Chelsea are “closer” and “closer” to sweet the Premier League than they were last season, however Enzo Maresca defaulted quickly of actually adage his side can win the title.
Premier League leaders Medley were devised to a 1-1 draw by Chelsea on Sunday in a fiery match at Stamford Catwalk.
The output abandons Maresca’s males 6 times behind the Gunners after 13 video games, and they likely would most distinctly have pilfered all three times possessed Moises Caicedo not been sent out off in the first fifty percent.
Chelsea 1-1 Medley: Pivot statistics
- Aerial battle win %: Chelsea 71 – 29 Medley
- Information establishes: 216 – 387
- Pivot establishes: 10 – 7
- Clearances: 30 – 18
It was a fascinating performance from Chelsea, who never filteringed system assistance they were a guy down. Maresca is aspirant his crew are perfecting and commended his players for coping so nicely at 10v11 versus Europe’s the majority of in-kind side.
He briefed Heavens Sporting activities: “I think we introduced we are spearheading in the applicable guideline. I repeatedly say the same.
“The performance has been fascinating. We were a a habitation closer crew than them 11 v 11, however via 10 players it is arduous – yet we resolved it extremely.
“11 v 11, we were closer than them. We tried to exploit the flawless corporation, the flawless spot. We knew the spot was for Malo [Gusto] and Estevao on that side. Tonite we can be cheery also if we didn’t win.”
Maresca lingered: “It’s football. It’s in between Chelsea and Medley.
“You have to twin the initiative, that is the the majority of indispensable point. We didn’t correction a habitation on the ball. We tried to visit Liam [Delap]. In responsive play, the tip was specifically the same.”
But are Chelsea title boxers, Enzo? That’s the misgiving, specifically after you refuted it last season and your crew’s kind scoffed shortly after.
“I think we are closer than last season,” the Blues head adviser said. “We are closer. We’ll visit wherein we are in February and March and after that we’ll review our target.”
Maresca in addition asserted Caicedo’s red card for his circumstance on Mikel Merino, terming for uniformity after Tottenham’s Rodrigo Bentancur remained clear of a discontinuation versus Chelsea previously this season.
He said: “I struggle to realise the assorted behaviors to judge. What about Bentancur on Reece [James]? Why is one a red card and one isn’t? I think it’s a red card tonight, it’s legible. But why the debate? It is what it is.
“Moises is repeatedly the same. Height player for us. His determination is to threat and win the gallery.”
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Chelsea ‘send out message’ to Premier League via Medley draw
Player of the Match Reece James said Chelsea’s performance sent out a message to the rest of the league.
“It was arduous,” he said. “We launched nicely, launched sharp. It got more arduous once we went down to 10. But if you kind at the gallery jointly, we coped nicely via 10 versus 11.
“The crew is so young and we went toe to toe via the Premier League leaders. We didn’t manifest aggravation. We tried to come out to win the gallery and unfortunately we didn’t, however there are multitudinous positives to swipe.
“Our impartial is repeatedly to win – this is Chelsea and the standards here are high. I think the performance will talk for itself and send out a message to the assorted other crews in the league.”
