Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca expressed his happiness with Chelsea’s performance against Everton, particularly praising the team for keeping a clean sheet. He also acknowledged Wesley Fofana’s display during the match, noting that he had mentioned last year how important Fofana is to the team Softfootball reports.
Maresca emphasized that he did not want to make excuses, but unfortunately, Fofana had previously been sidelined due to injury, which had affected both his performance and the team’s. Now, however, Fofana is “on fire,” he added.
Maresca further stressed that football is not about the performance of a single player, but about the team as a whole. He commended the overall pressing by João Pedro and Garnacho, describing it as excellent.
When asked about Malo Gusto’s performance, he shared the following:
Goal assist, but defensively too absolutely was complete performance for for from Malo.
This also acknowledges Malo Gusto’s impact in Chelsea’s 2-0 win against Everton. Maresca highlighted Cole Palmer as Chelsea’s standout player, noting that unfortunately, due to injuries, he had only featured in 5 of 16 Premier League matches. Now back, Maresca hopes to keep Palmer fit and explained that the match strategy was to limit him to a maximum of one hour on the pitch.
Chelsea Football Club has posted the full post-match interview on their YouTube channel. Watch it below:
In general, he also praised Everton’s performance, noting that they gave Chelsea a tough challenge, especially since they were just one point behind before the match. These were his statements:
Yeah, they are they were in very good run. Uh they were just one points less than us. Uh they were winning games.
They are strong defensively strong. They are a good team. They are you know Gish Keenan D. They have a good player at front and the pervalance was very good.
Maresca, however, remained positive, stating that regardless of how competitive the table is and how close the clubs are, he believes Chelsea will continue to win more games as the season progresses.
