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Enzo Maresca previews Chelsea's cup trip to Newcastle
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29/10/2024
Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca previews Chelsea's cup trip to Newcastle
29/10/2024
Chelsea Training Ground, Cobham, UK
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00:00
Jürgen, do you want to get us started?
00:02
How are you?
00:04
I'm good, thank you. I just wanted to start off on the team,
00:07
you've been a big change over the last couple of days.
00:10
No, not any injury.
00:13
So everything is fine.
00:15
That's good to hear.
00:17
I wanted to ask around Jadon Fanshawe,
00:19
he's obviously not played, maybe not been able to bench one of the last two fixtures.
00:23
Do you think this game could be an opportunity for him?
00:26
And I guess how do you see his future at the club?
00:29
It seemed like he was in great contention for choice when he first started
00:33
and he may have fallen out of choice in the last couple of games.
00:36
Yeah, Jadon is doing well since he arrived with us.
00:40
For sure players, they cannot maintain the same level for all season
00:46
because the amount of the games is huge.
00:50
So the last two games he didn't play, not for any different reason,
00:55
just for technical decisions, tactical decisions.
00:58
No more than that.
01:00
For sure, because of the amount of games, he's going to play many games
01:05
and the only thing he has to do is continue to work hard
01:08
and when we give him a chance, just to take it.
01:11
Lovely.
01:13
We spoke a lot about Cole Palmer over the last couple of days.
01:16
His past during that game has been quite viral on the internet.
01:21
I just want to ask around, just him as a player at the club,
01:24
the influence he has amongst the team
01:26
and how pleased you are with his progress so far this season?
01:30
Very pleased, especially because I can see him enjoying.
01:34
I always said that for the players it's the most important thing
01:38
that they can enjoy playing football.
01:42
So this is the first thing and then you can see that this continues to improve
01:48
no matter in which position he's playing.
01:51
The other day he was playing in a different position,
01:54
in a different part of the pitch, but he did fantastic.
01:58
So again, more or less it's similar to Jadon.
02:03
They have to work hard and enjoy because they decide to be a football player,
02:09
to be happy, to enjoy that moment.
02:12
So they have just to continue on that.
02:14
I just want to ask around Reece Jones,
02:17
just how influential he is on the pitch.
02:20
Just how pleased are you with him with time?
02:23
I know you said you want to manage minutes with him for the rest of the season,
02:26
but just how integral is he to your squad and your development going forward?
02:30
He played two Premier League games in a row with us,
02:34
Liverpool and Newcastle the other day.
02:37
I think in both games he was very good.
02:40
It didn't surprise me because I know how good he is
02:44
and how important he is for us, for his teammates, for the club.
02:48
So the only thing we want is to keep him fit
02:51
and this is the main target for him.
02:56
You've said a few times that you don't believe Chelsea are ready yet
03:00
to challenge Liverpool, City, Arsenal and the top three in last year's top three.
03:06
That would mean there's only one Champions League place
03:10
that you think Chelsea are able to go for.
03:12
Does that put a lot of pressure on the players for them to believe
03:15
that there's only one top four spot that's within their reach?
03:25
I already said that the club never mentioned me about top four.
03:29
Since I met the club the first time they always mentioned me
03:33
that the target, the idea was to build something important
03:38
for the next four or five years.
03:40
For sure we work every day to reach something important
03:46
and we're going to try until the end to do our best.
03:50
Then if there could be a pressure for the players,
03:54
I don't think so, I don't think so to be honest.
03:58
Probably if you go game by game you also can see yourself
04:06
where you are in that moment and I think this can help a lot
04:11
because if you start to think about top four or top six
04:16
you are already thinking about May, June and for me it's too far
04:21
and the same thing I think is for the players.
04:23
So now we are where we are, we're going to continue to try
04:28
to improve things, that is the most important thing
04:31
and then at the end we'll see.
04:33
Might it be time to rethink how close you are in terms of your progress
04:37
to that top three given how well the team competed against Liverpool
04:43
and they were probably a better team I think a lot of people think
04:46
for a lot of that match.
04:47
Do you think it might be time to rethink how close you are
04:51
to challenging that top three?
04:53
No, I still think the same.
04:55
First of all because I think this team can improve many, many things.
04:59
We can do many things better.
05:01
I said we can defend better, we can attack better,
05:04
we can manage better the game.
05:05
The last 20 minutes against Newcastle we didn't manage in the right way
05:09
and this is also a learning process for these kind of things
05:14
so we need to improve how to play different kind of games,
05:17
high pressing, teams that they sit back.
05:19
So this is the reason why I said we are still far from that club
05:23
and also because two of those three clubs,
05:28
they work with the same manager, same idea for five, nine, eight years.
05:35
Hi Enzo, there have been a record number of comebacks
05:37
in the Premier League this season.
05:39
Teams coming from two goals down to draw or win.
05:42
I wanted to get your thoughts on why that might be.
05:45
Is there something particular about Premier League games
05:48
that make them quite difficult to control?
05:50
Probably it's the reason why people are so in love with the Premier League.
05:54
Probably because you're from England,
05:57
you don't realise how abroad the Premier League is.
06:02
And one of the reasons why is because the game never finishes.
06:06
In different countries, I don't know,
06:09
in my country for instance, if you are 2-0 up the last five minutes,
06:14
you can have five, six players that fall down 20 seconds, half an hour.
06:18
So the game, it's difficult to come back.
06:22
In England, it's a different culture
06:24
and probably it's the reason why it's so nice, so beautiful.
06:27
I wanted to ask about Wesley as well.
06:29
He seems to be in a bit of discomfort with his knee against Newcastle,
06:33
where it's strapped up.
06:34
Is that something that he's just going to have to manage long-term
06:37
in terms of being able to play games?
06:40
He had a bad movement in the first half, very bad.
06:46
But he's a fighter.
06:48
He was there probably with pain, playing with pain.
06:52
I said in one of my press conferences,
06:55
the last press conference, that I really love Wes
06:58
because it's not easy after one year out, more than one year out,
07:02
to come back and be a fighter in the way he is.
07:05
And now he's also fighting with pain.
07:07
And when you have that kind of injury,
07:10
probably you're going to feel pain for the rest of your career.
07:15
Unfortunately, it's like this.
07:17
But he finished well.
07:19
He looks okay.
07:21
And this is the most important thing.
07:23
He seems to have a good partnership with Levi as well.
07:25
They complement each other quite well in defence.
07:27
Yeah, absolutely.
07:29
Also, I think when he played against West Ham away,
07:33
he played as a full-back with the tossing, with Levi.
07:37
I think in general, all of them, even Benoit,
07:41
I think against Liverpool he was very good.
07:43
Panathinaikos, he was very good.
07:45
So they are doing all well.
07:50
Hello.
07:51
I wanted to ask about Jadon Sancho.
07:53
We've only seen him play on the left wing so far.
07:56
But is there a chance for him to perhaps play on the right in some games?
08:00
Because we saw him do that at Dortmund and Manchester United.
08:03
Yeah, for sure. He can do that. Yeah, no doubt.
08:06
Okay, and just on tomorrow's team,
08:09
you've made 11 changes for a couple of games for the cup competitions.
08:14
Do you have to be a bit careful with tomorrow night
08:16
coming up against a quality opposition in Newcastle
08:19
that you don't perhaps change too much?
08:21
I'm always worried.
08:23
I'm always concerned about the other team.
08:26
For sure, tomorrow will be the same
08:28
because we just played two days ago,
08:31
so we know how good they are.
08:33
And again, away, probably they are even more
08:36
because of the environment.
08:38
But we'll see how today's session is
08:41
and then we'll take a decision for tomorrow's first 11.
08:44
Okay, cameras off, please.
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