Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca has called on fans to keep faith in his leadership, insisting the team is showing real signs of progress despite recent setbacks.The 45-year-old Italian faced jeers from

Chelsea are moving in the right direction and developing a playing style that will help them in the long run, coach Enzo Maresca said on Wednesday in an impassioned defence of his players who were jeered over the weekend.

But the identity that Maresca’s trying to instill — seemingly at the behest of his superiors — is an identity that is very hard to readily engage with as a fan. And when results are not there in the end to justify the means, there’s little reason to expect that engagement to increase (at least not in a positive way).