Chelsea defeated Paris Saint-Germain 3-0 in the final of the Club World Cup and Bluesbaas Enzo Maresca has claimed that the tournament “will become just as important as the Champions League”
Enzo Maresca insisted that the club World Cup will be the biggest trophy in football. Chelsea -Baas Maresca has imposed a wonderful victory on the rule of the European Champions Paris Saint Germain who also £ 97 million in prize money Nets.
For all the stick that has made the competition of FIFA, Chelsea can now have their second major trophy of the season and the first winners of the New Look Tournament. Maresca also stated that the club World Cup will grow in the coming years after the first edition in the United States in the coming years.
Maresca said: “I think it will be just as important as the Champions League and we appreciate it just as well as winning the Champions League.” The Italian coach also unveiled his tactical master plan and how to beat PSG that had dominated under Luis Enrique last season.
Cole Palmer was the match winner with two goals and an assist because he again showed that he is a big game player. Maresca said: “These are the games where we expect Cole to appear. Big games and big moments and again he showed how good he is.
“We saw analyzing that a good opportunity was if we could operate that space. We put Cole and Malo on that side and created a little overload. It was just a game plan. We tried to use a different game plan.
“We tried to help the players in a position to give everything. Today it worked pretty well. It has been the trouble of the team and all the players. I am very happy especially for them because they earn the moment.
“I repeat that we have analyzed the game and we could say that there was a lot of space on the left wing for PSG and we could see that we could exploit it. I think we win the game in the first ten minutes.
“We came to the field to show that we were here to give everything and win the victory. I have the greatest respect for the opponents. You can give your players a detailed plan, but they have to exploit it and they do so well.
“We respect PSG, but we had a plan to prepare for the game to win the game. If you had told me that we would win 3-0 in the first half, I would not have expected that. We knew we would fight and we knew that our team is really competitive against talented teams.
“In my personal opinion when you give them time, you will be worse off and that is what we tried to do. The idea was to go to man. PSG are as good if you give them time, you will struggle. You have to press them intensely.
“The first ten minutes we could do it and our idea worked. We knew it was not possible to do it for a long time. We tried to be very aggressive and don't give them time. On everything we had some very good moments, we exploited the space.”
Maresca also explained his end of the game with PSG boss Enrique when the rival bosses were involved in ugly scenes. He added: “After the last whistle, I approached Luis to talk to him and I saw that something was wrong, but I don't know what really happened.”