Enzo Maresca is confident Chelsea will soon take maximum points from games against the Premier League giants after watching his side struggle to a 1-1 draw with Arsenal.
The Blues had previously lost to Manchester City and Liverpool – one at home and one away – in their only two Premier League losses of the season.
Maresca’s side fell behind on the hour against Arsenal when Gabriel Martinelli punished the missing defense with Martin Odegaard’s floating cross, but won a share of the booty when Pedro Neto’s low finish earned the Portuguese his first Premier League goal for Chelsea.
The result moved Chelsea up to third in the table, ahead of Nottingham Forest after Newcastle United went down 3-1 at the City Ground, and Maresca was emphatic in his belief that wins against the top teams they will come if their players continue. play the same way.
“I’ve said it many times. You think we deserve to lose against them Liverpool? No,” said the Italian. “It’s football, it can happen. Pretty soon, we’ll be winning these kinds of games. But at this point, the performance is very important because if we draw tonight and you don’t deserve the draw, you’re probably happy with the result.
“Away at Bournemouth we didn’t deserve to win, and we did. Against Crystal Palace and Nottingham Forest, we deserved to win, and we didn’t. We’ll win soon, the performance was good.”
He continued: “We are very happy. For me we are behind these kinds of clubs like city i arsenal. The reason is that they’ve been working every day for the last five years or nine years with the same manager, so we’re behind them.
“That doesn’t mean that when we face them, we won’t compete and try to win. Chelsea is one of the biggest clubs in Europe, in the world. Yes, we have to compete and try to win games. Tonight, we competed and we tried win the match and very soon we will win this type of games.
“We played the way we want to play on and off the ball. The game was open at times, anything can happen to both sides, but for sure, 100%, we deserved a point and that’s important” .
