Chelsea winger Noni Madueke has said he does not understand the criticism Ezo Maresca has faced after guiding the club to victory in his first season in charge.

The 23-year-old started as Chelsea lifted the Conference League title with a 4-1 win over Real Betis in

what has been a positive week for the Blues, who also secured Champions League football with a win over Nottingham Forest on Sunday. Maresca

also hit back at some of Chelsea’s skeptics and Madueke himself does not understand why his boss is being criticised.

“I am not bothered by the criticism. Criticism is a motivation, thank goodness for it,” Madueke said.

Asked about the criticism Maresca has faced, Madueke said: เล่นบาคาร่า UFABET เว็บตรง ค่าคอมสูง “The gaffer is fantastic. He won a trophy with Leicester last year and this year he has led Chelsea to a trophy in his first year and a Champions League place. I don’t understand why there is criticism of him.”

Maresca hopes Conference League success will inspire Chelsea to do even better and Madueke agrees.

“It’s fantastic, the result of a lot of hard work, a lot of dedication and we are really happy to get the job done. “

It feels like we have grown, doesn’t it? I feel like we have, you know? I think in the last few weeks we have made another leap. “

That is obviously an achievement, especially from where we have been in the last few years. We know Chelsea is a winning club but in our mind we were not thinking about anything else other than winning trophies and we did it. “

Of course the win will be a motivation, it will be like that for sure. It was the first big trophy for a lot of our team-mates and we are really happy to win it.”