Enzo Maresca has really fed stress upfront of Chelsea‘s journey to Brighton on Friday night with a wierd assortment of responses concerning Seagulls supervisor Fabian Hurzeler.
Maresca takes his Chelsea facet to the Amex for the 2nd time in per week, with the Blues in search of to retaliate their FA Cup fourth-round loss as the edges reunite within the Premier League.
Both Maresca and Hurzeler have been chosen by their corresponding golf equipment final summertime, with the final ending up being the youngest supervisor in Premier League background at merely 31.
When requested, nonetheless, what he had really constructed from his equal’s launching interval, the Italian decreased to remark.
“I prefer not to say anything about their manager,” he claimed.
Later, when continued whether or not he had really not been excited by Hurzeler’s service the south shoreline, Maresca relatively admired earlier Brighton supervisor Roberto de Zerbi.
Maresca’s compatriot left Brighton on the finish of final interval, after almost 2 years accountable, and was associated to the Chelsea work previous to occupying his current article at Marseille.
“It’s not that I’m not impressed [with Hurzeler],” Maresca claimed. “First of all, I think the previous Brighton manager is a top manager, not because he’s a friend of mine, but I think he’s a top manager. And that’s it, yeah.”
Finally, when requested on the finish of his interview whether or not he moreover took into consideration Hurzeler a “top manager”, Maresca simply grinned and claimed: “Thank you very much.”
Chelsea and Brighton have really fulfilled two instances presently this era, with the Blues profitable 4-2 within the group at Stamford Bridge in September, previous to their 2-1 loss within the FA Cup final weekend break.
Maresca rejected that there had really been any sort of concern with Hurzeler coming from that online game and the useful resource of what appears stress in between each trainers continues to be a secret.
Hurzeler has, nonetheless, grew to become a considerably tough quantity all through his very first interval in English soccer and in November, he was related to an intense run-in with Russell Martin, the after that Southampton supervisor, that charged his competitor of a disrespect complying with each golf equipment’ 1-1 draw.
The German has really been carded 5 instances by umpires over his touchline conduct, some of the of any sort of top-flight supervisor this time period. Neatly, De Zerbi holds the doc for essentially the most reservations in a single Premier League interval with 6, in 2022-23.
