Enzo Maresca said he is seeing signs of improvement from Chelsea as the club recorded their first win of pre-season against Club America.
After a 2-2 draw with Wrexham and a disappointing 4-1 loss to Celtic during their tour of the United States so far, Chelsea recorded their first win under the new manager after beating the Mexican outfit 3-0 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta.
Christopher Nkunku opened the scoring from the penalty spot early on before a header from summer signing Marc Guiu doubled the lead before half-time. A second spot-kick, from Noni Madueke, wrapped up the win after the break.
Maresca handed debuts to new arrivals Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall and Filip Jorgensen, with the latter having only completed his move from Villarreal the previous day.
The Italian said he was happy with an improved display from his team as Chelsea adapt to the manager’s methods.
“I am very happy. I said the other day when we lost that the result is always important because we are Chelsea but the main focus for us at the moment has to be to analyse or to judge the performance and see how we have improved.
“From my personal perspective, from Wrexham, to Celtic, to today, we continue to improve. This is the most important thing.
“We struggled against Wrexham for many reasons, we struggled against Celtic for many reasons but there were many important things which we improved [against Celtic]. And today, we continued that line, which is the most important thing.
“Since we started, what we do in training has to happen in the game. Against Wrexham, we prepared something and it happened. Against Celtic, the same and again today, the same thing. That is the most important thing.”
