Chelsea manager, Enzo Maresca has come out to issue a strong message to his players after a frustrating goalless draw against Everton. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, it was always clear that Chelsea would struggle to create chances against Everton, but he was very pleased with how his team defended at the Goodison Park.
Maresca added that his players will have to deal with the result and learn to be more clinical in front of goal.
His words, “I was quite worried about this game. It’s a tricky game, tricky stadium, tricky team. They are defensively top. You struggle to create chances against them. You have to deal with it and learn to play different games. Long balls, second balls, channels, set pieces. Football is not only about how good we play on the ball. It’s also about how you defend and deal with that. I’m very proud today.
Today’s game was a completely different game compared to the rest. You have to learn. It’s not easy but the way they showed togetherness has been brilliant today.
In this kind of games, knowing you aren’t going to create many chances, you have to be clinical. In the first half, we had Nico one-on-one with the ’keeper, the post from Nico, another two or three chances inside the box. If you are able to be clinical there and score the game probably becomes completely different but until then you’re going to struggle.”
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Chelsea Football Club is an English professional football club based in Fulham, West London. Founded in 1905, they play their home games at Stamford Bridge.
The club competes in the Premier League, the top division of English football. They won their first major honour, the League championship, in 1955. The club won the FA Cup for the first time in 1970, their first European honour, the Cup Winners’ Cup, in 1971, and became the third English club to win the Club World Cup in 2022.
On 7 May 2022, Chelsea confirmed that terms have been agreed for a new ownership group, led by Todd Boehly, Clearlake Capital, Mark Walter and Hansjörg Wyss, to acquire the club. The group was later known as BlueCo.
The UK government approved the £4.25bn takeover, ending Abramovich’s 19-year ownership of the club. Bruce Buck, who served as chairman since 2003, was replaced by Boehly, while long-serving club director and de facto sporting director Marina Granovskaia left, as did Petr Čech from the role of technical and performance advisor.
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