Enzo Maresca rejected the concern about the form of Cole Palmer and said it was up to the other players to dig Chelsea out of their current malaise.
The side of Maresca went to the seventh slid in the Premier League after three defeats in their last four games, the last Saturday in Aston Villa.
This season Palmer has been a creative force for Chelsea with 14 goals and six assists in 26 performances, but did not score in five trips with his decline reflects those of his team.
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Chelsea will play host for Rock-Bottom Southampton tomorrow night and offers both club and player the opportunity to get back on the right track.
“The problem with Cole is that we trust Cole for everything and I said since we started that we should trust the team. We need top players such as Cole, but we don’t worry about him at all. “
Asked what Palmer should do to return at his best, the Italian added: “He must continue with the way he works. He recently had a big chance, but in general the performance of him – as I said, every game we expect a goal or help him, so it’s hard.
“He is a human. At the moment, performances are likely to reflect the team performance that we have trouble scoring goals, so we have to be a bit more clinical if we get the opportunities. “
On paper, a game with the saints seems perfect for Chelsea, but Maresca is wary in front of Ivan Juric, despite the fact that they have only claimed nine points throughout the season.
He said: “I trust games like these, they can be difficult games. If you look away the game against Manchester United, they won 1-0 to the last five minutes. It is a difficult one and from now on each game will play every team For something, so they will all be difficult.
“Our duty is to prepare every game to win. From now on we still have 12 games to go and there is no doubt that all 12 must win for us. “
Jorgensen still the number one
Maresca stays with Filip Jorgensen in the goal despite his precious mistake in Villa Park, but will be Trevoh Chalobah without defender, who hoped after just eight minutes.
“He had a check yesterday and he will be about a week to 10 days,” said Maresca of Chalobah.
“On the one hand it is good because it is not an important injury, but on the other hand it is a shame because we are currently losing another player with the amount of injuries we had.”
Chelsea is wounded without a recognized Center-Forward with both Nicolas Jackson and Marc Guiu.
