Early kickoff Sunday not ideal, players have to refocus - Maresca - video Dailymotion

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Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca expressed his frustration at having the early kickoff on Sunday for their Premior League clash against Newcastle and said their players need to refocus after their Conference League semi-final win over Djurgarden Stamford Bridge, London, UK

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00:00It's an early kick-off on Sunday, Enzo.

00:02How does that affect your preparations, especially with the late finish tonight?

00:06It's not the ideal situation.

00:09It's 12 o'clock in the morning, it's the first night.

00:12But we need to play the game, so we need to adapt immediately,

00:17prepare the game in the best way.

00:18And as I said, hopefully we can continue our good moment.

00:24How do you get your players to forget tonight and refocus themselves

00:27to make sure the European is put aside for the finish of the Premier League season?

00:33Tomorrow we're going to start to prepare Newcastle.

00:36We have two days, tomorrow and Saturday.

00:39And the players, they need to be focused on the Newcastle game

00:43because it's the next one.

00:44And for us, it has to be like thinking that it's the last game of the season,

00:49give everything, then we see at the end.

Early kickoff Sunday not ideal, players have to refocus - Maresca

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