NONIIIII, IT'S THREE!

⚪️ 0-3 🔵 [74] #CFC | #UECL

FT: Legia Warsaw 0-3 Chelsea

Chelsea XI: Jorgensen, Gusto (Amougou 75’), Tosin (Colwill 45’), Badiashile, Acheampong, James (C) (Cucurella 58’), Dewsbury-Hall, Sancho, Palmer (Madueke 45’), George (Mheuka 75’), Nkunku

Bench: Sanchez, Cucurella, Colwill, Neto, Fernandez, Madueke, Jackson, Chalobah, Caicedo, Amougou, Rak-Sakyi, Mheuka

Unused substitutes: Sanchez, Neto, Fernandez, Jackson, Chalobah, Caicedo, Rak-Sakyi

🟨 Yellow cards:

Legia Warsaw XI: Tobiasz, Kapuadi, Oyedele, Augustyniak, Chodyna, Pankov, Wszołek, Rúben Vinagre, Elitim, Morishita, Luquinhas

Bench: Mendes, Kovačević, Gonçalves, Pekhart, Bichakhchyan, Kun, Barcia, Mozie, Olewiński, Szczepaniak

🔵 G/A for Chelsea from:

Tyrique George ⚽️ [49’]
Noni Madueke ⚽️ [57’]
Jadon Sancho 🅰️
Nkunku misses penalty [73’]
Madueke ⚽️ [74’]
Sancho 🅰️

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Enzo Maresca on Chelsea’s 3-0 win over Legia Warsaw [A] in the Conference League quarter-final first leg:

🤝 “We planned the game to try to have our best players for this game, and to give a chance to rest players and recover energy.

“It was a professional performance and a good result. We were much better in the second half, for different reasons. We need to learn to play different times of games.

“When they sit back, you have to be quicker on the ball. You have to shoot from outside the box because they are all inside the box. If you don’t shoot, it’s difficult. The first goal came from Reece [James] shooting outside the box, and Ty was there for the rebound.

“From television you can say lack of tempo, but it’s not easy. You have to find solutions. It’s a different game. You have to learn to play games against teams that sit back. For sure you can take more risks, or take more shots when you arrive at the edge.”

🤩 On Tyrique George, who opened his Chelsea account:

“I am really happy for the Chelsea Academy, first of all. He is one of our boys from the Academy. I’m very happy for him.

“He was quite good first half. He took responsibility. Second half in the middle he was a bit better.”

👏 On Josh Acheampong’s performance:

“The one that I fell in love tonight is Josh because for me potentially he can be fantastic player, top player for this club, for the football in general and a good player shows you that can play in different position and he can do good, he was full back, good, midfielder, good, defender, good, so it’s not about I play in that position or in that position, if you are good player you can be in different position. The best thing from Josh also is that he’s open, he wants to learn.”

☹️ On Christopher Nkunku, who missed a penalty:

“Probably in this moment is lack of confidence and the reason why is because he’s missing goal or penalty like tonight but the only way to deal with that is to work hard every day because when you work hard for sure the reward is important, the problem is when you stop to work and the good thing about Christoph is that he’s working well every day.”

(Via ChelseaFC & Bobby Vincent - Football London)

Enzo Maresca ahead of Ipswich Town [H] in the Premier League

🚜 On Ipswich Town, and whether he is wary of them because they are fighting for survival:

“Absolutely, it will be a tough game. No doubt. In this moment, any team you face is complicated.
No matter if it’s Southampton, Ipswich or Leicester, because they want to show themselves and finish in the right way. They don’t like to lose games, so it will be tough. We have seven games, all of them very difficult. The first one is Ipswich and hopefully we can get the three points.”

🔐 On Nicolas Jackson:

“We need to manage him because you can see his importance to us.

“It was harder playing games without him because he is that kind of striker who is always a threat to the opposition’s defensive line, and he is also very aggressive off the ball. With Nico, I think we are a better team, so we are going to try to manage him until the end.”

⏳ On the lack of goals recently:

“Overall, this season, we have created enough. It’s just a matter of scoring the goals.

“Sometimes you have to score goals from outside the box, because teams defend the box very well. Brentford, for most of the game, had 11 players inside the box, so it’s difficult to find space and solutions.

“We tried with many players – Pedro Neto, Cole Palmer, Enzo Fernandez – and all of them were close. Unfortunately, we didn’t score. I am more worried when we don’t create. When we create, we will score goals.”

💪 On whether he is confident the Blues can finish the season strongly to achieve the goal of a return to Europe’s top competition:

“In terms of results, in the last five games we won three, drew one, and lost one. Overall, many clubs are all in the same position at this moment. It’s a big fight to be there in the Champions League positions. Hopefully we can be there until the end and achieve that.

“I am very confident because, first of all, I look at the reality, and all season we have been in the top four. For part of the season, we were second for many weeks.

“So I am confident. We have seven games to go and hopefully we can finish where we are [in the Champions League places].”

(Via ChelseaFC & Bobby Vincent - Football London)

❗️Moises Caicedo needs to avoid a yellow card against Ipswich to avoid a suspension for the remaining games of the season.

A great end to the half! 🙌

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🏆 Premier League
🕐 14:00 KO
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