Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca admitted Chelsea have been exceeding his expectations after they produced a beautiful comeback to win 4-3 at Tottenham this afternoon.
The West London facet have been 2-0 down inside 11 minutes after two slips from Marc Cucurella, who seemingly had the incorrect sort of trainers on, however fought again to maneuver 4 factors behind Premier League leaders Liverpool.
Cole Palmer scored two penalties with Jadon Sancho and Enzo Fernandez additionally heading in the right direction as Chelsea secured their fourth successive win in all competitions.
Cole Palmer weaves his approach by the Tottenham defence and Enzo Fernandez is there to complete it off with a superb strike 💫 pic.twitter.com/UofYO0PxY4
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Maresca took over in the summertime after main Leicester to promotion final season and the Italian has been massively spectacular to this point at Stamford Bridge.
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Requested if he had been stunned by the velocity of their progress, he informed BBC Radio 5 Reside: “For certain, 100 per cent. We’re forward of my expectation, when it comes to the best way we play on the ball, off the ball and when it comes to the outcomes.
“We modified once more tonight seven gamers and can make adjustments on Thursday and Sunday as a result of they’re good and all need to play.
“Mentally we confirmed how robust we’re. General we deserved to win the sport.
“On the ball I believe, even after we conceded the 2 targets, we have been taking part in excellent. The crew was taking part in excellent after which second half, up till the final 5 minutes we conceded nothing in any respect and created probabilities. We deserved to win the sport.”
Ice-cold Palmer stars
Palmer was once more excellent, the England worldwide delivering a man-of-the-match efficiency capped by his two targets – the second spot-kick a pleasant Panenka.
“I do know Cole from a very long time in the past and I at all times belief him in each side,” added Maresca. “He’s a unbelievable man. He’s studying easy methods to play video games when he’s marked man-to-man, [Yves] Bissouma was with him all the sport.
“He’s studying, bettering and scoring targets. That makes him pleased and makes us pleased.”
Requested about Cucurella’s footwear, Maresca mentioned: “He mentioned to me after the sport that he was attempting to deliver emotion to the sport!
“It’s extra a query for Marc. They’re mature sufficient to resolve what boots they want for the sport. A very powerful factor is that we have been 2-0 however we continued the identical approach to create probabilities.”