Maresca on Chelsea's 2-0 Fulham win

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Maresca on Chelsea's 2-0 Fulham win  30/08/2025  Stamford Bridge, London, UK

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00:00Okay, who wants to get us under way?

00:29Anybody?

00:30Yep, in the front, please.

00:32What's the latest with Liam Dillap's injury and will his injury now push him back into

00:38the franco market considering that Christopher and Kunku and Nicholas Jackson left the club

00:43today?

00:44Liam injury doesn't look good in terms of he was full speed, arm strength, so that required

00:53like always weeks, and then in terms of another striker, to be honest, which has finished

01:00the game from the changing room I came here for the press conference, so now after when

01:06we finish, we're going to sit and we see if we take any decision.

01:13I just said finish the game, come here, no idea, we're going to sit now and we see serious,

01:29honest, I don't have any idea.

01:30Do you think you have enough striking options because you have obviously Dillap, you have

01:36Jean-Pedro, you're doing really well as well, do you think you have enough with the two options

01:41you have?

01:42When you have two strikers it's enough.

01:44When one of them is injury for different weeks, probably it's not enough.

01:48Today we play more than one hour with Tariq, that he did brilliant.

01:55The last game he played as a nine was Man United at home last year, and again, we try to use

02:01a different solution.

02:02If you remember last year we used Pedro in some games as a nine, it's because we are always

02:07looking for solution, but for sure when you have two proper nine, it's enough.

02:12Jacob?

02:13I said before the season starts, but unfortunately I don't have any answer because it's the first

02:30time that you have a competition during the summer, so you don't know, I don't know, no

02:35me, no sports science, no any doctor can help us to say we're going to have this problem

02:41or this problem, we don't know, it's something new and unfortunately happened.

02:45I said yesterday in the press conference, I think it's not random that Levi, Moy, Cole,

02:50today Liam, it's where it is.

02:53James?

02:54Can I ask you about those VAR thoughts, how would you feel if those went against your team?

03:00I just said, I review both action.

03:06From my point of view, it's quite clear that the first one, one of their players kicked

03:11our player, Trev, and the second one is quite clear that it's on board.

03:15Now, I can understand that from their point of view, it can be no foul, but I think it's

03:21quite clear that it's foul and then it's penalty.

03:25In the middle, please.

03:26I ask, what do you find in your position, what do you think in the first season and

03:31third play, if you have to get away from?

03:35I think the one that they win the Premier League the year before, they are always the

03:42one that, they are the favourite one.

03:45And then again, Arsenal is there, City is there, Tottenham I think will be also there, and you

03:51have always some team that they can be surprised, like last year, for instance, Nottingham.

03:56So, we'll be in the same way like every season.

03:59David?

04:00Seven points in three games, are you happy with the way your team is playing and what

04:08you don't mind about the team so far?

04:10I'm very happy, first of all, as you said, because three games, seven points, it's important.

04:15I'm very happy in general.

04:18Today I was not happy after the first half.

04:22The reason why is because we didn't play on the ball in the way we prepared the game.

04:27And we were not good enough in second ball and duels.

04:32While second half, I think we were very good on the ball and we were very, very good in

04:37second ball and duels.

04:38And I think we deserve to win the game.

04:41We dominated the second half.

04:43And against this team, if you are not strong enough, you struggle.

04:47Peter?

04:48Hi Enzo.

04:49Can I just check about Enzo Fernandez?

04:50At half time, he seemed quite upset.

04:53Something must have annoyed him.

04:55He sort of stormed off with his arm band and went down the tunnel.

04:58What happened there?

05:00Enzo is a club World Cup winner.

05:06It's World Cup winner.

05:10And I think probably he's the only player in the world to win both titles.

05:14And when he's not good enough, he can recognize.

05:16And probably he was upset for that because first half, I think he was not good enough.

05:20Then second half, he was, like the rest, brilliant.

05:23So probably the reason why he was not happy is because he can see that he was not good enough.

05:29And second half, I think, was brilliant.

05:31But at the end of the game, they were all dancing, all celebrating the win.

05:36So Enzo was there and was happy.

05:39Andy?

05:40Sorry.

05:41Hi Enzo.

05:42I was just going to follow up on that, actually, as well.

05:43Because...

05:44He's back.

05:45Yeah, I'm back now.

05:46Your worst nightmare has come true.

05:50I asked days ago.

05:52He said, hey.

05:53Sorry about that.

05:54I'll come back.

05:55It was just with the Enzo incident.

05:57He seemed to be particularly pointing at one of your coaches, Marcos Alvarez, I think.

06:02And there was finger wagging going on.

06:04Which made me think it's not about the performance.

06:06It was about the performance he'd be having a go at the players.

06:09So nothing you can...

06:11No idea.

06:12Probably if you see when we scored with João, I immediately left the bench.

06:18Because I was more worried to improve second half.

06:20So I came back in the changing room to prepare the tactical board and everything.

06:25So I didn't see nothing.

06:26If you see when João scored, I left and I was already inside.

06:29So I didn't see nothing.

06:30I will ask now.

06:32But I'm more...

06:33I'm not worried about Enzo's reaction.

06:36I'm more happy about the win and second half.

06:39We need to finish off because Marco Silva's waiting.

06:41So Dom, last question, please.

06:43Enzo, could you speak a little bit about Tosin and Trevor?

06:46Because it feels like since he lost to Levi,

06:48and I know that Josh made one since he lost to Levi,

06:51I thought that they've been really good in both matches individually

06:54but also in terms of partnership together as well.

06:57And Josh also was very good against Palace.

07:00He needs to make mistakes to improve.

07:05Against Palace, the goal that we conceded from free kick,

07:08the one that the referee disallowed is from Josh that lost the ball.

07:11But it's part of the process if we want to build him and improve him.

07:15And we are happy with Josh.

07:17Tosin is doing fantastic from last season.

07:19Trev exactly the same since come back in January.

07:21And we have now finally Wes back.

07:24That is another one that can help us.

07:26After the international break,

07:27probably we can have also been one.

07:29So we see.

07:30Thanks, guys.

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