I’m NOT here to SURVIVE! I’m AMBITIOUS! Maresca SNAPS BACK at critics | Aston Villa v Chelsea
2025 · Football · Football
I’m NOT here to SURVIVE! I’m AMBITIOUS! Maresca SNAPS BACK at critics | Aston Villa v Chelsea
I’m NOT here to SURVIVE! I’m AMBITIOUS! Maresca SNAPS BACK at critics | Aston Villa v Chelsea
2025
13m
Football
Enzo Maresca insists he is not at Chelsea ‘to survive’ and insists he is ‘ambitious’ to get the club back to winning trophies and playing in the Champions League. The Blues face top four rivals Aston Villa tomorrow. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Team news? We don’t have update on the injured ones. They are the same. No new additional injuries. Noni will be out for at least until after the international break. 0:37 Hopefully just four games for Noni. Hopefully all the injured players can be back after the international break. 0:58 Villa are doing fantastic under the Emery project. They are there fighting to finish top four this season. Very good team, they know clearly how they want to play. One of the best managers around. 1:52 We said many times that we’ve spent most of the season in the top four. That is the target. We will do our best to achieve that. We are in a difficult moment and one of the reasons for that is the injury situation. We have five players out from the last time we faced Villa. It’s happened to many clubs this season, Arsenal and Man City. 3:12 I’ve been clear since day one. I’m not here to survive, I’m here to win games. To bring this club to fight for titles. The problem is when you win games you look humble, when you don’t win games you lack ambition. My intention is to win titles and bring this club to win trophies. I’m ambitious, the club is ambitious. We are dealing with many injuries and that has effected the level of the team. 4:33 Nice to hear from the owners that I’m doing a good job. They always support me. The sporting director and the owner. 5:08 If Sanchez wants to play again, he has to have the same hairstyle as mine! 5:41 Against City it was not the game plan. Against Brighton it was the dynamic of the game. When you play there your defensive line is higher so you can concede chances in behind. 6:19 Second balls are key to how we want to play. With more physical players, Wes, Nico, Romeo… this is why we are struggling a little bit at the moment. After t