Enzo Maresca on Chelseaโs 1-0 win over Leicester City [H] in the Premier League:
๐ โIโm very happy.
โThe main reason is when we prepare for a game, we watch as many games as possible, and we watched almost every Leicester game under Ruud. They always played in a line of four.
โBut they arrive here and it is a line of five; they change completely their plan. So all the training sessions we have done to prepare for this game go in the rubbish.
โYou need a new plan. So, before the warm-up, we had to give the players a new plan and this is why I was so happy because the way the players adapted โ something from the outside you maybe donโt see โ was top, fantastic.โ
โThe plan was Marc Cucurella playing next to Moi Caicedo as a midfielder, so three at the back with Cucu next to Moi.
โBut when we saw them with a five, we needed to attack with six. So Cucu was higher on the left, Christo (Nkunku) came into the pocket, and Cole (Palmer), Enzo (Fernandez) and Pedro (Neto) were on the other side.
โThe pressing was also completely different because you need to change that, but the way the players adapted was top. Leicester came here to surprise us, like Copenhagen [on Thursday night in the Conference League], but the players have been so good at [adatpting] to that.โ
โItโs very easy: Cole, yesterday, didnโt train and during the night, he didnโt feel well. The reason why he didnโt train yesterday is because he didnโt feel well. This morning, he woke up and he asked me, โI want to be on the pitch because I want to help this team, this club to play Champions League.
โSo in the last two days, he was completely out. Fever, is it something I can say in English? Diarrhoea. In the last 48 hours, he didnโt train with the fever and this bad feeling. This morning, he asked to play the game and this shows how these players want to bring the club where it belongs to.โ
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