Maresca: Chelsea midfielder Santos is injured; sometimes he would rather concede the ball than the red card

Hupu October 1st News Chelsea coach Maresca attended the post-match press conference to defeat Benfica 1-0.

Is this game beneficial to you?

We need this victory, three points. For this game, we controlled the game, scored goals, and created opportunities in the first half. In the second half, we were in a state of decline for various reasons.

As for substitutions, I think some of the players we sent on the field are in poor form, but the reason we let them play is because we have 7-8 casualties.

The victory tonight was great, like I said, there are times when you have to learn to win differently, just like the last few minutes of tonight.

After the weekend's loss game, you talked about the red card issue. How do you think Chelsea should control such problems?

At least we learned how to win with a red card right? (He laughed, no one laughed below)

anyway, but tonight's red card moment was only two or three minutes. Tirik plays No. 9 tonight, he can play forward, and Jiwu can play forward. Like you said, we still have time before the game against Ajax.

3 red cards in 4 games, it’s scary no matter how you look at it. What do you say to the players, or what do you want to say, to control such a situation?

I always like to watch one-on-one games. I think the red cards (versus) Newcastle and Flamenco were due to improper movement.

Then, as for Sanchez's red card was not because of improper movement, but because he wanted to defend and wanted to stop the goal, and the same was true for Charoba last week.

As for tonight, when Joao touched the ball for the second time tonight, he didn't even meet his opponent's players, but the action was the key.

As for how to control it, it is like Sanchez, who has a red card in 2-3 minutes, or a red card in loss to Brighton and Charoba. At that moment, it would be better to concede the ball, and we still have the possibility of winning the ball 11-on-11. So for me personally, this is nothing wrong.

You said that the Club World Cup is completely new for the team. In such a season where wounded soldiers are full of camps and cannot train, isn’t it difficult to help players maintain the rhythm and form of the game?

is difficult, difficult, and difficult to find the rhythm. The risk of injury to players on the court is very high, because they are likely to appear because their physical condition has not been adjusted well.

We have lost Andre Santos, who will miss the international match day (the specific time is not stated). We have seven or eight players absent, which is a very unfortunate event.

For me, it's hard to pick the same starting lineup every game of the week, but that's the case. We need to adapt, we can only come one game after another, adapt to the situation, and I will now focus on the team's Saturday game.

Is your goal in the Champions League quarterfinals? Such a competition system may be difficult to calculate scores. What are your goals?

Our goal is to advance to the next stage, but if we can make it to the top eight, that would be great for us. For us, there are six more games left in the Champions League.

For Chelsea, players' recovery is also the focus, let's see if any players can return. While the focus is on Saturday’s game, the next is international match day, you can see that Badiahile and Lavia are both back and we are waiting, hoping that more players can return.

How do you think Garnacho's performance today?

We started tonight with Garnacho, Tyrik George taking the No. 9 position, and Bonanot playing an important role in the No. 10 position.

felt great and also an important victory. Garnacho performed very well. I think Gittens had tried his best when he came on the field and they both were getting better and better.