Enzo Maresca on making 11 Chelsea changes ahead of Newcastle United match | OneFootball

Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca has been talking ahead of the Newcastle United match on Sunday.

This coming in the aftermath of Thursday night’s win in Greece.

Chelsea defeating Panathinaikos 4-1 in the Conference League.

However, any Newcastle United fans thinking NUFC could be facing a fatigued Chelsea team at the weekend, maybe think again.

The reality is that Enzo Maresca played a totally different team to the one that lost against Liverpool on Sunday.

The Chelsea boss changing all eleven players, something he could well do again for the Newcastle match.

Enzo Maresca on the 4-1 win over Panathinaikos, having changed his entire team, three days before Newcastle United clash at Stamford Bridge:

‘What we want is what the players are doing: taking the chance when we give the chance,

‘Tonight again they showed this and I’ve said since we started that if we want to be there and compete we need all the players doing the right things. They are doing that.

‘For sure, on Sunday [against Newcastle United], we will make changes because we have more players [to choose from] but the important thing is they perform in the right way and the identity of the team remains the same.

‘It was a very good performance.

‘I think we struggled a little at the beginning of the game, especially off the ball in the way we were pressing. Then we made an adjustment and we were much better. On the ball, I think we were good.

‘The performance was good and the important thing, I’ve always said, is that no matter how many players we change you can see the identity of the team. We can do things better for sure but I think the identity is clear, the way we play on the ball, and when we don’t have the ball.’

‘I’m very happy but not for me, for him (Mudryk, after scoring his first goal of the season),’ Maresca explained. ‘We as a staff spend a long time helping the players, not only Misha but the whole squad, and since we started we have been working with all the wingers so that they arrive inside the box and into the position where Misha scored.

‘He has struggled to arrive there but he is now arriving there and it’s where we will score goals. It’s the same for Jadon (Sancho), Noni (Madueke), Pedro (Neto), all the wingers, they need to be in that position because the ball is going to arrive in that position.’