Enzo Maresca is unhappy that the Premier League has scheduled Chelsea to play the 12:30pm kick-off immediately after the international break for the second successive month.

Chelsea face Burnley at Turf Moor in the early lunchtime match on Saturday and will have to do without Cole Palmer after he fractured a toe in a freak accident .

A number of Blues players jetted across the globe on duty for their national teams, with Moises Caicedo returning back to London late on Thursday night following Ecuador’s 2-0 win over New Zealand in New Jersey in a game that finished at 3:30am GMT on Wednesday.

Chelsea were in the same situation as they faced Nottingham Forest at the City Ground in the same kick-off slot in mid-October. Some South American players including Caicedo did not start th

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