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Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca reacts to 1-5 victory over West Ham and updates on Palmer injury

22/08/2025

London Stadium, London, UK

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00:00Yeah, very happy, very impressed, especially because we didn't start in the right way,
00:12call injury, conceded a goal after five minutes, but the reaction was very good.
00:18Yeah, but you need balance, you need Caicedo, you need Denso Fernandes, you need Trev, Tosin,
00:30Malo, so the attacking players, they are important, but at the same time also the defenders players.
00:40We conceded the goal because of him, he lost the ball in the build-up, so he needs to make
00:48mistakes to learn, but overall the performance was very good.
00:52Yeah, that show how good it is and the reason why he's here with us.
00:59Yes.
01:00Kieran?
01:01Hi, Enzo.
01:02Obviously, losing Palmer in the warm-up, you've been with five different stones.
01:06I think the winds like that sort of, tell off those people who say that Chelsea have
01:12called Palmer in the same position.
01:17You know already how I think that I don't care about, you are there to say things and people
01:24in general, they are there to say something.
01:29So the ones that they say that we are just a goal team, for sure, it's our best player,
01:36no doubt.
01:37For sure, with the goal we are a much, much, much better team.
01:40But I think we are already sure last year in two, three months where Cole, unfortunately
01:45for us, was not 100%, where we achieved top four.
01:49That no one expected.
01:51And the most important thing, no one asked me in the first season to finish top four
01:57champion league.
01:58They asked me in two years champion league.
02:04Simon?
02:05Simon?
02:06Simon?
02:07Simon?
02:08Simon?
02:09Simon?
02:10Simon?
02:11Simon?
02:12Just checking what is the status of Cole's in the Korean and all of that.
02:14And just to talk about that question, I know what you're saying about people in
02:18last year that it's a good bit, but again, you're talking about Cole.
02:21Yeah, Cole in the last four or five days, it was not 100%.
02:25Today he tried the warm-up, but he felt something.
02:28So we prefer don't take any risk to get worse.
02:33And we see now in the next hours if it's something important or not.
02:38And then for sure Joao, Joao Pedro, Liam, Estevao, Jamie Gittens, that he will be good
02:45for sure.
02:46They are all fantastic players.
02:47You can see that probably Liam and Joao, they are a little bit more ahead of the
02:51rest.
02:52But the reason why is because they were already here in England.
02:55Jamie needs to adapt a little bit.
02:57Estevao needs to adapt.
02:58Ato needs time to adapt.
03:00But overall we are very happy with all of them.
03:02Tom?
03:03Tom.
03:04Tom.
03:05Tom.
03:06What is the player game now?
03:07Tom?
03:08Tom?
03:09Growing?
03:10Growing?
03:11Growing?
03:12Growing.
03:13Growing.
03:14Yeah.
03:15It's already probably a Palace game that it was not 100%, but he tried to make a big
03:19He's not 100%, but he's tried to make a big effort for the club, for the team, for the fans because he's really keen about the team.
03:30Tonight again, he tried again, but it was not very good.
03:36How did you play together?
03:39The reason why is because I saw that both can play together.
03:45We didn't play since we started with both together.
03:51It was the first time.
03:53And I think that works quite well.
03:55We can do much, much better.
03:57But overall, we are happy with that.
03:59Davida?
04:01A lot of things that you have to talk about.
04:04Which is the one you're most happy about?
04:08Probably the start was not the best in the game.
04:14In the way we plan.
04:16But the reaction from the players, but especially you can see how confident they are about the game plan.
04:22They still do the game plan on the ball and off the ball.
04:25They continue in the same way.
04:27So this is something for me very good.
04:31Okay.
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