Chelsea star reveals area they targeted Liverpool in late victory | OneFootball

Chelsea defender Marc Cucurella says his side tried to exploit Liverpool’s right-hand side in their 2-1 win over the reigning champions.

After Cody Gakpo had equalised following Moises Caicedo’s opener, left-back Cucurella set up youngster Estevao for a 95th minute winner and the Spaniard says boss Enzo Maresca had identified Mo Salah staying forward as a weakness for the opposition.

“We know that Salah is always ready for the counter attack so we practiced that and the manager said that the space might be there [on the right side of Liverpool],” Cucurella told Sky Sports.

“We saw that it was the last minute but we kept attacking. I tried to give my last effort and Enzo gave me the ball and I crossed for Estevao.”

On the victory, Cucurella said: “I think we deserve it. We started the game very well and then the second half we started not in the right way again. We need to improve these things.

“But in general I think we deserve this win. We came through some tough weeks, this moment was amazing and we go into the break with three points, so we are very happy.

“We deserved this moment. It was not an easy week for us. Playing Champions League we play every few days. It is good because if you lose then you have another game in a few hours. In the middle of the week we suffered in the final minutes but we created this momentum with the fans.

“Then today we started the game in the right way, we scored early as well and we started to get confidence.”