{"id":195595,"date":"2025-12-17T00:51:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T00:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/195595\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T00:51:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T00:51:06","slug":"enzo-maresca-chelsea-boss-happy-and-in-love-with-the-players-despite-comments-last-week-about-worst-48-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/195595\/","title":{"rendered":"Enzo Maresca: Chelsea boss ‘happy’ and ‘in love with the players’ despite comments last week about ‘worst 48 hours’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maresca, who led the Blues to Club World Cup and Europa Conference League glory earlier this year, has now taken Chelsea to three semi-finals in 18 months.<\/p>\n

But speculation around what he has said, and what he has not, has rumbled on from Saturday with his failure to explain what he meant.<\/p>\n

Maresca’s team selection and rotation policy has come under criticism<\/a> at times this season and the former Leicester boss is believed to have wanted more protection from figures within Chelsea during their recent four-game winless run.<\/p>\n

He has also been quick to highlight his injury and suspension problems, with star forward Cole Palmer injured for much of the season while key midfielder Moises Caicedo is serving a three-match suspension and managing an ongoing knee issue.<\/p>\n

Having qualified for the Champions League in his first season in charge then guided Chelsea to two trophies, Maresca perhaps feels he should receive more support.<\/p>\n

Reaching the last four of the League Cup puts the Blues as contenders for another piece of silverware.<\/p>\n

Asked if he felt backed by the club, Maresca told Sky Sports: “Tonight the focus has to be that we reached the semi-final, the support from fans has always been there.<\/p>\n

“We are going in the right direction, everything I do is because I want the best for everyone – the fans, players, everyone.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maresca, who led the Blues to Club World Cup and Europa Conference League glory earlier this year, has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-195595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}