When there is bad intentions, referee's need to give a harsher punishment -Maresca

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Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca says that it is his belief that when there is bad intentions by players, referee's need to give a harsher punishment towards fouls.  23/11/2024  King Power Stadium, Leicester, UK

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00:00Yeah, I think all the games are important and today has been important to win the game,

00:11but in the same way as it has been in the past when we won some games.

00:17Andy.

00:18Hi, Jürgen, can I just go off-track a little bit?

00:22We saw Cole Palmer's days played 90 minutes,

00:26played 90 minutes before the international break but was unfit to play for England.

00:31During the international break, Harry Kane has spoken quite strongly about that,

00:35and believes that, his words were that it's starting to drift that some players,

00:41or maybe their clubs, are putting pressure on them that they don't play for England.

00:46I just wonder what your reaction to those comments about Harry Kane would be, please.

00:49My reaction is that we finished the game ten minutes ago, we want to be one,

00:54and the rest...

00:58There is not any reaction, there is not any comments.

01:01We just finished the game ten minutes ago.

01:03I'm not thinking about Harry Kane or what he's saying,

01:05I just said we finished the game ten minutes ago and this is...

01:08I don't have any comments about that.

01:10I don't know if it was stated or not, but Harry Kane is a union captain

01:13and has basically said that some players or their clubs are not putting...

01:17are not that passionate about playing for their countries anymore.

01:21I just wondered, surely there must be something...

01:24Are you putting pressure on Cole Palmer not to play for England?

01:27Me?

01:28The club, is there anything of that going on?

01:30Absolutely not.

01:31Nizo.

01:32Hi, Nizo, what level can Nicholas Jackson get to,

01:35because I saw some of his old international teammates,

01:39he said that we should aim to win the Ballon d'Or.

01:41You probably want to hear what he said about Cole Palmer.

01:43How good can he be and how good is he now?

01:45For me, he's doing very well.

01:48We said many times since we started, I think he's working hard

01:52on the ball and off the ball.

01:54He's making an effort to understand the way we want to play.

01:57Sometimes we use him almost as a midfielder, dropping.

02:00Sometimes we use him attacking behind, like if you remember,

02:03Brighton or even today.

02:05So it depends a little bit on the game plan.

02:07But we are very happy with Nico in the way he's playing on the ball,

02:11but especially the way he's playing off the ball.

02:14The way he's pressing.

02:16In this moment, we are very happy and we are sure that he's going to improve

02:22and doing better game after game.

02:24How bad is the injury and illness to Malo Costolo?

02:28No, Malo was with us, but during the night, unfortunately,

02:33he didn't feel well in terms of ill, so he was out.

02:36And Pedro, he had a problem with the international team.

02:39There was a chance that he could be with us,

02:42but we didn't take any risk for this game,

02:45and hopefully he can be available for the next one.

02:47That's why it seemed only one bench against,

02:49because you found a first-double now,

02:51seeing as you don't keep him on the bench.

02:53Yeah, exactly.

02:54We were 21, and this is the reason why.

02:56Jacob?

02:57Inter, I saw another, but not a challenge, or a call from a team of single-minded.

03:04It's Manchester United who needs to be worried,

03:07but the teams are starting to target him.

03:09No, I don't think that the target is called.

03:13I don't think that.

03:15What I think, and I said after my United game,

03:18that when there is bad intention,

03:21I think there has to be a different kind of punishment from the referee.

03:28I think my United was bad intention.

03:31I'm not saying that Wilf was bad intention, because I love Wilf,

03:37so I'm not saying that there was any bad intention.

03:40But overall, when there is bad intention,

03:42I think that the punishment has to be different.

03:46But it's not because we want just our players to be defended.

03:51For me, it's general.

03:52When you see any club, any team, that there is any bad intention for another player,

03:58probably the punishment has to be different.

04:08Today foul?

04:09I don't think so.

04:10I saw the clip.

04:11I don't think it's red, to be honest.

04:16The other one, I said that for me it was a red one.

04:30No, we didn't have any update on Rhys.

04:35We have to wait still some day that he's going to do a scan again, and we'll see.

04:45I think that was his first start in the league since early October.

04:50How do you think he's responding today?

04:56Enzo did very well today.

04:58He's doing well since we started.

05:00The same one I said many times for Joao Felix.

05:03The problem is that it depends on the game plan.

05:06We use different kind of players.

05:09I think today was the right game to use Enzo,

05:12if he was back from international duty, international game.

05:16I think he did very well.

05:18I'm trying to convince Enzo in the way I tried last year with Ndidi, Keenan,

05:24that attacking midfielder, they have to arrive inside the box.

05:27The reason why he scored today was because he was inside the box.

05:30Otherwise, from outside the box, you are not going to score a goal.

05:33We are happy in the way Enzo is doing.

05:35And we'll finish with Kieran.

05:37Can I just make a comment?

05:39The full-time Levi Colbert was getting quite extensive treatment.

05:42Can you tell us what was going on?

05:44Levi is exactly the same as Malo, Gusto.

05:47He didn't feel very well during the night and this morning.

05:50But he could play, finish the game, and hopefully it's nothing important.

05:57Thanks, everyone.

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