Chelsea's high-line 'a bad habit from previous managers' - Maresca - video Dailymotion

Enzo Maresca blames the previous regime under Mauricio Pochettino for Chelsea's defensive issues.

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00:00It's a problem that we are trying to solve from the pre-season since day one.

00:08One of my first meetings with the players, with the squad, was the amount of

00:13goal that we conceded last year with a defensive line very high.

00:18It's something that we are trying to work and today I think offensively once

00:26again the team is there because the patterns they are there will create

00:31chances. The problem has been defensively, when I say defensively, it's not just

00:36the defensive line, it's in general, all the players. It's a habit, it's a habit.

00:42We are not working on defensive lines so high. It's a habit that, I don't know,

00:48it's from last year or from years ago, I don't know, but we are trying to drop

00:54a little bit the defensive line, no more than four or five metres, just to have some

00:58advantage, don't concede the ball in behind. But as I said, last year we

01:03already conceded many goals with this problem and hopefully we can

01:07solve it very soon.