Chelsea’s manager, Enzo Maresca, has warned Nicolas Jackson that his red card in Newcastle United must serve as a great learning curve for the striker.
Blues were 1-0 down and fought to get a foot in a Very significant contest in St James Park When Jackson fell a forearm on Sven Botman’s face. Referee John Brooks initially showed a yellow card to the Senegalese International, but the VAR received the instruction to consult with the monitor and finally. chose to send Jackson.
Jackson’s poor discipline attracted significant criticism from fans and puncies, and Maresca, who did not recognize the striker when he stepped on the tunnel, warned that the changes must be made soon.
“Without a doubt, 100%, Nico has to learn,” Maresca said after the game. “It will now be suspended for the rest of the season and must learn for the future.”
Jackson, who received a straight red card for the first time since March 2022, will miss the last two Chelsea games of the Premier League season, as they aim to achieve an end to the top five places and play in the champion league next season. Sunday’s defeat could prove expensive, but Nottingham Forest 2-2 draw with Leicester meant that the Blues ended the fifth weekend.
“This season is over for him and he is our 9, our striker. We will have to find a different solution for the last two games. We have to avoid this kind of thing because we need our entire available squad,” added Maresca, who was also without Christopher Nkunku and Marc Guiu.
Chelsea It certainly worked better with ten men than with 11 in Tyneside, but the Italian insisted that Jackson’s dismissal was influential in deciding the result. Bruno Guimaraes sealed Newcastle’s nervous victory With a strike diverted from a late distance.
“Surely the red card affected the game,” he said. “Against this team, in this stage, it is already complicated and, if you give them an additional player, it is difficult, but in general I think, especially in the second half, we have created great possibilities even with ten players when it is not easy.
“If the referee decides a red card, it is a red card, but in some different decisions in this stage, it is sometimes the noise (which) decides whether it is a free kick or not.”
The Blues are at the level of points with Aston Villa in fifth and a point ahead of the seventh place forest. On the last day, the land of the city will undoubtedly decisive in what has been a very competitive race Champions league Football.
