As I have said many times target is top 4 - Maresca - video Dailymotion

Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca repeated that their aim for this season is a top 4 finish as they prepare to face Aston Villa Cobham, London, UK

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00:00You spoke there about Aston Villa's hopes, what are your hopes for Chelsea now for the

00:06remainder of the season? What do you hope to achieve between now and the end of the

00:10season?

00:11We said many times, I think we spent almost our season top four, now we have just 13 games

00:20to go, so for sure now the target for us is to finish top four, to try to finish in the

00:25best way. We're going to try to do our best to achieve that, knowing that probably the

00:33difficult moment that we have now is probably one of the reasons why, and the most important

00:41reason why, is because of the injury situation. We have five, six players that unfortunately

00:46for us, they are significant players, that they are out. I was watching two days ago

00:52the first game against Villa, and unfortunately we have from that game five players probably

00:58that they are out, Wes, Noni, Nico, Romeo, so the team changed completely. It's something

01:05that this season happened almost with many clubs, Arsenal had injury, City had injury,

01:14and we're going to try our best to win games also with the amount of injury we have.

01:20You say you aim to finish in the top four, you sit there looking like you believe that

01:24you can finish in the top four, you seem quite optimistic.

01:27But I've been always clear since day one, I'm not here to, and I said already this a

01:37few times, I'm not here to survive, I'm here to win games, I'm here to bring this club

01:44to fight for titles, and I said this already many times, the problem is that when you win

01:52games you look humble, and when you don't win games you look like lack of ambition.

01:59Since day one I joined this club, and my intention is to win games, to win titles, and to bring

02:04this club where this club deserves to be. I said this since day one, and if you review

02:10all my press conferences, I always repeat the same. The problem is, as I said, when

02:15you win you look humble, when you don't win you look like lack of ambition. I'm ambitious,

02:21the club is ambitious, we have the same manager, same players, and same sport director, same

02:29owners than two months ago when we were second in the league. So nothing changed, the only

02:34thing changed is that unfortunately we are dealing with many injuries, and this affects

02:40a little bit the level of the team.