Enzo Maresca said he will review Chelsea’s disciplinary problem in the summer after being awarded the most yellow cards so far this season.
The Blues have received 96 yellow cards in the Premier League which puts them in top spot, with the other top five clubs all on at least 25 fewer bookings than Maresca’s men.
Nicolas Jackson’s red card for a forearm to the face of Sven Botman in Chelsea’s 2-0 defeat to Newcastle last weekend earned him an automatic three-game ban.
It means he will miss the visit of Manchester United on Friday and trip to Nottingham Forest on the final day as Chelsea wrestle for a top-five finish to secure Champions League football next season.
Maresca said: ‘Against Newcastle that was our first red card of the season. If we had a lot of yellows I don’t know to be honest.
‘It’s probably also the way we try to be, I intense, aggressive. It’s a good question that probably we need to analyse during the summer when we have some day off and to see if there is something that we can do better.’
Enzo Maresca says he will address Nicolas Jackson and Chelsea’s discipline in the summer
Jackson was shown a red card against Newcastle after a forearm to the face of Sven Botman
He has warned players that repeating mistakes is ‘not the best thing, but making them initially is ok’
On Jackson’s red card, he added: ‘Nico is intelligent enough to recognise that there has been an error, a mistake.
‘For me it’s not about the age because no matter the age you are, if you make a mistake it’s OK as all of us make mistakes, but if you make the same mistake again probably it’s not the best thing.’
