“I have been proven wrong” – Carragher admits he messed up this Chelsea prediction | OneFootball

With the Premier League season now 25% completed and an international break on our hands, it’s proving a good moment for many pundits to take a broader look at their predictions for the campaign and how they’re getting on.

Jamie Carragher was on the Stick to Football podcast, and he had a whole long section about Chelsea and how he had got us “wrong” this season. Like most people (including us) Carragher was unsure about the change of manager and scared by the preseason results and the lack of convincing summer signings.

But Enzo Maresca has made things work with the players who were already there, and has his team far ahead of where he expected, where Carragher expected, or where we expected.

“I think the manager has done a brilliant job and to be honest I have been proven wrong a bit with Chelsea this season, I didn’t see this,” Carragher explained.

“I thought it would be chopping and changing of players, and there was talk about leaving players out at the start of the season, but you go to a Chelsea game and you almost know what the team is. I thought that would be a problem, having so many players egos and people causing trouble on the training pitch, but that doesn’t seem to have happened, so fair play to the manager.”

Chelsea in a team huddle ahead of EFL Cup game. (Photo by Ed Sykes/Getty Images)

Maresca just needs to keep team pointing in right direction

Without doubt, the way that Maresca instantly worked out his best XI and stuck with it has been seen as one of the big bright spots from the season, and is something he’s getting praised for pretty widely. Carragher isn’t the first to mention it.

Things will grow more challenging now the likes of Christopher Nkunku and Joao Felix are pushing to play, but as long as the results stay positive, they don’t have much leverage.