14-7-2025
Chelsea coach Enzo Maresca said everything went according to plan for his team as they out muscled Paris St Germain in Sunday’s FIFA Club World Cup final.
Chelsea surprisedworld football fans who had tipped the French side to win. Chelsea put up an out of the blues performance and ripped open PSG in the first half of the game played at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. Cole Palmer scored two and made one for Joao Pedro to seal the famous win.
“In our ideal world we have to do that for 90 minutes but we knew because of the weather it was not possible to do it for a long time. But we tried to be very aggressive and not give them time. Then on the ball we had some very good moments, we exploited the space that we planned, it was very good,” Maresca said.
‘I think PSG are a team that you either press them high or you will be in trouble because they have so many talented players, if you give them time to link up and get the ball they are so good.
‘I think we won the game in the first 10 minutes and the message before the game was to make them understand that we are here to win the game. I think the first 10 minutes the team was there. It probably set a little bit of the tone for the game. Then again the quality of the players, the game plan, everything was good.”