{"id":5602,"date":"2026-09-21T11:13:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T11:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=5602"},"modified":"2026-09-21T11:13:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T11:13:35","slug":"estevao-willian-reveals-conversation-with-enzo-maresca-that-led-to-chelsea-winner-in-added-time-against-liverpool-as-teenage-sensation-praises-blues-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=5602","title":{"rendered":"Estevao Willian reveals conversation with Enzo Maresca that led to Chelsea winner in added time against Liverpool as teenage sensation praises Blues manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In a post-game interview with <em>Chelsea TV<\/em>, the young winger expressed his delight at being part of the victory, and how much he is enjoying plying his trade in west London. Despite limited English, the 18-year-old spoke with excitement and passion with a beaming smile that did not need any translating.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh wow,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m just so, so happy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m grateful to God, to my family, to all my team-mates, to the coaching staff and to everyone else at the club who has helped me with my football here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s an amazing feeling to score my first Premier League goal and in such a big game, I\u2019m just so happy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Estevao, who joined the club this summer from Palmeiras in a fee worth up to \u00a355 million ($74m), revealed his manager gave him the freedom to go out and impact the game, despite his relative inexperience.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel great right now and it\u2019s so good that the manager has so much confidence in me,&#8221; Estevao added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I went on, he told me to just play my own game and to try and make an impact. He told me to try and score or create a goal and thankfully I managed to do that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m so happy for him and for all the belief that the manager, Enzo Maresca, has in me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Estevao is clearly enjoying his football at the moment, and is showing little sign of the added pressure of Premier League football and a move to a new country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Things at Chelsea have gone a lot better so far than I maybe imagined,&#8221; he stated. &#8220;I feel so good in training every day and I enjoy every moment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have fantastic team-mates and coaching staff around me that help me each day, and it\u2019s very helpful that I have my family with me and they\u2019ve helped me really settle into life in England and the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I couldn\u2019t be happier!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-ng\/lists\/estevao-willian-reveals-conversation-enzo-maresca-chelsea-winner-liverpool-teenage-sensation\/bltc350ae6ff960a07c\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a post-game interview with Chelsea TV, the young winger expressed his delight at being&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}