2 hours ago
1
Chelsea caput manager Enzo Maresca admits helium was ‘afraid’ of Reece James and Romeo Lavia getting injured successful Sunday’s 2-1 decision to Liverpool astatine Anfield.
Mohamed Salah produced a extremity and assist arsenic Arne Slot’s broadside secured each 3 points against the Blues to determination backmost to the apical of the Premier League table.
Chelsea skipper James was handed a commencement against the Reds, with the England planetary overcoming wounded issues to marque his archetypal quality of the season.
Lavia was besides named successful the XI and Maresca was quizzed successful his post-match property league arsenic to wherefore helium substituted some players earlier the hr mark.
‘For James and Romeo, it was 45 minutes to 1 hr maximum,’ Maresca said.
‘I was a spot acrophobic to springiness them much minutes connected the pitch. decided to alteration them aft 50, 55 minutes.’
Speaking much mostly astir Chelsea’s defeat, the Italian brag told the BBC: ‘I deliberation galore bully things astir the performance.
‘Overall it was precise good, to travel to this stadium against this squad and predominate astir of the crippled is not easy.
‘If we were capable to support the 1-1 for longer past astir apt the effect would person been different.
‘My volition was to travel present and play the mode we are grooming each time and that was clear.’
Quizzed astir the show of his goalkeeper Robert Sanchez, Maresca added: ‘I’m precise blessed with Robert, he’s doing fantastic with us.
‘Not lone successful gathering from the backmost but besides making saves.’
Chelsea are backmost successful enactment connected Thursday with a travel to Greek broadside Panathinaikos successful the Conference League.
MORE : Pep Guardiola confirms treble Man City wounded stroke aft arguable winner
This tract is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
.png "indianexpress.")
.png "khaleejtimes")
.png "arabnews")
.png "gulfnews"){kind=logo}
English (US) · 
Hindi (IN) ·