Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca reacts to Chelsea's home 2-1 defeat against Fulham
26/12/2024
Stamford Bridge, London, UK
26/12/2024
Stamford Bridge, London, UK
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00:00Review of today's game and then we'll do a preview to the Ipswich game, which is embargoed for 1 p.m
00:06Tomorrow who else gets underway John
00:13Yeah, especially as you said for the way probably
00:17Concede the goal that we concede at the end
00:20It's a bad feeling also because I said many times when you cannot win is important that you don't lose
00:27But yeah, I think the first 15-20 minutes of a second half has been the part that I didn't like
00:35Because we concede so many transition too many transition
00:39We knew that they are a team building for transition with Iwobi, Adama, Robinson, Jimenez
00:47So first half, I think we control that very good. We score we create chances and then second half
00:53I think we give them too much energy in the first 15-20 minutes and
00:58then even when they draw after I think we had some good chances with
01:03Marco Correia with the Jadon, but yeah has been a shame
01:12For sure manage the game in
01:15Better because as I said, we knew that they are very good in transition
01:22It's it's difficult to find a team like them with so many players that they can run a lot
01:28Robinson, Iwobi, Adama, Jimenez
01:31I think first half we control that quite well second half of the first 15-20 minutes
01:37We didn't control that
01:39It's a game that for me before you attack you need to give passes passes passes because that makes us
01:44Together and in the moment that we lose the ball we can be aggressive
01:48But if we want to attack with one two passes, then we are
01:51Stretch we are open and they can hurt us
01:55But yeah, it's a lesson that we can learn
02:08I don't think so. I don't think so
02:10But as I said, they are a team that if you want to attack quick
02:14Then they're gonna attack quick and become basketball game and it's not for us. We need to control better and for sure
02:22If there is something that I didn't like tonight for sure the result
02:26But the other thing is that that for some moment we could manage much better the game
02:31You've spoken, I'm sure you've been asked this already, but you've said all the way through that you're not ready to challenge at the top of the league for a title race
02:39Is that evidence as to why you're just not being able to manage the game?
02:43No, no, I said the same question after when we win a game I said always not because we win tonight
02:51We are ready for the title and not because we lose tonight
02:56It's more the feeling that we have inside the reality that we can see that there are many things that we can do
03:02Better for sure tonight. One of the things that we could do better is the game management
03:08But also I think we did many good things
03:26No
03:28No, because I didn't feel
03:31Or I didn't see the player with with pressure also because
03:37It's we try to focus when we play Everton away or tonight
03:41We don't prepare the game thinking guys if we beat Everton or we beat
03:46It's just the way we try to beat them and focus on that
03:49Then we can be second or we can be one point for every points
03:53So I don't think was about pressure
04:05Yeah, but especially I try to make change since we start you know that we try to make change
04:11When we see that the ones that they are playing they are not doing enough
04:16But even tonight if you have to make a change for change just because you want to change
04:21But I think tonight the ones that they were playing they were doing very good even Nico but probably because he was
04:28Sprinting a lot. He was a bit tired
04:30So we decide to change but the rest I think Pedro until the last minutes was doing well
04:35Jadon was doing well cool was doing well more and then so both very good. So
04:40Changed for change. I don't I don't think worth it
04:51No, but the second goal was yeah, the ball was for us we lost the first one when there is a contact
04:58There was a contact but it's not just just about Pedro
05:03It's just for me is to manage better that moment with the ball and
05:10Was just about that
05:12Would be two more
05:13Yeah, I think the second goal was yeah, the ball was for us. We lost the first one when there is a contact
05:20We'll do two more in the front row and behind please
05:34No, there is a way I just said the reason why is because if you decide to put mark you you have to change
05:40One that is there and we we decide to change a Nico for crystal and then for Joao I said
05:47Joao more or less has the same position than cool in some games. They already played together
05:53But and then it's also a matter of of balance. So this is the reason why
06:07You know tossing is doing well
06:10It's doing well since we start even when was not playing. He was trying to help and help the teammates
06:17He's he's doing well
06:19probably in that part of
06:23The school or in that part of the area is the one that in this moment without for Fana without by the Achilles
06:31Probably we struggle a bit more but he's doing well