Maresca on Chelsea's comfortable 3-0 win at West Ham

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Maresca on Chelsea's comfortable 3-0 win at West Ham  21/09/2024  London Stadium, London, UK

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00:00Take away league wins, the first time that's been done since Peppa and City, you must be absolutely delighted.

00:06Especially with the performance and the three points, that is the most important thing.

00:12I think also clean sheet, so it's been a complete performance.

00:19So yeah, we are very happy.

00:22What do you think is the key here?

00:36Many things to be honest.

00:38Probably the way the players are buying the idea or the different style since I arrived has been top.

00:48But also I think the way we are working off the ball.

00:53Today's performance from Nicolas and Cole has been top, not only because they scored,

00:59but we prepared the game setting three against two because they build with three players.

01:04And we have said that, and the way they work off the ball has been top.

01:08So if we understand that we need that, the behaviour, the desire, probably we can build something important.

01:19How good a timing was it for this performance given both co-owners were here today?

01:34So how good a timing is it for you to have gone to court in front of your bosses and have they come down to the dressing room?

01:42I think not only today, it's always good when we win a game for them.

01:46Especially as you said, because they were both here, probably we can give also them some good moments.

01:53As you said, they were in the changing room, they were all happy.

01:57The results and the points are always important in our business for sure.

02:04But for me the main target in this moment is to see how we progress as a team.

02:10And I think we are improving many things, even if today we could attack better, we could defend better,

02:18but especially we could manage the game much, much better.

02:21Sometimes we need to give more passes, keep the ball, and we are in a rush and we want to attack immediately.

02:27But overall I think we deserve to win the game.

02:33Can I ask about was it fun? They had some strapping on his knee, is that anything serious?

02:39No, no, no, no. The reason why we changed him is because, as I already said many times,

02:45we tried to protect a little bit him and also because he was with yellow card.

02:50Then second half they changed Kudus in this side and probably it was a big risk to keep him.

02:56But there is not any injury. Wes is a player that I really love.

03:03I'm in love with Wes because he is doing fantastic after one year injury.

03:09And for any player in the world, when you are one year out and then you come back,

03:13it's not easy and he is doing top and this is the only thing we want from him.

03:28Dancing.

03:29I didn't see.

03:33I didn't see to be honest. After the first goal. Hopefully he can dance more.

03:40It wasn't very good, but it's still a shame.

03:46You said on Friday, you said yesterday, last week at Bournemouth,

03:49you missed a few chances, you still had a play to win.

03:52So how good for him today to get those two goals like that?

03:56Fantastic. In terms of numbers, goal and assist, since I arrived here, he is doing well.

04:02Off the ball, again, he is working hard.

04:04And I said the other day, if a player misses one chance or two chances,

04:08it doesn't mean that he is not playing well. It can happen.

04:11All the players, they miss chances. The important thing is the complete performance.

04:15And against Bournemouth, it was a good performance from Nicolas.

04:18Then the last ten minutes, we changed something.

04:20Christophe was inside, was top, scored, won the game.

04:23And this is what we expected from all of them.

04:30For sure. Also.

04:34Hamza, over to you.

04:43No, no. They were happy after the game.

04:46Before the game, no, because we are preparing the game.

04:48But after the game, they were happy both.

05:04Do you have a sense of identity?

05:12I think we are on the right path.

05:14We are in the right direction.

05:16But this is a long journey.

05:20Now, probably because we won today and we are in a good moment,

05:24it looks like everything is fine.

05:27But as I said, not everything is fine.

05:29We could attack better, we could defend better.

05:33But it's just a matter of time.

05:36I said at the beginning, the most important thing is how the players buy

05:40since we arrived here, the work together.

05:44And this is the most important thing.

05:46Okay, we'll end it there. Thank you, everyone.

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