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Maresca on Chelsea's 6 - 2 Wolves win  25/08/2024  Molineux Stadium, Wolverhampton, U.K.

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00:00What did you say to your players at halftime?

00:25I just said, in a delicate way, that we need to be a little bit more accurate.

00:31I think in the first half, we started the first 10-15 minutes very good.

00:35We scored a goal and we had two, three more chances, clear chances with Noni.

00:40Then we started to lose easy ball.

00:43When you lose easy ball, you concede a counter-attacker, you concede set-pieces, you lose confidence.

00:50This already happened the other day against Servette, that we lose easy ball.

00:56I just said that to play in the way we want to play, we need to be a little bit more accurate.

01:02We can lose the ball if the opposite, they press us very intense, but we cannot lose

01:07the ball just giving away for wrong decision.

01:12So I think the difference between first half and second half was just about being a bit

01:18more accurate.

01:19Noni, by the way, you can probably tell he annoyed a few Wolves fans with what he said

01:26on social media overnight, but were you happy with how he responded and dealt with being

01:31targeted with boos?

01:35To be honest, I didn't know, they just mentioned me now, but I didn't know before the game

01:39about Noni's social post.

01:46I can judge Noni's performance, that has been fantastic, not only second half, even

01:51first half.

01:52As I said, the first 15 minutes, he was always 1v1 creating something.

01:58Since day one, I said that he's the kind of winger that I really like, he's working very

02:02good with us, but the best thing for me today from Noni was not the hat-trick, was the way

02:07he defended 90 minutes, a counter-attacker there, and that showed the right mentality

02:13that I'm demanding from the players.

02:18Was for Noni, was for Cristian Cunco, that he played five minutes and was pressing everyone,

02:22Joao Felix did the same, so if we want to build something important, I think first of

02:27all you need the right mentality, and from all of them it was very good.

02:31Will you have to remind your players to not put stupid stuff on social media, will you

02:44have to have a conversation, just to remind your players to be careful?

02:52I'm a kind of person that I like trust people, and thinking that people they are mature enough

03:00to know what is correct and what is not correct.

03:04So in this case I think Noni is mature enough to understand that if what he did was correct

03:12or not correct.

03:13Is there a better young player in the Premier League when he's on form like that?

03:30You know I know Cole from already four or five years, I had him one entire season at

03:35City with the second team, then with the first team, so I know him very good.

03:41He's a special player, he's a special guy, a special person, and I'm not surprised at

03:47all about the goal he scored last year, the goal he scored today, the assist, because

03:52Cole is a top player.

03:54Can I just check on Romeo Lavia as well?

03:58Yeah, Romeo had an arm string problem in rotation, we'll see hopefully it's not long, but these

04:05kind of things at the end always require some days, a week, we'll see.

04:11What do you think this win today will do for your team's confidence?

04:16It's always good to win games, I think we already won one game the other day in the

04:23Conference League so they are two in a row, hopefully we can build some momentum from

04:28there to continue to improve.

04:30But I said many times that for us the target in this moment is to see the way we improve,

04:38to improve players.

04:39They are just asking me now about different things but I said that no-one from the club

04:44asked me to compete for the Premier League or to compete for a Champions League spot,

04:50they just asked me to improve the players, to improve the team, and also I think in this

04:55moment the target is a little bit to solve the economic problem in terms of the reason

05:02why we need to sell players and we need to do some things.

05:05So the main target in this moment is that we solve these kinds of problems and then

05:10from there we try to do our best and we see where we arrive.

05:14What was the thinking behind taking Madrid off?

05:20Say again, sorry.

05:22Because I was not happy.

05:26Because I think we can, in some moment we can manage better some situation.

05:32He was working very good off the ball, very hard, and I think that was very good.

05:36And then in terms of on the ball, I just expect a bit more quality from Misha.

05:44But he did, for me, he had some good moment the other day, he had some good moment today

05:49and the reason why was just to change and give Pedro some minutes.

05:55Before Col Favre's goal, Sanchez's pass, as soon as the goal was scored, a lot of players

06:03who were close to Sanchez, you know, mobbed him and celebrated.

06:07I know you talked about what you want in terms of distribution from the goalkeeper, so how

06:11pleasing was that?

06:13No, no.

06:14But I said many times, we start less, one month and a half ago, but I said many times

06:23when there is space in behind, we need to attack in behind.

06:27Like they were all in our side, so we try to attack in behind.

06:31But when they sit back, it's difficult because there is no space in behind.

06:34So we need more passes, more process.

06:38But as I said, we are in a moment where we start less than two months ago, there are

06:43many things that the players are still learning.

06:46Sometimes we can play quicker, sometimes we can play slowly, but this is just with timing

06:50that we're going to improve.

06:53You said a little bit earlier about the club not giving you expectations of what to achieve.

06:58What is it that you actually want to achieve this season with the players, other than just

07:03general improvement?

07:04I want to see my team playing the way we want to play, compete every game, that this is

07:10the most important thing.

07:11A team that on the ball has a clear idea of what they want, off the ball a very aggressive

07:17team.

07:18I think today for some moment we start to see our team, in terms of we were pressing.

07:25In terms of squad, try to improve the players, I feel very lucky, I feel very happy.

07:30I said since day one that I think the squad is very good.

07:35And I feel lucky because there are many players that are versatile, they can play in different

07:39positions.

07:40That is something that I really like.

07:44Then we see where we arrive, but the most important thing is to try to be better game

07:49after game.

07:50Is it lucky that the club don't ask you to win the Champions League or get a Champions

07:56League position?

07:57No, I feel lucky because of the squad, because of the players.

08:04I don't feel lucky because the club didn't ask me to win the Premier League or to compete

08:09for the Champions League spot.

08:11Also because I think that if you think about us, about a team that three years ago won

08:18the Champions League, okay.

08:19But also you have to think that in the last two years we finished 12th, we finished 6th,

08:23so now suddenly we want to win the Premier League or compete for the Champions League

08:27spot.

08:28That is not reality.

08:29So I think we can build something important through the time, month, year and we can arrive

08:35again to compete for that competition.

08:38So that was the expectation, the margin between winning the league and where you finished

08:43was so large that it was impossible to feel like that?

08:48I think you need the process, it's not that you can suddenly start to compete with this

08:53kind of team.

08:54I said that they are always there, I said many times.

08:57I think for me the difference between us and Arsenal and City in this moment is that City

09:03is working with the same manager eight, nine years, Arsenal is working with the same manager

09:07four, five years and Chelsea is working with the same manager less than two months.

09:11So this is the big difference for me between us and them in this moment.

Maresca on Chelsea's 6 - 2 Wolves win

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