The Blues are without a victory in four games, but on another day each could have ended with us taking the three points.

It is clear to our head coach the players are not panicking, and are instead using this period to fuel their determination to help us get back to winning ways, starting with tomorrow’s FA Cup tie against Morecambe.

‘The reaction is not weird or strange,’ Maresca stated at his media conference ahead of the game. ‘The reaction is a good one.

‘Even in the last game against Palace that we drew, the mood was not the best in the changing room at the final whistle because they have the desire to win all the games. This is something very good.’

While the sequence has slowed the impressive momentum the Blues had built up in the first half of the campaign, Maresca says it has not caught anyone by surprise internally, highlighting that sustaining such high levels over the course of an entire campaign with a young and developing team was always unlikely.

‘Probably, as we were in a moment of the season second and close to first, people thought that we were not going to have this kind of moment. But it’s not real,' Maresca explained.

‘At this moment, the only team since the start of the season that is winning nearly every game is Liverpool. Otherwise, every team has had moments where they have struggled with the results, but it’s part of the season.'

‘You also have to analyse the games, and in the last game against Palace the team was very good,’ added Maresca.

‘It’s a matter of a moment and hopefully we can win the game soon and come back with three points.’