Maresca’s wild sprint a red-hot release after Chelsea stifle misfiring Liverpool | Barney Ronay

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This is a game that will perhaps be remembered above all for Enzo’s Run.With 95 minutes on the clock, as Chelsea’s 18-year-old substitute Estêvão Willian scored the winning goal even before the shared intake of air around Stamford Bridge had been transformed into a barrelling roar, Enzo Maresca was off, sprinting down his touchline at astonishing speed, and showing classical form, hands carving the air, knees high, like a small, bald track-suited Allan Wells, then leaping with his players into the crowd.Maresca had been weirdly animated all game, out there in full-figure hugging Galactic Jade club nylons and sculpted puffa coat, bristly, bald, even quite twinkly, like an ageing Jedi on his way to the gym. And by the end a 2-1 defeat here felt like a comprehensive status report on this team, its obvious strengths and its obvious flaws, the fact it seems every week now to be playing both its opponents and the glitches and snags in its own system.Arne Slot’s Liverpool side have lost their past three games in all competitions.

Liverpool had two shots by half-time, none on target. Salah fired wide, weirdly, as he did often here, so blunt in his shooting you half expected to look down and notice he was playing in flippers.Liverpool were better.

He isn’t the problem. But he also isn’t the solution right now.This is not quite a crisis.