I was really disappointed at Chelsea's performance against Crystal Palace, I guess that's because I expected so much from them after how they won the Fifa club world cup and the performance they put during the pre season friendlies.
The issues is not the draw against Crystal Palace, but the performance. They would have lost the game if Crystal Palace had taken their chance in the first half. I also agree that Chelsea does better playing against teams outside of England and struggle with English teams. I would not want to judge them very early, because it's just first match, but Enzo Maresca has a lot to do to improve the performance. The team has potential and I hope they do better in their performances.
It just funny how you just come here and make comments without getting reasons why they barely played how they have been playing in recent games. Let me school you here about how maresca game plan works. First you need to know crystal palace is not a team you can just bruise over, this is a team who beat Manchester city and also Liverpool recently.
Then about maresca game plan, ever since he was appointed as Chelsea manager he had always said his game plan works effectively with his center backs. With Levi colwill and Tosin injured which are the two key players in the center back, chelsea build up attack become very slow because ache pong is just an academy who is growing up and not use to maresca system of play. So when you come to comment about a team make sure you get the reasons why they are playing bad at that time.
And if you think Chelsea is still an underdog in both champions league and premier league then you have underestimate them so much, one thing you need to get clear to yourself. Chelsea didn’t beat PSG and win the CWC as a fluke. They know what they are building, and the earlier most people realize it then the better.