Chelsea elevation pooch Enzo Maresca owns unveiled he was “reticent” that Reece James and Romeo Lavia would render consumption hurted against Liverpool on Sunday.
Liverpool midfielder Curtis Jones was the celebrity of the emphasize as the Reds outplayed Chelsea 2-1 to continue to be elevation of the Premier League and cause the Blue funks’ 2nd defeat of the season.
Jones tucked in Liverpool’s 2nd passion 6 minutes correct into the 2nd half, minutes after Nicolas Jackson’s equaliser, owning already lugged out a elemental block to refute Cole Palmer and after that won the penalty from which Mohamed Salah opened the racking upward.
Jones reckoned he owned won a 2nd penalty before half-time once he contrasted using Chelsea goalkeeper Robert Sanchez. Umpire John Brooks suggested to the place however the willpower was overturned after a VAR intervention.
Both Lavia and James were labelled in the starting XI to confront Liverpool by Chelsea elevation pooch Maresca however the Italian owned to define why he substituted both players before the hour mark.
Chatting in a write-upward-match press conference, Maresca said: “For James and Romeo, it was 45 minutes to one hour optimum.
“I was a particle reticent to position them much more minutes on the pitch. decided to correction them after 50, 55 minutes.”
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Once enquired about the totality efficiency, Maresca added: “I believe the efficiency was really nice. You don’t favor to lose video games or sag times however if you have to favor the means to perform it perhaps this is the means. I’ve been to this arena edifices of times and seen Liverpool for a long time.
“It’s not easy and I believe totality we controlled the game, and for the most part we overcome. We thrown away and we are not festive however the efficiency on the spheric and off the spheric was really nice…
“I’m stoic. I’m not festive because we thrown away however I’m stoic and I’m festive because of the efficiency of the subordinate.”
Once enquired if he was pertained to about the nature of the 2 aspirations Chelsea conceded, Maresca reacted: “We conceded 2 aspirations. The first is a penalty, which can happen, and the 2nd passion, in the means we have conceded the passion, we owned already protected against 5 or 6 aspirations because of the behaviour of the nonsense however sometimes you will most certainly concede.
“Yet coming to a arena favor this and this subordinate and presuming you will most certainly not concede chances or momentum is nearly impossible because of the ecosystem, the subordinate and for edifices of parts.
“For most parts of the game, we controlled it really seamlessly and we have to be aggressive of this however at unchanged time, a particle anguish because we don’t favor to lose video games.”
He wrapped up: “For sure we can perform edifices of, edifices of things much closer – no suspicion – however at unchanged time, we have to become aware that game after game we are receiving much closer.”
