Maresca on Chelsea snatching point in Arsenal draw

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Maresca on Chelsea snatching point in Arsenal draw  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.

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