Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca admitted he would like his side to concede less but is pleased they are scoring and winning as they prepare to face Nottingham Forest
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00:00Do you mind these kind of high scoring games at the moment and what do you make of Chelsea being the top scorers in the Premier League?
00:09Is it fine at this stage in the progression to be kind of winning 4-2, 3-0 and so on or would you almost want like a kind of clean sheet 1-0 just to have a slightly different perspective?
00:21Yeah, I think we played six Premier League games and I think we had two clean sheets probably. West Ham and Bournemouth.
00:35So at the end we had almost 50% of a clean sheet but for sure if you ask me if you prefer to win 4-2 or 2-0, I prefer not to concede a goal.
00:47At the same time I know that today any team in the world can create chances so it can happen that you concede a goal.
00:54The most important thing is that you get better defensively and also offensively I think we always create chances.
01:02Sometimes we score one, sometimes two, sometimes we are not going to score but the important thing is that every game we arrive there many, many times.
01:09Just to follow up on that, when mistakes are made at the back at Leicester, at Birmingham City at home, I think half-time or full-time, you said to Mads, keep doing it this way or be substituted.
01:21Has a similar conversation been had with say Robert Sanchez or the defenders that they've got to stick to it even if they make these mistakes?
01:30That one probably was even more. We were winning 1-0, 45 minutes, goal kick for us and we conceded a goal.
01:37But it's important that second half we continue in the same way and I think here, I said the other day, we are going to concede more goals building from behind.
01:47But if you see most of our chances in all the games we played since we started, even Wolves away, all the games, most of the time our action, our football starts with the keeper when they press higher.
02:00When they don't press higher, like tonight, how many times we play with Philippe tonight? Just in goal kick, I don't think we play many times with Philippe because we don't need that.
02:10And the other day again, we played against a team that were defending line very high, so we were more direct in behind.
02:18We have a plan for every game, sometimes it's working, sometimes not, but we are not playing every game the same, so we adapt a little bit.