Maresca on Chelsea's 2-1 defeat Liverpool

Maresca on Chelsea's 2-1 defeat Liverpool  20/10/2024  Anfield Stadium, Liverpool, UK

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00:00Okay, good evening. Please raise your hand if you'd like to ask a question. We'll get

00:20around as many as possible. Who would like to get us started? Nobody?

00:27What did you make of Chelsea's performance in the first half to Senebier Pelle?

00:40I think the performance was very good. I just said that we don't like losing games, we don't

00:49like to drop points, but if you have to decide the way, if you have to choose the way, probably

00:54this is the way. I've been in this stadium many times, and to see Liverpool in their

01:03side for a long time, it's not easy. I think overall we controlled the game, and for the

01:12most part of the game we dominated the game. But we lost, we are not happy, we don't like

01:19it, but as I said, the performance on the ball and off the ball was very good.

01:24As well as Chelsea played today and played for most of the season, is the frustration

01:33the amount of, I'd say, sloppy goals or gifted goals that you're conceding?

01:39No, we conceded two goals. The first is a penalty, it can happen. And the second goal,

01:45in the way we conceded the second goal, we already avoid, we were just mentioned now,

01:51we already avoid this season five or six goals because of the behaviour of the line, but

01:56sometimes you also concede. But to come here in this stadium against this team and thinking

02:05that you are not going to concede chances or momentum, it's almost impossible because

02:09of the environment, because of the team, for many reasons. But as I said, I think for the

02:15most part of the game we controlled very well, and we have to be proud of this and at the

02:21same time a bit upset because we don't like losing games.

02:26Do you need to work on it though, because it is only two clean sheets in eight games,

02:32and perhaps you should have more points?

02:35No, for sure we need to work not only for the clean sheet, we need to work on many things,

02:41but if you see the goal we scored and the goal we conceded, probably the goal we scored

02:47we are the first, second or third best, and the goal we conceded we are the third or the

02:54fourth conceding goal. So I think for sure we can do many, many things better, no doubt,

03:03but at the same time we need to understand that game after game, for sure, even the defensive

03:11line is getting better.

03:14Is that a planned substitution?

03:19No, for him and for Romeo the idea was 45 minutes, one hour maximum, but I was a bit

03:27afraid to keep them more minutes inside the pitch, so I decided to change both of them

03:33after 50 minutes, 55 minutes.

03:37Enzo, you are not unhappy about any of the decisions today, there were a few controversial

03:44ones and debatable ones, but you seem quite relaxed, you seem quite happy with everything.

03:48No, no, I am relaxed and I am not happy because we lost, but I am relaxed and I am happy because

03:58of the performance of the team. Then I think the decision from the referee has been clear

04:05for you, has been clear for me and has been clear probably for all of you, but the referee

04:10is there to take decisions and sometimes they are right, sometimes they are wrong.

04:18OK, we'll end it there.

04:19Nothing to say.

04:20Thank you everyone.