Enzo Maresca reveals the Chelsea players he cannot bench

Joao Felix Cole Palmer
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Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca has two groups of players – his core eleven and a B eleven.

Enzo Maresca’s core eleven starts in the Premier League games and are rested for Cup games, while the second eleven start in the Cup games.

Enzo Maresca has however refuted the idea that he has a set of indispensable players. According to the Italian, there’s no Chelsea player he cannot bench.

“I like to say there are players that are fantastic, but for me we don’t have indispensable players,” said Enzo Maresca.

“If Cole (Palmer) is not playing for any reason, we play Joao (Felix). If Nico (Nicolas Jackson) is not playing, we play Christo (Christopher Nkunku). There is not one that we cannot change.

“The reason we change players is because we think that all of them are good. Some of them are better than the rest, but it doesn’t mean they are always the ones that are going to play.”