It was meant to be a routine match, but Chelsea’s encounter with Ipswich Town ended up sparking a debate that reached the Sky Sports studios. And at the heart of it all? Enzo Maresca’s tactical decisions and how the Stamford Bridge crowd reacted to them.

Pundit Jamie Carragher didn’t hold back in his post-match analysis, calling out the Chelsea boss for letting fan pressure influence his decision-making from the touchline.

“Maresca, down here – the manager, he’s instructing Palmer to get higher up and keep an eye on the goalkeeper but just listen to the noise from the crowd (boos),” Carragher noted during his analysis, pointing out the very moment Maresca’s instructions clashed with the Stamford Bridge faithful’s frustration.

“That’s because they don’t want them to play out from the back,” Carragher continued. “You can see the goalkeeper urging everybody up and at one stage, telling the crowd to calm down. So he’s been influenced by the crowd so he’s said, ‘push up’ and that’s when there’s the chant from the crowd, ‘attack, attack, attack’.”

It’s not often you hear a top-flight manager accused of bowing to crowd pressure, but Carragher believes that’s exactly what happened. Instead of sticking with his philosophy of building from the back, Maresca told his team to go long – a decision that backfired.

Carragher highlighted the tactical error in detail: “But what Maresca is talking about is that this is not a team who are not used to going direct, the first thing the goalkeeper does is put it on the head of Burgess, the best headerer of the ball in their defence – so that’s a mistake.”

Do you agree with Jamie Carragher’s take?