Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca says that it is his belief that when there is bad intentions by players, referee's need to give a harsher punishment towards fouls.
23/11/2024
King Power Stadium, Leicester, UK
23/11/2024
King Power Stadium, Leicester, UK
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00:00Yeah, I think all the games are important and today has been important to win the game,
00:11but in the same way as it has been in the past when we won some games.
00:17Andy.
00:18Hi, Jürgen, can I just go off-track a little bit?
00:22We saw Cole Palmer's days played 90 minutes,
00:26played 90 minutes before the international break but was unfit to play for England.
00:31During the international break, Harry Kane has spoken quite strongly about that,
00:35and believes that, his words were that it's starting to drift that some players,
00:41or maybe their clubs, are putting pressure on them that they don't play for England.
00:46I just wonder what your reaction to those comments about Harry Kane would be, please.
00:49My reaction is that we finished the game ten minutes ago, we want to be one,
00:54and the rest...
00:58There is not any reaction, there is not any comments.
01:01We just finished the game ten minutes ago.
01:03I'm not thinking about Harry Kane or what he's saying,
01:05I just said we finished the game ten minutes ago and this is...
01:08I don't have any comments about that.
01:10I don't know if it was stated or not, but Harry Kane is a union captain
01:13and has basically said that some players or their clubs are not putting...
01:17are not that passionate about playing for their countries anymore.
01:21I just wondered, surely there must be something...
01:24Are you putting pressure on Cole Palmer not to play for England?
01:27Me?
01:28The club, is there anything of that going on?
01:30Absolutely not.
01:31Nizo.
01:32Hi, Nizo, what level can Nicholas Jackson get to,
01:35because I saw some of his old international teammates,
01:39he said that we should aim to win the Ballon d'Or.
01:41You probably want to hear what he said about Cole Palmer.
01:43How good can he be and how good is he now?
01:45For me, he's doing very well.
01:48We said many times since we started, I think he's working hard
01:52on the ball and off the ball.
01:54He's making an effort to understand the way we want to play.
01:57Sometimes we use him almost as a midfielder, dropping.
02:00Sometimes we use him attacking behind, like if you remember,
02:03Brighton or even today.
02:05So it depends a little bit on the game plan.
02:07But we are very happy with Nico in the way he's playing on the ball,
02:11but especially the way he's playing off the ball.
02:14The way he's pressing.
02:16In this moment, we are very happy and we are sure that he's going to improve
02:22and doing better game after game.
02:24How bad is the injury and illness to Malo Costolo?
02:28No, Malo was with us, but during the night, unfortunately,
02:33he didn't feel well in terms of ill, so he was out.
02:36And Pedro, he had a problem with the international team.
02:39There was a chance that he could be with us,
02:42but we didn't take any risk for this game,
02:45and hopefully he can be available for the next one.
02:47That's why it seemed only one bench against,
02:49because you found a first-double now,
02:51seeing as you don't keep him on the bench.
02:53Yeah, exactly.
02:54We were 21, and this is the reason why.
02:56Jacob?
02:57Inter, I saw another, but not a challenge, or a call from a team of single-minded.
03:04It's Manchester United who needs to be worried,
03:07but the teams are starting to target him.
03:09No, I don't think that the target is called.
03:13I don't think that.
03:15What I think, and I said after my United game,
03:18that when there is bad intention,
03:21I think there has to be a different kind of punishment from the referee.
03:28I think my United was bad intention.
03:31I'm not saying that Wilf was bad intention, because I love Wilf,
03:37so I'm not saying that there was any bad intention.
03:40But overall, when there is bad intention,
03:42I think that the punishment has to be different.
03:46But it's not because we want just our players to be defended.
03:51For me, it's general.
03:52When you see any club, any team, that there is any bad intention for another player,
03:58probably the punishment has to be different.
04:08Today foul?
04:09I don't think so.
04:10I saw the clip.
04:11I don't think it's red, to be honest.
04:16The other one, I said that for me it was a red one.
04:30No, we didn't have any update on Rhys.
04:35We have to wait still some day that he's going to do a scan again, and we'll see.
04:45I think that was his first start in the league since early October.
04:50How do you think he's responding today?
04:56Enzo did very well today.
04:58He's doing well since we started.
05:00The same one I said many times for Joao Felix.
05:03The problem is that it depends on the game plan.
05:06We use different kind of players.
05:09I think today was the right game to use Enzo,
05:12if he was back from international duty, international game.
05:16I think he did very well.
05:18I'm trying to convince Enzo in the way I tried last year with Ndidi, Keenan,
05:24that attacking midfielder, they have to arrive inside the box.
05:27The reason why he scored today was because he was inside the box.
05:30Otherwise, from outside the box, you are not going to score a goal.
05:33We are happy in the way Enzo is doing.
05:35And we'll finish with Kieran.
05:37Can I just make a comment?
05:39The full-time Levi Colbert was getting quite extensive treatment.
05:42Can you tell us what was going on?
05:44Levi is exactly the same as Malo, Gusto.
05:47He didn't feel very well during the night and this morning.
05:50But he could play, finish the game, and hopefully it's nothing important.
05:57Thanks, everyone.