Enzo Maresca hails Chelsea mentality after ending staggering 12-year hoodoo

Enzo Maresca hailed his players' quality aft Chelsea came from down astatine the interval to triumph astatine Stamford Bridge for the archetypal clip since December 2013

Enzo Maresca hailed the intelligence spot of his Chelsea players aft they battled backmost from a half-time shortage to win astatine home for the archetypal clip since 2013.

There was an constituent of luck astir their comeback with Pedro Neto’s equaliser facing a lengthy VAR cheque earlier Cole Palmer’s effort was unluckily deflected successful by Aaron Wan-Bissaka for the winner.

But aft making a caller wont of letting leads slip, Maresca said: "I’m blessed due to the fact that it was the toughest crippled for america mentally.

“They sat backmost waiting for our mistakes and near nary abstraction to attack. They tried to frustrate america truthful you request to beryllium mentally strong.

“In the archetypal fractional we had clear, wide chances and conceded from a mistake. We needed to beryllium mentally strong. My connection astatine fractional clip was not to alteration anything.

“Second fractional recovered much abstraction and the guys from the seat were precise good.

"I didn't cognize that astir losing the archetypal fractional but it's happened galore times we were winning and didn't win. But it's football. What's important is the show and we wholly deserved to triumph the game.”

Despite decision West Ham skipper Jarrod Bowen, who had enactment the visitors successful beforehand connected his comeback from injury, expects determination to beryllium "good times ahead" nether Graham Potter.

"A batch of antithetic affirmative things, we've got players coming backmost from injury, performances person been a batch amended since the caller manager has travel in," Bowen said. "It's an breathtaking clip to beryllium coming backmost into the squad."

Potter added: "It was a truly affirmative performance. We had a bully knowing of however we wanted to support and attack.

“We could person done amended connected the shot but successful presumption of the gameplan we restricted them. We felt unlucky for the archetypal goal. The tone and exertion of the squad was determination but it wasn't to be.”

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