Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca reacts to a disappointing 2-1 loss to Man Utd

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Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca lost their 2-1 defeat to Manchester United Old Trafford, Manchester, UK.  20/09/2025

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00:00Okay, who'd like to get us on the way? Sam?

00:20Hello Enzo. What are your feelings on that and the way the game turned?

00:26Did you feel you had to change again after all those early substitutions?

00:36For me personally, it's quite easy in terms of after three or four minutes, all Trafford

00:43away, red card, become difficult, not only for Chelsea, I think it became difficult for

00:49any club. For sure we could start the game better. Then the red card gave us the chance

01:02to come back in the game. I think in the second half we scored one, another one disallowed,

01:07we had two, three moments inside the box, but all the game changed after the red card,

01:15all the plan and everything, going in the bin. I mean, it doesn't exist anymore.

01:22What about Cole? Is he injured or was that...

01:24Cole, he tried this morning. He had a test this morning to play this game. He was not 100%

01:31fit. He made fantastic effort to play this game, but it was not 100%.

01:38Simon?

01:40Can you just explain why you chose to take both rules off, particularly Pedro Neto,

01:46because I thought he might be able to provide an out-ball with his pace, and why did he bring

01:50Garnaccio one?

01:52The reason why we changed Pedro and Esteva was because they attack with five players

01:57always, and we defend with four, and we can defend with four when we are 11-11. But

02:0311 against 10, I think we need to defend all the whiff, you know, so we decided to go with

02:09the back five. This is the reason why. And then the other one, Garnaccio, he was ready

02:17to go inside, but then Wes asked for the change, because he was tired after a long time. So

02:24we changed and we decided to go for Malo, but the idea was to give Garnaccio minutes.

02:30So it was nothing to do with the reception you came from the men?

02:33No, no, no, no. Also because he was ready, I sent him for warm-up and he was ready to go

02:39inside, but then Wes asked for change, so we decided to go with Malo.

02:43Is there any worries about Kopan's fitness longer term because he's kind of had the injury

02:49on and off and on and off?

02:50Yeah, it's a problem that is already a long time for him, it's growing. Again, he did this

02:56morning a test, he wants to play this game for the team to be close, so the effort has been

03:02huge from him, but then after 20 minutes he starts to feel something, so we decided to change

03:08him.

03:09I just wondered where was Josh's action from?

03:12No, Josh is just because we had on the bench tossing, Malo was on the bench also, we had

03:19already two defenders, so it was just for that, not for any other reason.

03:24Simon.

03:25I realise it's a very quick decision that the goalkeeper's got to make there, but on the

03:31sideline, would you have preferred him not to have fouled a player and given a goal away

03:36and you're one down with eleven men rather than ten?

03:39Probably it's the better, it's the best solution because we have still 95 minutes to play.

03:46I think even Robert is aware of that. But also it's difficult because he has to take a decision

03:53in one second, two seconds, so it's difficult. But for sure if you ask me, I prefer to be

03:58one is down after three minutes, then one player down after three minutes.

04:05No more questions? Alright, thanks guys.

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