{"id":41215,"date":"2025-09-27T15:11:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T19:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/chelsea-double-red-card-and-gifts-to-brighton-maresca-frustrated\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T15:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T19:11:12","slug":"chelsea-double-red-card-and-gifts-to-brighton-maresca-frustrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/chelsea-double-red-card-and-gifts-to-brighton-maresca-frustrated\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea: Double Red Card and Gifts to Brighton, Maresca Frustrated"},"content":{"rendered":"Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca urged his team to stop &#8220;gifting matches&#8221; after suffering a second red card in as many games, resulting in a 3-1 defeat to Brighton in the Premier League at Stamford Bridge.\n\nChelsea took the lead thanks to Enzo Fern\u00e1ndez&#8217;s goal in the first half, but Trevoh Chalobah&#8217;s expulsion for a harsh tackle on Diego G\u00f3mez changed the course of the match.\n\nMaxim De Cuyper&#8217;s header put Brighton ahead in added time, surprising the home team. Danny Welbeck added a third goal, sealing Brighton&#8217;s victory.\n\nMaresca, after the match, regretted his team&#8217;s mistakes.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The message in the locker room was clear. Against any team in the Premier League you can&#8217;t keep giving away matches. We are giving away matches. The red card is a big mistake because the game changed completely.<\/p><cite>Enzo Maresca<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nChelsea started the match promisingly, and Fern\u00e1ndez&#8217;s goal seemed deserved. However, Chalobah&#8217;s expulsion altered the development of the game.\n\nBrighton&#8217;s coach, Fabian H\u00fcrzeler, highlighted his team&#8217;s ability to recover and achieve victory.\n\nChelsea&#8217;s match was marked by an inability to adapt to changing circumstances, something that had already cost them the previous week.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0927%2Fr1551966_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\nTrevoh Chalobah, sent off in the match.\n\nChelsea were outplayed by Brighton&#8217;s reaction, who took their chances to take the victory.\n\nMaresca emphasized the need to avoid mistakes that change the course of matches, referring to the red cards suffered in the last matches.\n\nH\u00fcrzeler, for his part, highlighted his team&#8217;s resilience.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>They dominated until the goal. After that, we were much better in possession. After the goal, I had very good feelings.<\/p><cite>Fabian H\u00fcrzeler<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThe Brighton coach also commented on the importance of remaining calm and focused, even with a numerical advantage.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca urged his team to stop &#8220;gifting matches&#8221; after suffering a second red card in as many games, resulting in a 3-1 defeat to Brighton in the Premier League at Stamford Bridge. Chelsea took the lead thanks to Enzo Fern\u00e1ndez&#8217;s goal in the first half, but Trevoh Chalobah&#8217;s expulsion for a harsh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[5205,220,139,1369],"class_list":{"0":"post-41215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-soccer","7":"tag-brighton","8":"tag-chelsea","9":"tag-premier-league","10":"tag-red-card"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}