Every word Enzo Maresca said on Diogo Jota, Pedro Neto, Romeo Lavia injury, Joao Pedro transfer

Enzo Maresca has conscionable completed his pre-match property league up of Chelsea's FIFA Club World Cup quarter-final clash with Palmeiras connected Friday evening.

The Blues are backmost successful Philadelphia, having already played successful the metropolis doubly during this competition, and are looking to publication a travel to New York for the semi-final. Maresca conducted his property league connected Thursday evening wherever the Chelsea caput manager looked up to his side's important clash. Here is each connection the Italian said:

I conscionable wanted to inquire you astir the unfortunate and superior quality astir Diogo Jota and his household arsenic well, and conscionable however Pedro Neto's taken it arsenic well.

Yeah, it's a precise bittersweet day. I conflict to find words due to the fact that it's precise difficult. You know, the feeling that you are, that you consciousness a small bit, you know, helpless successful this benignant of situation, and the lone happening I tin say, you know, each my emotion to, you know, his family, the radical that successful this moment, it's a large calamity for them. And past successful presumption of Pedro, he's precise sad, astir apt much than sad, but we are besides adjacent to Pedro to enactment him successful this moment.

Just to travel up connected Pedro, has the nine fixed him compassionate leave? Do you deliberation he's successful the close framework of caput to play tomorrow?

It's wholly Pedro's decision. I had a chat this greeting with Pedro. We enactment him. Any determination helium volition instrumentality is the close one, and we are going to enactment him successful immoderate case. So it doesn't substance if we'll beryllium successful the transportation oregon not. Tomorrow, we'll spot however helium is feeling tomorrow. But successful immoderate case, we're gonna enactment him.

On Estevao Willian, bash you archer your players to spell casual connected him fixed helium is going to beryllium their teammate successful a mates of weeks?

When we hole games, we are utilized to hole games reasoning astir the team, not the players that they are connected the different side. And we person done precisely the aforesaid successful this game. So we hole the crippled against Palmeiras, not against Estevao. In this moment, helium is simply a Palmeiras subordinate that is going to play against Chelsea tomorrow. So we don't attraction if successful the aboriginal helium volition beryllium with america erstwhile this contention is finished. The lone happening we are focused connected is to bash our champion to effort to bushed Palmeiras and not to bushed Estevao. Just deliberation astir them arsenic a team.

How bash you consciousness present astir this competition? And however bash you consciousness astir playing against a broadside similar Palmeiras that finds this contention so, truthful special?

Yeah, this contention is peculiar for Palmeiras and besides for us. Since we start, I said that we are blessed to beryllium here. We are grateful to beryllium here. But astatine the aforesaid time, I said much things. And the crushed wherefore we were blessed to triumph against Benfica is due to the fact that we enactment each day, not conscionable to person fun. We enactment each time to triumph games. So the crushed wherefore we were blessed is due to the fact that astatine the end, we bushed Benfica. And contiguous we are present and time we tin play a game, a bully game, that hopefully we tin proceed and we tin bushed Palmeiras.

Is Romeo Lavia?

And if not, what the occupation is? Romeo, not definite helium tin beryllium fit. We're gonna effort tomorrow. He had tiny problems astatine the extremity of the past crippled against Benfica. And it's conscionable a musculus problem. And arsenic I said, time we spot if he's fit. Otherwise, we're gonna find a antithetic solution due to the fact that Moi [Caicedo] is suspended also. So we request to find immoderate antithetic solution.

How large of a aboriginal does Estevao person astatine Chelsea?

I ne'er speech with Estevao since I joined Chelsea. I met his household astatine grooming ground. Nice family, fantastic family. But arsenic I said, we commencement to speech astir the aboriginal erstwhile this contention is finished. Now is not the infinitesimal to speech astir the future, Estevao's future. Everyone knows that this is simply a talented player, but successful this infinitesimal is Palmeiras player. And we are present to play the crippled against Palmeiras time and hopefully we tin win.

Has the Club World Cup made you respect Brazilian shot more?

We ever respect Brazilian football. We don't request this tourney to respect Brazilian football. At slightest maine personally, I ever respect Brazilian shot due to the fact that it's 1 of the champion country, each the champion state successful the satellite successful presumption of quality, successful presumption of football. So I truly respect Brazil. I don't request this contention to respect Brazilian football. They amusement each crippled present successful this contention however bully they are. And they're going to proceed besides aft this competition.

You played Cole Palmer much connected the near successful the past game. What did you larn from playing adjacent much connected that broadside and volition we beryllium seeing that again tomorrow?

Yeah, Cole tin play successful some sides. He was playing against Benfica successful the near pocket. He utilized to play successful the close pocket. He conscionable changed close and left. But during the play helium played already antithetic games successful the near pocket. I retrieve the crippled astatine location against Newcastle, I think. He played successful the near pouch against Benfica. He started a small spot much wide than to travel wrong successful the pocket. But Cole's presumption was precisely the aforesaid presumption that he's playing each season. The lone quality that helium was successful the near broadside than the close side.

Thoughts connected Enzo Fernandez's play truthful far?

Very, precise good. Very good. If we execute what we execute and if we are wherever we are, it's besides due to the fact that Enzo, the mode helium has done during the season, I said already that astatine the opening helium struggled a small bit. He was not adjacent playing games against Liverpool distant oregon Arsenal astatine location oregon Man Utd away. He was connected the bench. But helium was moving precise good and present he's 1 of the main players.

There's a connection earlier contiguous from Dortmund confirming a woody betwixt the clubs has been agreed for Jamie Gittens. Can you update from Chelsea's constituent of presumption and possibly remark connected the subordinate you're astir to sign?

I don't person immoderate update to beryllium honest. I was connected the alert watching the Palmeiras crippled again. I don't know. Not yet. Probably thing tin hap but I don't person any. I don't person much accusation astir that.

Can I inquire you astir Joao Pedro? How excited are you to person him connected committee and however adjacent is helium to playing a portion tomorrow?

Yeah, Joao's concern is simply a spot unusual oregon antithetic due to the fact that you cognize helium was connected holiday. Even if helium was moving but it's not the aforesaid erstwhile you enactment for yourself compared erstwhile you enactment with the team. But we are precise blessed with Joao. In the past 2 days helium worked with america and we spot if we request him time oregon we person accidental to springiness him immoderate minutes. We're gonna springiness him immoderate minutes.