Chelsea in various competitions this season, and offer a lot more height to aim for for either Fernandez or Palmer putting in dangerous deliveries.
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