Chelsea
manager Enzo Maresca to the club's official website:
"I have no doubts about the progress this team is making in this moment.
Mistakes are part of the process.
"I have known City for many years and even in friendly games, they don’t
concede possession to the opposition, don’t concede many chances and they
have long [spells of] possession.
"Thinking about the first half, I don’t remember them making six or seven
passes in a row, so that was good from us off the ball.
"On the ball, we had many long [spells of] possession, some good chances and
– I don’t know but I think – we had about 60 per cent possession in the
first half.
"It doesn’t matter that it was a friendly game and they didn’t have six or
seven of their starting players missing, this is the analysis of this
moment.
"In any game, if you concede two goals [early on], it is not good.
"It was a very strange game to be honest. I planned the game and I think the
plan was good in terms of the way we wanted to attack and the way we wanted
to defend.
"Today we tried something different, instead of having the full-back inside,
we maintained more or less the same structure with Malo playing higher and
Kiernan going inside.
"For sure, we don’t like to lose games but in this moment, the main focus
for me is to see different things and to try to be ready for the official
games at the beginning of the season."
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