Unai Emery believes that there will be more from Marcus Rashford after the On-Loan from Aston Villa helped to beat the defeat in the victory against Chelsea.
Rashford came up as a half-time replacement with Villa 1-0 down, but created both goals for Marco Asensio and was a constant threat to his role wide on the left.
Villa's decision to take Rashford from Manchester United for the rest of the season raised eyebrows because he had not played for United since 12 December. But he now has three assists to his name and has become a hero for the Holte end.
Emery said: 'We want to support him. Help him. Try to help him feel comfortable here. Try to help him get trust with us, try to demand with him. He is in this process.
'Of course he played a fantastic 45 minutes. We now want to be consistent. Hopefully he will become important, like today, but more and more.
“The most important thing for him is to be here with us and to be confident and comfortable in a good atmosphere and this is my goal.”
Asensio's second half the tide turned the tide for Villa, but Chelsea had a number of chances to add to the early goal of Enzo Fernandez.
The men of Enzo Maresca missed a chance to go to fourth place and the Italian admitted that this was the most painful defeat of his term of office.
He said: 'It is the most difficult defeat of the season. The reaction of Brighton (where Chelsea lost 3-0) was brilliant and the performance was very good, but it is not enough, so it's a difficult one.
'We didn't deserve to lose, but in this competition you have to be clinical. The difference is usually in the box, we had chances at 1-0 where we didn't score and it was the same at 1-1. At the end everything can happen and unfortunately we lost the game. '
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