The Blues are second in the Premier League table behind Liverpool – who dropped points at Newcastle – and Chelsea fans on the south coast regaled their players with chants of ‘we’ve got our Chelsea back’.
But Maresca criticised Noni Madueke for complacency and revealed that he had been dropped for the weekend win over Aston Villa because of the way he trained.
He returned at Southampton as Maresca made seven changes but Maresca had a warning for the winger who scored his first goal since early October.
He said: “Noni can do much more. He can do much more. The moment he starts to score or assist and is happy, he starts to drop a little bit and the reason why he was not playing is because I do not like the way he trained.
“He has to understand that he has to train every day good. He has to be ambitious. He scored one tonight, he has to go for the second one and the third one. He has to give more assists.
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