Maresca Reacts to Another Chelsea Red Card, Chalobah’s Black Eye and Hard-Fought Draw

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Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca Reacts to Another Chelsea Red Card, Chalobah’s Black Eye and Hard-Fought Draw  30/11/2025  Stamford Bridge, London, UK

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00:00What was your assessment of your team's performance and results?

00:08I think sometimes you have to be happy, even with one point.

00:14For sure, the target was to win the game.

00:18Again, 11-11, I think we were a better team than them.

00:22We managed the game, we controlled the game, we created chances,

00:25and we didn't concede nothing.

00:27And then the red card changed a little bit the dynamic,

00:30but even with that, I think the way the players dealt with that has been outstanding.

00:35Jacob?

00:36You said in October, after the United and Brighton games,

00:41one of the things that you wanted to learn how to do better

00:44was how to react after it went to ten men.

00:47Today it felt like it was totally different.

00:50The decisions were very brave, no real change after the red card.

00:55Is that something that you're conscious of today?

00:58I think, again, Man United game, the change was because Man United attack with five players.

01:04They attack in a different way compared to Arsenal.

01:07So I know that most of the time you judge because of the result.

01:13We changed, we lost, so it was a bad change tonight.

01:16But every time we do something, it's because in that moment we consider that it's the right thing to do.

01:23And then sometimes it works, sometimes not.

01:25But for sure the way the players dealt with the players, the effort, I told them half the time,

01:32we need to double the effort, and they were outstanding.

01:36Simon.

01:37Hi.

01:38Sorry.

01:39Two-fold question for me.

01:41On one hand, how key you took that plan 10, mate,

01:45how key though is Sanchez in Senators keeping that collective going,

01:51and secondly, Rhys James, another phenomenal performance.

01:54Can he do that again on Wednesday night without a second?

01:57No.

01:58No.

01:59No.

02:00The reality is no.

02:04Robert was very good.

02:06When you are with 10 players against Arsenal, for sure if you want to take a point or win the game,

02:15you need some special performance like Robert, like Rhys as you said.

02:20So we are very happy with the Robert performance.

02:23Rhys now is serious.

02:25His performance has been fantastic.

02:27Top.

02:28Now we have game on Wednesday.

02:31For him, you know, very good that we need to manage him.

02:34We need to control.

02:35We need to, you know, control a little bit his situation.

02:40But it was very good tonight.

02:43Nizal.

02:44Hi, Nizal.

02:45I wanted to ask you about, Rhys James said in his interview after the match,

02:48he thought it could have been 10 versus 10.

02:51And I wondered if you thought maybe here on the campaign for the good center,

02:54he seems to have a shallow battle.

02:57Yeah.

02:58I think it's, I think it's, Rhys is right.

03:03But they decide.

03:04I just said there, they asked me about Moy red card.

03:07It's a red card.

03:08But why Bentancourt against Rhys was not a red card?

03:12Spurs away.

03:13Spurs away.

03:14So us, as a manager, we struggle to understand why they judge in a different way.

03:19Moy it's a red card.

03:20Yes.

03:21Bentancourt is a red card.

03:22Yes.

03:23Why they don't give them a red card?

03:24So it's just that that we struggle to understand.

03:26Then it's a red card.

03:27The reality is that it's a red card.

03:29But why they judge in a different way?

03:31And the Trevor one, I asked the referee, he said to me that it was not elbow.

03:35So this is what they said.

03:37Tell about the black eye.

03:38Yes.

03:39Yes.

03:40Black eye is here like this.

03:41He was with dice half time.

03:43He was with dice.

03:44But they judge in a different way.

03:46David?

03:47The way you play today.

03:50Which is the thing you almost sparked on?

03:53For sure the effort of the players.

03:56Arsenal, they are top of Premier League, top of Champions League.

03:59Best defender in the Premier League.

04:00Probably best defender in the Champions League.

04:02So in this moment, they are the best team.

04:05And I think 11 by 11, we were better than them.

04:08And then with 10 players, again, changed the dynamic.

04:11So the effort from the players has been outstanding.

04:14Peter?

04:15Hi, Enzo.

04:16Do you think the performance level today, perhaps even more so,

04:19with 10 men against Arsenal,

04:22that everyone is seeing as the front runners for the league,

04:24has that changed your perception of your own team

04:26and where they are at at the moment?

04:28I think, once again, sometimes I think I'm a little bit

04:31bored, but bored in terms of boring, you know.

04:35I have to say, again, the same.

04:37If in February, March, we are where we are now,

04:40we're going to be for title.

04:42But we are still, you know, end of November, December.

04:45Now we have Leeds away Wednesday.

04:48It's a very difficult game.

04:49So you need to be there every time, every time, every time.

04:52But for sure, you know, Arsenal tonight, Barcelona the other day,

04:56Liverpool, PSG, or these kind of games, for sure,

05:01they give to the players, you know, the confidence to grow

05:04and to believe.

05:05Okay, thank you, guys.

05:10Okay.

05:11Okay.

05:13Let's go ahead.

05:14Okay.

05:15Let's go ahead.

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