McKenna previews facing Chelsea on the final match of the 2024

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Ipswich Town boss Kieran McKenna previews facing Chelsea on the final match of the 2024  27/12/2024  Emirates Stadium, London, Uk

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00:00I think usually when you've got Friday night and Monday night, there's likely to be some

00:07changes so yeah, we'll assess that over the weekend.

00:10Do you learn anything from those lectures?

00:16No, I don't think I learned anything that I wouldn't learn from watching Chelsea now

00:23really.

00:24A lot of the structures in possession in particular are the same, but of course now he's working

00:31with a completely, you know, Leicester had very good players as well, but with a different

00:35calibre of player which makes it even bigger a challenge.

00:37Just wondering your thoughts on how he's adapted to life in the Premier League as well

00:43from his time at Leicester, and I know you said that the passing was similar, but just

00:47generally how do you think he's adapted to life at Chelsea?

00:51Both of it seems to have done very, very well.

00:54Yeah, I think they've of course went about it a little bit differently, but they've recruited

01:01some fantastic players for quite a few transfers, some fantastic young players and seem to have

01:09really found their way with that.

01:12Enzo's done a really good job coaching them and getting them into the structure that he

01:16likes and turning them into a good team.

01:20As I said, to be fair, the second half of last season Maurizio had really good results

01:23there as well and you could see the talent that was there, you could see the talent was

01:27coming through and they had really good results in the second half of last season.

01:31But I think Enzo's taken that on to another level this year and he seems to have settled

01:36in very well.

01:37I know you'll be furthermore focused on him, so do you see Chelsea as potential title challengers

01:42because they have started this season and perhaps surprising a lot of people?

01:46I think their manager says no, doesn't he, so he's in a better position to judge them.

01:51Liverpool are obviously in incredible form, but they're certainly one of the best teams

01:55in the league, so I guess they'll make their judgements on that and time will tell in the

01:59end.

02:01Thank you everyone.

02:02Oh, you've got one?

02:03Sorry.

02:04It's alright.

02:05No problem.

02:06Do you think that makes them potentially more dangerous?

02:15Let's see, it can go either way to be fair.

02:19Yeah, there's no doubt they've got a lot of good players in the squad.

02:23They've got the ability to rotate and keep the level of the team extremely high.

02:28They've got an extra day to prepare and I'm sure they've been frustrated with the result

02:31against Fulham, so I'm sure they're going to be really hungry to get three points on

02:35Monday night, but we've got to make sure that we match that and make it as competitive

02:40as we can.

02:41And finally, obviously you mentioned that it's the final game, but do you feel that

02:45would be the real reason to want to get that first win at home?

02:48Do you feel it adds pressure?

02:50Do you feel they should play without any pressure?

02:55Look, I think until we get the first home win it's going to be the story.

02:59Until we got the first win at Tottenham it was going to be the story.

03:04I know the margins in the Leicester game, in Bournemouth game and other games we had

03:09and we would have the first win and it wouldn't be a story.

03:11Our world wouldn't be that different.

03:13We'd still have a lot to do to make it a very successful season.

03:18So yeah, we weren't happy with the last game out against Newcastle.

03:23We came up a really good side and we fell short.

03:25We're coming up against a very, very good side on Monday night and we've got to find

03:28a way to make it competitive, so that's my only focus.

03:32If we can manage to make it competitive against Chelsea then that's who we are at the end

03:36of the game if we can find a way to go and get some points as well.

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