🎙Enzo Maresca's Full Post-Southampton Press Conference:
✅Enzo Maresca: "We said many times that the target for us is to bring this club in the Champions League."
"We are in our worst moment and I said to my players that we are fourth and only one point behind third. That's how well we started the season."
✅Enzo Maresca on Filip Jorgensen getting jeered when kicking short: "My message to Filip was if you play a long ball, I will change you, I am very happy. It is difficult for all the keepers [when that happens] but they just need to follow the plan."
✅Enzo Maresca on the win: "We all needed that. We were in a bad run in term of results. The performance was always there maybe except against Brighton. The club needed that. We are happy."
"In these month and half has been when I have pushed players even more to believe in the process. Since we started, we have almost been in the top four. But now it's normal to go through some bad moments. It's about how we react and how we continue to believe in what we do. The players are fantastic and worked hard every day."
✅Enzo Maresca on Cole Palmer:
“ We said since we start we cannot rely on Cole [Palmer] for every game. He has to continue to work, continue to be happy, continue to laugh they way he does. We are completely happy with him. It is normal to go through a moment where you struggle to score but it doesn't matter. Just continue and you are going to score many goals. It’s completely normal, every top player goes through this, it’s completely normal, you cannot expect Cole Palmer every game to be like last season or the first part of this season, it’s about how he reacts now, he’s calm and still happy”
“Every game is tricky and anything can happen. We have to embrace that and we started the game in the right way. This is the worst game because everyone takes it for granted. It is dangerous. I think the performance was there. Even the last game against Aston Villa the performance was there."
"In some games we have been unlucky and we could have finished it with a clean sheet. The players are happy, this is good. We know that every game is difficult and we're trying to win as many games as we can."
✅Enzo Maresca on Christopher Nkunku: "I am happy with him. But I know he can give more. We expect more from him. But at the same time, we try to understand him. He is not a number nine and not a winger. He played as a winger tonight. He is an attacking midfielder. The problem is that sometimes we need to find the balance."
✅Enzo Maresca on Pedro Neto: "In this moment, we have five, six, seven important injuries. All the clubs when they have this kind of injuries, we are all on the same page. We started the season very good for long period. Then with injuries especially to our box striker, we tried different solutions. We tried with Pedro as a number nine last week. He was good then and tonight as well."
✅Enzo Maresca on youngsters coming off the bench: "Probably, there were too many young players at the end. The Chelsea academy has always been a good one. We have already many players like Levi Colwill and hopefully in the future, we can have more."
✅Enzo Maresca on Tyrique George's chances of playing in the Conference League: "Yes. Especially because we have the Conference League and then Leicester. For us, the priority is to take the club to where it need to be - which is the Champions League."
🗣Pedro Neto analyses his adaptation to Chelsea:
“When I was at Wolves most teams play high block, when I came here most teams played a low block because they saw you can’t press high against us at the start of the season so I am adding to my game dribbling in small spaces, it’s important the combinations against low block”
“I used to run a lot into big spaces and it’s a threat that I still have but the contact on the ball in the box, to be more calm and put the ball in the net is one thing I want to add to my game and I will keep improving on that”
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