{"id":4556,"date":"2025-05-07T10:51:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T14:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/chelsea-rises-again-maresca-sees-the-conference-league-as-the-rebirth-of-the-blues\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T10:51:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T14:51:40","slug":"chelsea-rises-again-maresca-sees-the-conference-league-as-the-rebirth-of-the-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/chelsea-rises-again-maresca-sees-the-conference-league-as-the-rebirth-of-the-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Rises Again! Maresca Sees the Conference League as the Rebirth of the Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coach Enzo Maresca has stated that conquering the Conference League this season would mean that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chelsea<\/a> is back.<\/p><p>The London team has one foot in the final after a resounding 4-1 victory against Djurgarden in the first leg of the semi-final last week.<\/p><p>Chelsea, who had to go through the playoffs to qualify for the third-tier European competition, played their last European final in 2021, when they beat Manchester City 1-0 to lift their second Champions League trophy.<\/p><p>Now, they can become the first team to win all three European competitions if they add the Conference League to their trophy cabinet this month.<\/p><blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It is very important for us, for different reasons. But mainly because we want this club to win trophies. Winning a trophy is a statement and then it could be said that Chelsea is back.<\/p><cite>Enzo Maresca<\/cite><\/blockquote><p>Maresca added that if they play in the Conference it&#8217;s because that&#8217;s where they are. And if they play in the Conference, the only trophy they can win is the Conference. I think it&#8217;s a good starting point.<\/p><p>Maresca confirmed that Chelsea has no injury problems ahead of Thursday&#8217;s second-leg semi-final, adding that midfielder Marc Guiu could also be involved with the team.<\/p><p>The Spanish teenager, who joined last summer from Barcelona and is Chelsea&#8217;s top scorer in the competition with six goals, missed the last three months due to a hamstring problem.<\/p><blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Perhaps it&#8217;s better for Marc to have a few more days of training, but he&#8217;s very close to returning to us.<\/p><cite>Enzo Maresca<\/cite><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coach Enzo Maresca has stated that conquering the Conference League this season would mean that Chelsea is back. The London team has one foot in the final after a resounding 4-1 victory against Djurgarden in the first leg of the semi-final last week. Chelsea, who had to go through the playoffs to qualify for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[220,1096,1097,792],"class_list":{"0":"post-4556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-chelsea","9":"tag-conference-league","10":"tag-enzo-maresca","11":"tag-trophy"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}