Maresca on Chelsea's comfortable 3-0 win over Villa and climbing to third

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Maresca on Chelsea's comfortable 3-0 win over Villa and climbing to third  01/12/2024  Stamford Bridge, London, UK

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00:00Right, who wants to get us underway? Nizar?

00:02Hi Nizar, where do you rank that in sort of successes during the reign? It was an amazing performance today.

00:07Yeah, it was a very good performance on the ball and off the ball. I think we competed quite well.

00:14And I think we are doing that since we started. Sometimes better, sometimes worse.

00:22But I said many times, I think we are in the right direction.

00:27Was this a step forward even for Camilla Wings because it felt very dominant and like everything was working for you today?

00:36To be honest, I don't know. I said even after Leicester game, no matter who is the other team,

00:42it's important to try to play in the way we want to play on the ball and off the ball.

00:46And when we do this and we get three points, we are for sure happy.

00:50But I think the performance was very good on the ball.

00:55We played in the way we prepared the game because Villa is a very difficult team.

00:59They are top defensively. It's not easy to find space.

01:02They don't jump to the... They don't press.

01:05They just wait. So you have to be patient.

01:09If you force, you lose the ball, you concede. And off the ball, we were, again, very aggressive.

01:15We were pressing. Nicolas Jackson scored a goal, but he did a fantastic job.

01:18He was pressing the keeper and the right centre defender.

01:21He was running for two players. And this is what we need.

01:39No, yeah, I said we are always looking for balance on the ball and off the ball.

01:46Enzo did fantastic today once again.

01:48Moy again. But today's game, I think it's very difficult to find one of them that was not good.

01:55I think we were all good and this is important.

02:10No, no, absolutely. I'm not... I said many times I'm not agree with that.

02:13I think we are not ready to compete with Liverpool, Arsenal and City for many reasons.

02:22Because we win today, I'm not going to change my idea.

02:26We are not ready for that.

02:29But the good thing is that we are improving and hopefully very soon we can be there.

02:44No, it was a very good game for many reasons.

02:49One of the reasons was because on the other side, there was a team that is fantastic.

02:56I said I consider Emery a top manager. He wins trophies everywhere.

03:02And he's doing something fantastic at Villa.

03:05But also we were there, we prepared the game and we deserved to win.

03:14Unfortunately, it's bad news. It was a hamstring problem.

03:18That these kind of things at least require three, four, five weeks.

03:23That in this moment means we lose 10 games, 12 games.

03:26And in the way he was playing, it's a big loss for us.

03:31But we have more players and we try to find a solution.

03:34How big a blow is that going to be because of the partnership he's had with you today?

03:39It's a big loss. It's a big loss because he's doing fantastic.

03:44But it's normal when you play this amount of games.

03:49Unfortunately, it was his first injury this season.

03:56But we're going to find a solution.

03:59Just on Enzo Fernandez, you scored against Leicester, scored again here.

04:04Is there more of an emphasis on trying to get him into those positions?

04:10Exactly. And more times he was in the right position.

04:13He was inside the box. We didn't contact with him.

04:17In the action that we scored, we contacted with him.

04:20But he has to be... It's very difficult to see goal from outside the box.

04:26Almost all the goals happen inside the box.

04:28So we need the two wingers, the two attacking midfielders, the number nine inside the box.

04:32We need two players inside the box.

04:37It's the only way to try to score goals.

04:39And also it's important, the other one, that they are at the edge, immediately recover the ball.

04:44The first goal we score is because Marco Correia is in the right position.

04:48Win the ball back and we score the goal.

04:50Question from the third row.

04:52Just a question around a player that was back in the squad today, Malo Gusto.

04:56What do you think of him and his improvement so far this season?

04:59Malo is doing fantastic.

05:01I said many times that one of the reasons why we are where we are in this moment is because of Malo.

05:09He helps us a lot in terms of process.

05:12With us, he plays full-back higher, full-back inside, full-back in the pocket.

05:17He's playing three, four positions.

05:18The good thing is that he's happy because he's learning also different things.

05:22We'll do two more. The second row and just down here.

05:26Yep. On the left.

05:30I just wanted to ask what you thought of Cole Palmer's performance.

05:33Obviously, he got thrown in, but without the ball, like you said about Jackson,

05:37just how good he was in stopping, whether he was playing out the path?

05:41Yeah, Cole Palmer, Joao Felix is the reason why people pay tickets.

05:47It's to see that, to watch that kind of player.

05:51And Cole Palmer, he can see things like Joao that the rest, they cannot see.

05:58It doesn't mean that the rest, they are no good, but they are different from the rest.

06:05You said Chelsea are not quite there yet to be able to compete.

06:09They're a bit tight, as you mentioned.

06:12But you're hopeful that you can get there soon.

06:15What is it you want to see still to narrow that gap?

06:20For sure, we need to improve many things.

06:22We can attack better, we can defend better.

06:25But what we need for me is you have to live moments to get better.

06:34I don't know if it's clear in English, but you have to live moments to get better.

06:38These kind of players, some of them in their life, in their experience,

06:42they play probably one final for any title.

06:45Probably last year, Carabao Cup has been the most important game they played.

06:49So you need to live moments to get better.

06:52And when we start to get that moments, probably we get better and we can compete.

06:57Arsenal player, Liverpool player, City player, they all live finals, compete for titles.

07:05So we're going to be there soon.

07:08But this is one of the reasons why we are still far and not ready to compete with those clubs.

07:13Great, thanks everyone.

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