Maresca on Chelsea snatching point in Arsenal draw
Chelsea 1-1 Arsenal
10/11/2024
Stamford Bridge, London, UK
Chelsea 1-1 Arsenal
10/11/2024
Stamford Bridge, London, UK
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00:00I think the performance was good. We played the way we wanted to play, on the ball and
00:10off the ball. The game for some moments was open, anything can happen on both sides, but
00:17for sure, 100 per cent, at least we deserved the point. This is important.
00:23Nani didn't look delighted to come off, but the switch worked for him. Do you feel good
00:36about that and do you have any opinions on Nani's reaction to coming off?
00:40No, the problem is that when you change a player, they are never happy. Probably the
00:49only way to be happy is after Wolof's game, that he scored a hat-trick and we changed
00:53him, so he was happy. But it's not only about Nani, it's about all the players. It's also
01:01a good thing because they want to be there until the end. But in that moment, we thought
01:07in a different way, that probably Pedro with Timber could be a little bit more aggressive
01:15and Misha also, so it was just a tactical decision, no more than that.
01:19On Cole, did you take any risks with him today and was he OK at the end?
01:24No, I don't think that we took any risk. For sure, it was doubt until the end. But his
01:32performance has been very good. I think the first ten minutes we contacted with him from
01:37Coleville to him three or four times, then they adjusted and Partey was marking him man-to-man,
01:42so it's difficult for Cole in that case. But overall, very happy with Cole's performance.
01:47Is he OK?
01:48Yeah, he's painful now, but it doesn't look like something important.
01:52Enzo, you've been very close in a lot of these big games this season. You've not won any
01:58of them, but your performances have been good. How far away do you think you are at the moment?
02:02No, I've said it many times and I don't remember which one. Do you think that we deserve to
02:07lose against Liverpool? No. But it's football, it can happen. So very soon we're going to
02:12win this kind of game. But for sure in this moment, the performance is very important
02:17because if you draw tonight and you don't deserve to draw, probably you are happy about
02:22the result, but the performance is not good. I've said it many times, for me, Bournemouth
02:26away, we didn't deserve to win and we win. And probably at home with Palace or Forest,
02:32we deserve to win and we didn't win. So it's game by game. For sure, this kind of game,
02:36very soon we're going to win, but the performance has been very good.
02:40Are you finding just a little bit more conviction?
02:44No, I don't think so because the team until the end was trying to win the game. It's just
02:48a matter to score one more goal than the other team, but I don't think that. I was more worried
02:56if the performance was not good enough, but I think we competed very well against City,
03:01against Liverpool, against United tonight and this is important.
03:06How do you feel after the game?
03:15They showed me after the game, to be honest. It's nice, especially for the fans after the
03:21last period. That has not been great or in the way this club used to do that. So we are
03:30happy. Now we have international break, we can recover energy and then we are back. When
03:35we come back, we go again. But for sure it's something nice.
03:41There are lots of teams quite close together, you are in the top ten, but also at the top
03:48of that group. How encouraging is that given that you haven't had much time with the players
03:54yet? Have you improved as a result?
03:57Very happy, very happy. I said many times. Again, for me we are behind this kind of club
04:08like City, like Arsenal. The reason why is because they work every day in the last five
04:13years or in the last nine years with the same manager. So we are behind them, but this doesn't
04:18mean that when we face them we are not going to compete and try to win. Because Chelsea
04:23is one of the biggest clubs in Europe, in the world. So yes or yes, we need to compete
04:28and we need to try to win games. And again, tonight I think we compete, we try to win
04:33the game and then very soon we are going to win these kind of games.
04:38And we'll finish with a question in the third row.
04:57I try to manage, just be focused on the day by day. They just asked me where I see the
05:03club in May, April, at the end of the season. And I said that I'm not worried where we can
05:09be at the end of the season. I'm more worried, to be honest now I'm relaxed because we have
05:13international break, but when we work every day I'm more worried how we can improve the
05:18players and we can improve the team. And this is the main focus since we started.
05:33I don't know.