Maresca on Chelsea booking quarter final conference league spot with 3-1 aggregate win over Copenhagen
13/03/2025
Stamford Bridge, London, UK
13/03/2025
Stamford Bridge, London, UK
Category
🥇
SportsTranscript
00:00David, yeah, grazie.
00:28I think first leg and second half were quite similar. The first leg we played in Denmark,
00:47first half we struggled, second half we were much better. The reason why is because we
00:51planned both games that way. The first game there we tried to analyse a little bit the
00:56first half and then to push a little bit in the second half in case we need it. Because
01:01we won there we prepared the game exactly the same way tonight. First half we analysed,
01:06we see what we need to improve. First half we changed the structure, we changed Joshua
01:11Chipong not because he was not doing well, he was doing very good. First time that he
01:16was doing a different kind of job, he was doing for me very, very good. But we changed
01:22him because we needed to change the structure. We were attacking with the five, we need to
01:26attack with six players and second half I think was much better.
01:29You said you needed to win this year to start. You know I won four in a row, three games
01:40you didn't concede a goal. Are you happy with the progress you guys have made?
01:44Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. I think in terms of results we won the last game in a row.
01:50We are three clean sheets as you said so it's very important. Now we have the last effort
01:54on Sunday. Hopefully we can finish good before the international break. And then as I said
02:00yesterday after the international break we can have back also Nico, Noni so we can go
02:05for the final sprint. But for sure the last four games they have been good in terms of
02:11results because we are quarter-final conference, we are fourth in the league so we are there.
02:18Now we just need to finish in the best way.
02:24You said in the build-up to this game that you took a bit of acclimatisation and maybe
02:32wasn't happy with his game time. How pleased are you to see him score and likely see him
02:38feature more in the Premier League between now and the end of the season?
02:40I'm very happy for Keenan. He's now much, much better compared to the start of the season
02:47probably because he's understanding his position, his role. He's working every day very good
02:52in the training session even if for the ones that they don't get minutes in the Premier
02:56League or in official games it's not easy to work every day with the same intention
03:02and he's working fantastic. And tonight he showed how important he can be for us and
03:08hopefully as you said he can be even more important from now on.
03:22Yes, for these guys.