Twenty years ago, José Mourinho famously hid in a laundry basket to skirt around his touchline ban. Maresca didn’t have to resort to any such shenanigans, but he did get stuck with some rather poor seats, squeezed in under the rafters behind the press box. Watching the game from there was a “disaster”; thankfully the result was far from one.

Enzo Fernandez has improved enormously this season for Chelsea with the midfielder close to his goals tally for the whole of last term and far ahead in the assist department

Lavia played 67 minutes at the base of Maresca’s midfield at Stamford Bridge in his first Chelsea start since January.