Nicolas Jackson may have brought the death knell down on his own career at Chelsea after getting himself sent off in Friday’s defeat to Flamengo at the Club World Cup. A nightmare six-minute

Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca has said Nicolas Jackson is in a "bad moment" after picking up his second red card in four matches as the Blues lost 3-1 to Flamengo at the Club World Cup.

It is very difficult to defend Nicolas Jackson, but that did not stop Enzo Maresca trying. Deep in the bowels of Lincoln Financial Field, in the repurposed locker room of the Philadelphia Eagles, Maresca picked the most surprising answer possible when invited to talk about Jackson’s latest moment of self-destructive madness: a studs-up tackle to the ankle of Flamengo defender Ayrton Lucas near the touchline that drew an immediate red card from referee Ivan Arcides Barton Cisneros,