Football
Enzo Maresca enters defining period of his Chelsea tenure with Champions League qualification in sight
The Chelsea manager had no sooner hailed his team’s success in reaching the Conference League final than cast his mind forward to the first of his team’s “three Premier League finals”.
Enzo Maresca would dearly love his much-fancied side to get over the line in Wroclaw against Real Betis later this month but knows as well as anyone that this season will be judged according to whether or not it is rubberstamped with Champions League qualification.
“It’s a huge one. And Manchester United [next week] will be a big one, and [final game] Nottingham Forest will be a big one. We now have three more games and all of them will be big games, for sure.
