I wrote an article lately on how obsessed Enzo Maresca is with soccer. He loves the sport a lot, he lives and breathes it each single sport.
He wouldn’t name it work, however the arduous ‘work’ that Maresca places into his ‘job’ proper now’s going to be a number of the hardest work you might have ever witnessed within the sport. I’d hate to be his household, as I’m fairly positive they don’t get a glance in. You possibly can think about he provides them about an hour of his time on Christmas Day to eat some meals collectively after which he’s proper again within the workplace making ready for Chelsea’s subsequent sport all afternoon.
And plainly is precisely how he’s spending his days proper now as effectively main as much as Sunday. He’s drastically researching and making ready for the Manchester United sport, with a cup sport in opposition to Newcastle United thrown within the combine too.
However in fact, preparation for Sunday has been made a lot harder now with the sacking of Erik Ten Hag and on the time of writing, we have no idea who can be within the dug out at Outdated Trafford this weekend.
Kieran Gill of The Every day Mail reported on Tuesday evening that Erik ten Hag’s sacking has sophisticated Chelsea’s week as they’d already analysed Manchester United’s play below the Dutchman in prep for Sunday.
Maresca says he’s now ‘poring over’ PSV video games from when Ruud van Nistelrooy was supervisor, as there’s a likelihood he can be within the dugout this Sunday as caretaker supervisor for The Purple Devils.
He’s additionally conscious they could have to modify once more to Ruben Amorim and can then be watching how Sporting play and setup.
To go to this extent of stage of analysis isn’t regular. I’ve identified circumstances the place many different managers haven’t finished this, so don’t assume it’s only a regular a part of preparation for a sport. After all, many different managers do work this manner, and Maresca is one in every of them. He and his employees conduct intensive analysis of their opponents earlier than each sport, and taking a look at how the supervisor units up is only one small a part of it earlier than wanting on the particular person gamers too.
The truth that Maresca is researching Van Nistelrooy in addition to Amorim simply in case, actually is an unimaginable present of the work and power he’s placing in to this job and what he places into soccer general. He’s obsessive about the sport.
That is clearly simply all one other large optimistic for us as Chelsea followers, as a result of you realize that that quantity of intensive analysis on our opponents is barely going to assist us put together and setup higher.
I needed to point out this and write about it, as a result of it actually did impress me and I’m very positive it’s not simply the norm for all managers to place this a lot work into the opposition scouting.
