🇦🇷 Chelsea’s Enzo Fernandez on captaining Argentina: “On a personal level, I dream of captaining Argentina. But that decision doesn’t come down to me. It’s up to the coaching staff. Of course, I dream of being the Argentina captain.

My thoughts are on the present, though. Winning the World Cup is in the past and we are focused on what lies ahead. We know it could be Messi’s last World Cup, so we’ll aim to defend our title from Qatar as a team. Let’s hope for a kind draw.”

(via JacobsBen / GiveMeSport)

 

🗣️ Enzo Maresca ahead of Leeds United [A] in the Premier League:

🏥 𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬:

“He [Cole Palmer] is available.

“In the last game, Cole was on the bench but with ten players, it was more complicated for Cole [to return] as he needs to come back to a [full] fitness condition.

“He is available and can start the game. The idea with him is to start giving him minutes until he is ready to play 90 minutes.

“Romeo [Lavia] is still trying to recover.

“Dario [Essugo], he was okay and started some sessions with us. Now he needs to slow down a little bit so he will be out again, hopefully nothing important. The rest are all fine.”

🤔 𝐎𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐞 𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭:

“I would like to start him, but we need to do the right thing.”

🧐 𝐎𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰:

“This is a good question. I don’t know.

“[Daniel] Farke played more than 200 games with Norwich and he played just 16 or 17 games with a back five and he played always back four.

“With Leeds, he played all games with a back four and then second half against Man City, back five. They were 2-0 down, 2-2. So now, what do you think? They play so well in 3-5-2. That’s why. So we try to prepare for both and then when we see the line-up, we can organise. But it’s the main doubt for me in this moment, if they’re going to play one way or the other way. I don’t know.”

💪 𝐎𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐋𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐥:

“We need to be ready, we need to try to win both if we can, thinking that we always go game by game, so the first one is tomorrow, and then we start to focus on the next one.”

(Via ChelseaFC & BobbyVincent - Football London)

𝐔𝐏𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐃:

🗣️ Maresca on Dario Essugo’s injury setback:

“I don’t think it’s a serious setback.

“We need to check him because it just happened yesterday [Monday], unfortunately. For sure he’s not available for the next three [Premier League] games.”

(Via ChelseaFC)

IT’S MATCHDAY! 🔵

🆚 Leeds
🏆 Premier League
🕐 20:15 KO
🏟️ Elland Road

Leave your score predictions in the comments!👇

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Our 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 lineup for tonight’s match against Leeds United [A] in the Premier League.

✍️ by elliots_media

𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬:

— Moises Caicedo serves his first game of his three-match suspension.

— Romeo Lavia is expected to be out for at least a month due to a quad injury.

— Levi Colwill is out with a long-term injury.

— Dario Essugo has had an injury setback in training and is currently being assessed.

Feel free to leave your thoughts. 🔵⬇️

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Top midfielder, great person - have a wonderful birthday, Michael. 🎉🇬🇭

Happy birthday, Frank Sinclair! 😁

🚨 Cole Palmer has been nominated for the BEST MEN’S PLAYER at the 2025 GLOBE SOCCER AWARDS.

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Tonight's line-up to face Leeds. 📋

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Kickoff!

⚪️ 0-0 ⚫️ [1] #CFC | #LEECHE

Jaka Bijol scores.

⚪️ 1-0 ⚫️ [5] #CFC | #LEECHE

Tanaka makes it two.

⚪️ 2-0 ⚫️ [42] #CFC | #LEECHE

Work to do.

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FT: Leeds United 3-1 Chelsea

Chelsea XI: Sanchez; Chalobah, Tosin, Badiashile (Gusto 45’), Cucurella; A.Santos (Guiu 77’), Fernandez (C); Estevao (Neto 45’), J.Pedro, Gittens (Garnacho 61’) ; Delap (Palmer 61’)

Bench: Jorgensen, Acheampong, Gusto, James, Hato, Neto, Garnacho, Palmer, Guiu

Unused substitutes: Jorgensen, Acheampong, James, Hato

🟨 Yellow card: Estêvão (39’)

Leeds XI: Perri; Bogle, Gudmundsson, Rodon, Bijol, Struijk, Ampadu, Tanaka, Stach, Nmecha, Calvert-Lewin

Bench: Darlow, Justin, Bornauw, Gruev, Harrison, Aaronson, Gnonto, Okafor, Piroe

🔵 Goal for Chelsea from:

Pedro Neto ⚽️ [50’]
Jamie Gittens 🅰️

⚪️ Goals for Leeds from:

Jaka Bijol ⚽️ [6’]
Ao Tanaka ⚽️ [43’]
Dominic Calvert-Lewin ⚽️ [72’]

Thoughts on the game? ⬇️

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🗣️ Enzo Maresca on Chelsea’s 3-1 defeat against Leeds United [A] in the Premier League:

🤝 “They were better than us in all the aspects and they deserved to win the game.

“There is nothing we can take from this game. The only thing we can do is try to understand the mistakes we have made, try to reset, because on Saturday we have another game.

“In tonight’s game there was no-one that was at his best level. Pedro second half, Garna [Alejandro Garnacho] second half, probably they were our best players, because after we scored the goal we had two chances with Cole [Palmer] and Joao [Pedro]. Then the third goal killed the game.

“I hope that we had a bad night because it’s a game that you struggle to find something that you can take from the game. On the ball, off the ball, duels, second balls – they were much better than us in all the aspects.”

🤷‍♂️ 𝐎𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐋𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬:

“For sure for different reasons the level is not going to be always the same. Home or away against any team, if you don’t perform 100 per cent, the Premier League is tough.

“When you play the way we did in the last two games against Barcelona and Arsenal, you expect a better performance, no doubt. But because we perform so well against Arsenal and Barcelona and over the last month, that does not mean that we are going to perform always in the same way.

“For different reasons it is not possible, because of the situations you have to manage. We have players that it is not possible for them to play every two or three days. When you change players, the level drops, that is the reality because they are important players for us and would be important players for any team.”

(Via ChelseaFC)

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