Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca believes Noni Madueke has vital room for improvement and should “work more” with a view to realise his potential. Winger Madueke performed a key function in Wednesday’s 5-1 demolition of backside membership Southampton, scoring his facet’s third objective after organising the second for Christopher Nkunku. The England worldwide, who started the Premier League season with a hat-trick in a 6-2 win at Wolves, additionally did not capitalise on a variety of additional alternatives at St Mary’s. Chelsea climbed to second within the desk – above Arsenal on objective distinction – by stretching their unbeaten run to 6 top-flight video games, seven factors behind leaders Liverpool. “With Noni, he can do much more,” mentioned head coach Maresca. “In the moment he starts to score or assist and is happy, he starts to drop a little bit and the reason why he was not playing is because I do not like the way he trained. “He has to understand that he has to train every day good. He has to be ambitious. He scored one , he has to go for the second one, for the third one. He has to give more assists. “But overall, he is doing great, he is doing fantastic. He is doing even better in terms of numbers, assists and goals. “Noni has to understand he has to work more because he can be much, much, much better.” A 3rd of Madueke’s 48 league appearances since his arrival from PSV Eindhoven in January 2023 have come from the bench. The 22-year-old has began 12 of Chelsea’s 14 league matches this season, contributing 5 objectives and two assists, however faces fierce competitors from Pedro Neto. “There are players in behind that are ready,” mentioned Maresca. “We have four wingers that are all very good. “Pedro and Noni for the right side, Jadon and Misha for the left side and in the moment one of them drops for whatever reason, there is one in behind that is ready. “Noni is not allowed to drop because Pedro is there and doing fantastic. If Pedro drops then Noni is there. “This is what they have to understand if we want to be there or be close for something important.” Axel Disasi and Cole Palmer had been additionally goal for Chelsea earlier than substitute Sancho sealed a thumping south-coast success along with his first objective for the membership. Southampton started brightly and briefly levelled via Joe Aribo however contributed to their very own downfall with a string of errors, together with captain Jack Stephens being despatched off within the thirty ninth minute for pulling Marc Cucurella’s hair. Saints’ eleventh lack of a dismal season left them seven factors from security and adopted being denied victory at Brighton by a controversial offside resolution. Supervisor Russell Martin, who was with out Taylor Harwood-Bellis, Flynn Downes and Tyler Dibling on account of suspension, along with some harm absences, mentioned: “I don’t like being unlucky or lucky. “I think we’ve been unfortunate with some recent calls and stuff like that. “Subjectively and objectively we should have more points on the board, so that’s been really frustrating. But we have to just keep working and keep using the frustration. “We have to be realistic and put it in perspective. We played against one of the best teams in the country at the moment, with some top attacking talent, with 10 men for an hour. “But they see a team that is absolutely together and fighting so hard.”
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