'We won this match in the first 10 minutes': Enzo Maresca savors Chelsea's Club World Cup final victory over PSG

"We are winners of the Club World Cup and we should be proud of it. I said it on Friday, for me PSG is the best team in the world, with one of the best coaches in the world, fantastic players. Today (Sunday) , it's a very good result."

“Analyzing this team, we saw that we could exploit the gaps. Cole (Palmer) and Malo (Gusto) were tasked with occupying those gaps and creating overlaps in the wings. It worked well today. Afterwards, you can always give the players a plan, but it's up to them to implement it. The idea was to opt for intense marking. We managed to do that from the start. We knew it might be difficult to maintain for 90 minutes, but we were very aggressive, we exploited the spaces we found.

I'm happy for them, they deserve this victory. We won this match in the first ten minutes. The message was: make them understand that we are here to win and not to be extras. That set the tone for this match. Afterwards, the quality of the players did the rest. I have enormous respect for PSG and its coach, but I prepared this match to win it. If I had been told it would be 3-0 at half-time, I would not have expected such a score. But we were there to give it our all.

"I think this competition will become very important, if not more important than the Champions League."

"I greeted Luis Enrique and the PSG players. Then I saw something was happening, but I don't know what, I didn't realize it."

"A month ago, our goal was to get out of the group stage, and then we climbed the ladder one by one. A month later, I can say it was worth it. I think this competition will become very important, if not more important than the Champions League. For us, this is a triumph. It allows Chelsea fans to have the winners' badge on their shirts for four years."

"This season, we felt like we were on the right track. Starting tomorrow (this Monday) , we have three weeks of vacation and that's what I want most. We played for fifteen months without stopping. The season was excellent."