Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca was pleased his side have learned to win dirty. And admitted they made a mistake by making a late substitution as they edged past Tottenham Hotspur 1-0. The
Blues took the lead through Enzo Fernandez to move above Manchester City in the opening 50 minutes to climb back into the top four. “
I just told the players we don’t work every day to win like this
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“We don’t want to play like in the last 10 minutes. In terms of giving the opposition possession and waiting for them to attack. “
But if you want to be a real team you have to learn how to play like that to win dirty. “
Overall, for the whole 90 minutes and into stoppage time we controlled the game, we created chances and deserved to win.”
Key striker Nicholas Jackson returned to the starting line-up and Maresca explained the change in formation: “Our formation depends on the opponent. We cannot use the same formation. The Spurs and Leicester were different. “
Today we played longer balls. Because of the way Spurs defended and having Jackson back, when he was there, we were a different team.” In
injury time, Maresca took off Fernandez and Cole Palmer, who were involved in the goal, to send on Tosin Adarabioyo and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall to keep the score, which he admitted was a mistake:
“I’ll be honest, it was my mistake. I made the substitution before I saw the stoppage time sign and when I saw 12 minutes of added time, I thought I made a quick substitution. Luckily, we still won and finished the game happily.”