Enzo Maresca’s tactical answer shows he wants his team to be more like Guardiola’s Man City | OneFootball

Enzo Maresca gave some really interesting tactical answers in his press conference today following his side’s defeat to Fulham at home.

Asked about what he thought his side could do better, he responded thus:

“For sure we can manage the game better because, as I said, we knew that they are very good in transition,’ he continued. ‘It is difficult to find a team like them with so many players that can run a lot. I think in the first half we controlled that well. In the first 15 or 20 minutes of the second half, we didn’t control that.”

Maresca calls for more Guardiola-like approach from his side

Enzo Maresca and Pep Guardiola in press conferences.

The former Pep Guardiola assistant also made comments which indicated he would like his team to be more like his old boss’s sides: using lots of short passes to get his team high up the pitch and coordinated, rather than letting the game open up like it did today:

“It’s a game that for me, before you attack you need to give passes, passes, passes, because that makes us close together, and in the moment that we lose the ball we can be aggressive. But if we want to attack with one or two passes, then we are stretched, we are open, and they can hurt us. But it’s a lesson that we can learn.

“Fulham are a team that if you want to attack quick, then they will attack quick, and it becomes a basketball game. That’s not for us, we need to control it better.

“If there was something I didn’t like, for sure it was the result, but the other thing is that at some moments we could manage the game much better. For sure one of the things we could have done better was the game management, but also I think we did many good things.’