Enzo Maresca has truly fed stress upfront of Chelsea‘s journey to Brighton on Friday night with a wierd assortment of responses relating to Seagulls supervisor Fabian Hurzeler.
Maresca takes his Chelsea aspect 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 had 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 truly produced 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 truly not been excited by Hurzeler’s service the south shoreline, Maresca moderately admired earlier Brighton supervisor Roberto de Zerbi.
Maresca’s compatriot left Brighton on the finish of final interval, after practically 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 truly fulfilled two occasions 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 truly been any type 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 truly been carded 5 occasions by umpires over his touchline habits, one of the vital of any type of top-flight supervisor this time period. Neatly, De Zerbi holds the doc for probably the most reservations in a single Premier League interval with 6, in 2022-23.
