BREAKING Liam Delap hands Chelsea big Tottenham suspension headache after shock red card

Liam Delap's injury return from Chelsea ended in disastrous fashion as he was shown a red card after coming off the bench. The summer signing has missed the last six weeks with a hamstring injury, but returned against Wolves in the Carabao Cup fourth round only to be shown two yellow cards in the space of seven minutes on his return.

A pull-back on Yerson Mosquera was the reason for his first caution with another yellow coming soon after. As a result, he will be suspended for this weekend's Premier League clash against Tottenham.

Maresca was asked about potentially winning the Carabao Cup during his Tuesday press conference with the Chelsea boss making his feelings clear.

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"Yeah, absolutely," he said when asked if the deeper Chelsea go in the competition the more hungry they are to win it.

"As you said, it's three games away from the final. So we need to have the desire to play for that. As we said many times, we need to go game by game.

"Now the first one is Wolves tomorrow. We need to be focused on that. And then hopefully winning the game we can think about the next one."

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