Enzo Maresca reflected on expectation setting ahead of a weekend encounter against Sunderland.
**Chelsea**crushed **Ajax**5-1 in the Champions League, earning a second successive win in the Champions League at Stamford Bridge. Marc Guiu, **Estevao**and Tyrique George got on the scoresheet on an evening that exemplified how much young talent is in the ranks for the Blues.
Yet, after another summer of spending, the club are expected to build on a strong end to the 2024/25 campaign with challenges for more major honours after getting their first two titles of the BlueCo era.
For the head coach, this target will only be fulfilled with close attention to the development of players.
“It was a special night, especially for the club, for the fans, with so many young players. I said many times that they are all good players, talented players and the main thing for me is just to try to help them day by day, how they can get better and better and also for me personally it's the only way to improve the team if you are able to improve players. So this is the main target with young players.
*“The target with the players since day one is to try to work hard every day, try to improve yourself, that is the only way to try to achieve something important. Last season we achieved Conference League, Club World Cup, top four that I think no one of you at the beginning of the season expected.*
“This season when we started the season it was exactly the same. Try to work hard, improve yourself, try to understand how we can do things better day by day than at the end of the season we see.
“I'm like the players, I say this to the players. I also say this to myself, try to improve, try to analyse, try to study, that is the only way that you can improve and you can achieve something important.”