Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca on Palmer and him making Premier League history with 4 goals in the 1st half
28/09/2024
Stamford Bridge, London, UK
28/09/2024
Stamford Bridge, London, UK
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00:00I just saw you on the final whistle and you sort of yelled and screamed.
00:04It looked like you enjoyed that win more than the others.
00:06Was it because it was a home win or what was the reason?
00:10No, I don't think I enjoyed it more than the rest,
00:14simply because I think it was probably our most important game of the season,
00:22for many reasons, and I was happy for the result, for the performance,
00:27and as I said, it's always nice to share that kind of moment with our fans.
00:33Why was it important?
00:35Because after two wins in a row away, it's always difficult to keep that momentum,
00:42because many times you can think that two wins away and you can drop a little bit,
00:47so it was important to continue with that moment,
00:50and also because the game was exactly the way we planned the game,
00:56so I think it was a good moment.
01:00Where does Cole Palmer's performance today rate an individual performance?
01:07For sure when he scored four goals, but I just said to Cole,
01:10he scored four, he could score two or three more,
01:12so it's good that he continues to be hungry, ambitious,
01:16and I know Cole from many years ago, I had him already one entire season,
01:21with under-23 at City and then with the first team.
01:24The best thing he has is that in the way he is today as a boy,
01:28he was exactly in that way three or four years ago.
01:31So goals, assists, best player of the Premier League,
01:34this doesn't change the way he is.
01:36He's a simple guy, he's a humble guy,
01:38and this is, for me, the most important thing.
01:42How special is he?
01:44He's a top player, and the important thing about the previous thing
01:49is that today in football, young players change very quickly.
01:53They score one goal, and they think that they are already...
01:57And Cole scored many goals, many assists, he's a top player,
02:00but he never changed, and this is the most important thing.
02:04We'll go to Liam.
02:06Palmer's playing a slightly different position in your system this year
02:09to the way he's often used at Arsenal.
02:12Do you think you can behave more intellectually now
02:14in the role he's trying to play?
02:17We tried to use Cole in that position
02:22because probably for me it's his best position.
02:25But he can play as a fake nine, he can play as a nine,
02:31he can play as a winger, he can play in the pocket
02:33in the way he's playing now.
02:35He can play in different positions because he's so good,
02:38and I don't know compared to last year.
02:43I said many times I was not here, I don't have an idea.
02:45The only thing I can say is that Cole inside the pitch is where he's best.
02:52Andy.
02:53Just to hark back to what you said to Matt there,
02:56do you think you'll have to work on keeping him grounded,
03:00or do you think he'll never get carried away?
03:03No, I think if...
03:08Already many good things happened in his life as a professional,
03:13to give him the chance to change.
03:15But he didn't change.
03:17So that means that probably in the way he is,
03:20he's going to be always in that way.
03:24I have four kids, I have one boy and three girls.
03:28My boy is 11 and I would like to have my boy.
03:32Many things happened and it's not going to change.
03:34Because as I said, with young players today,
03:37young people, young boys, they change very easily.
03:41The best thing for me is that he enjoys football,
03:45he's always in the same way, and this is something fantastic for him.
03:49So do you tell your son to be like Cole Palmer?
03:52No, I tell my son to be in the way he is,
03:55that I'm happy with that, and Cole is a different one.
04:01That's a sign of someone who is really quietly confident, right?
04:05And somebody who is really, really good is usually the person
04:08that doesn't have to tell everybody how good they are.
04:10That's usually the sign of somebody who is extra special, right?
04:14Is that your comment?
04:15Yeah, absolutely.
04:17He's a special player, he's a simple guy, a humble guy,
04:21and as you said, he doesn't need to tell people how good he is,
04:25because you can see clearly how good he is.
04:41What would you say about Steve Everton?
04:44Yeah, I would say exactly the same thing I already said many times.
04:49I think Karne is a very good player,
04:53but for the amount of players that we have,
04:57we probably decided at the beginning of the season
05:00that for him it was probably better to leave and go somewhere,
05:04to prove himself playing 30, 35 games than to be here and play less games.
05:09Then unfortunately it didn't happen.
05:11He's one of our players, he had some minutes the other day,
05:15today he was not involved.
05:17Hopefully we can give him more minutes.
05:31I think off the ball we struggled first half,
05:34because they surprised us, they changed something.
05:36On the ball the game was exactly the way we planned,
05:39first half and second half.
05:41Then after time we adjusted a little bit the way we were pressing.
05:44I think second half we didn't concede nothing in terms of chances.
05:48First half we conceded two goals,
05:51and then some moments that for me the reason why
05:55is because the way they played on the ball,
05:57they surprised us a little bit.
06:01But in terms of the way we played on the ball,
06:04I think we scored four.
06:06We could have scored three or four more already in the first half,
06:09to pose a different action.
06:13And then the two goals we conceded,
06:15the first one is a mistake, a normal mistake.
06:18The second one probably is not about trying to play from behind.
06:23For me it's more about reading the moment.
06:26We were 1-0 down, then we were 3-1 up.
06:30In that moment we didn't need to take any risk.
06:33It's more for them to take risks, not for us.
06:36But I said to Robert and I said to the players,
06:39from now on we are going to concede ten more goals,
06:42more goals, like the way we conceded the second goal.
06:44Because it's the way we want to play.
06:46And we already scored goals with Robert involved in the build-up.
06:51But it's important that after the mistake,
06:54the team completely continue in the same way.
06:57That means that they enjoy, they like,
06:59and they see that also we win games.