Maresca encourages Chelsea to build momentum for tough fixture

The "Blue Lions" Chelsea will travel to challenge the "Bees" Brentford in the new round of the Premier League. Maresca said that the remaining games of this season will be extremely difficult, so he hopes that the team can build momentum and strive for better results.

With Palmer assisting Enzo to score, Chelsea beat Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 at home in the last round of the league. After successfully obtaining 3 points, Chelsea is currently ranked 4th in the standings with 52 points, one point ahead of Manchester City in 5th place. Therefore, Chelsea needs more points to gain an advantage in the fight for the Champions League qualification.

Chelsea coach Maresca said in an interview, "Every victory will make us better prepared for the next game. We hope to build momentum on the victory against Tottenham Hotspur, but we also know that every game from now on will be very difficult. We need to recover our fitness and start again, and the key to this game is how to deal with fatigue."

"It will be a tough game against Brentford, we all saw they lost away to Newcastle in midweek, but that was also a tough game. From now on, no game will be easy."

Maresca also said: "Our goal is to try to maintain the position we have been in throughout the season. In the first five or six months of the season, we were ranked second, which also raised the expectations of the outside world. But throughout the season, we have always been in the top four or top five, but we will do our best to try to maintain this position."

Lavia will miss the game

"Every game is different, our performance against Tottenham was probably better than in other games, but I am happy with some other games because I know when the opponent defends tightly it becomes very difficult.

As for the squad status, Maresca shared, "Wesley Fofana had a little muscle problem a few days ago and we are still waiting for further results. Lavia will not be able to play in this game. If you compare the number of games he played this season with last season, he has improved. But our main goal for him is to help him stay as healthy as possible so that he can play more next season than this season."

"We thought the same thing with Reece James, not exactly the same situation but similar. He came on as a substitute against Tottenham Hotspur. He's one of our best players but we put him on the bench because we wanted to look after him.

Maresca also added, "We know that he can't play a game every three days at the moment, and hopefully he can do it soon. But at the moment, the most important thing is to keep Reece James, Lavia and Wesley Fofana healthy, because we know very well how important they are to the team."