Maresca refuses to blame Sanchez error as Chelsea lose 3-1 at City

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Maresca refuses to blame Sanchez error as Chelsea lose 3-1 at City  25/01/2025  Etihad Stadium, Manchester, Uk

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00:00OK, Phil, do you want to get us underway?

00:28Your goalkeeper obviously realised he'd made a mistake by going and he's never going to get there.

00:33As a manager, when you go in, do you give him a bollock in for want of a better word?

00:40Or do you keep quiet? Or do you offer him words of comfort?

00:43Or do you just leave him because he knows he's made a mistake that's a glaring one?

00:47Because, with respect, he's made a few.

00:49No, Robert, for sure, is completely aware that he has to do better.

00:55He was completely aware after the game, he knows perfectly.

00:58And in this moment, it's like this.

01:02The good thing is that he's the first one, knowing, aware, that he has to do better.

01:12Liam?

01:13Hi, Enzo. You had a great start to the game, but then it seemed like Chelsea's pressing dropped off

01:21and you had the high line. What do you put that down to, the pressing?

01:26We started the game exactly the way we prepared.

01:30We scored the first one, we could score the second one in three different chances.

01:36I think I'm completely sure that scoring the second one,

01:39because of the mood, because of the moment we scored the second one,

01:42the game completely changed.

01:44Unfortunately, we didn't score the second one.

01:46And then, the high pressing, you have to be brave in these kinds of games,

01:52knowing that if you press higher, sometimes you have to leave their best player,

01:57that is Haaland, 1-1 against your defender.

02:00But I think we did, for the most part of the game, quite well.

02:06Even the second goal we conceded, we were 1-1 with Trev,

02:10but there was all the time to control and to manage better the moment.

02:15Did you feel at all that the intensity dropped off a little bit from your players?

02:20Was it something you were saying to them?

02:22During the game, you mean?

02:23Yeah.

02:26For sure, for the way they play, it's not easy to deal,

02:30because they move and they are a master in the way they play.

02:34But we tried to do our best, I think, for part of the game.

02:37It works quite well.

02:38As I said, I think the plan...

02:40We are talking about a different game now, if we are able to score the second one,

02:44because the plan was working very well,

02:47scoring the first one, chances to score the second one.

02:51And in these kinds of games, where the details make the difference,

02:55most of the time the difference is inside the box,

02:58they are being clinical, the chance they had,

03:00and unfortunately we missed.

03:02Simon?

03:03Just coming back to Robert, there's a stat come out that says

03:06that that was his fifth error that's led directly to a goal this season

03:10and nobody's made more than that.

03:12Do you still trust him?

03:13It's a huge position, the goalkeeper.

03:16You have to be confident that the goalkeeper is going to be secure.

03:20No, yeah, we trust Robert for sure,

03:22but in the same moment, as I said,

03:24the first one that is completely aware that is making a mistake in this moment

03:30is Robert.

03:31So for sure we continue to trust Robert, we trust Robert,

03:35but now we are one entire week and we see the reaction

03:39and then we decide for the next game.

03:41James?

03:42Enzo, City had a young debutant, Nikusinov,

03:46who had obviously a really tough game and gave away the first goal.

03:50Were you not disappointed your players were unable to exploit that situation

03:55more in the first half?

03:58I think we exploited it quite well.

04:00We scored the first one and we could score the second one,

04:03then after he had the yellow card also.

04:05So I think the team explored quite well.

04:08Then that means that you are going to score goals,

04:11even if the chance was there.

04:12So I think we scored the first one,

04:16we could score the second one in a different moment.

04:19Unfortunately we missed and the game I think was there.

04:23Sam?

04:25Enzo, what do you think about the bigger picture at the moment?

04:28Obviously it's not a good run for your side at the moment.

04:31How do you see it and do you think there will be signings in the next few days?

04:36No, I just said for sure in my opinion we are a better team

04:41than one month ago, two months ago,

04:43because this kind of moment, these kind of games,

04:45for sure they are going to make us better and better

04:48because we need to live this experience.

04:51I said already two weeks ago that from now on we can be fourth,

04:56we can be third, we can be fifth, sixth.

04:58Until the end now every game can change a little bit.

05:01The good thing is that we are focused

05:03and we are trying to improve game after game.

05:09Hi Enzo, you described Manchester City as masters then.

05:12Obviously you used to work here when they won the treble.

05:15Their form this season hasn't been as good,

05:17but do you see bits of the old city here?

05:20What's changed about them? Where are they maybe not as good?

05:23Because you obviously still rate them quite highly.

05:25Oh yeah, absolutely.

05:27I still consider City that they're going to be there.

05:33Probably now the distance from them to the first is quite big,

05:37so it's not easy.

05:38But at the end, for the team they have, the club they are,

05:41I have no doubt that they're going to be there at the end of the season.

05:45OK, thank you.

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