{"id":317292,"date":"2025-12-15T14:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/317292\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T14:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:08:09","slug":"chelsea-news-conference-with-enzo-maresca-after-worst-48-hours-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/317292\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea news conference with Enzo Maresca after &#8216;worst 48 hours&#8217; comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cardiff &#8216;want to show ourselves in the best light&#8217;published at 12:30 GMT<\/p>\n<p>12:30 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-16yshci-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Cardiff City v Chelsea (Tue, 20.00 GMT)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-kkut0v-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/6627a6e9-dc63-495d-a542-304e48ee3e75.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Dafydd Pritchard<br \/>BBC Sport Wales<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There is a palpable sense of positivity around Cardiff City this season, four points clear at the top of League One and playing attractive football with a team packed full of local young players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That joy is at odds with the misery of recent years, with last season\u2019s relegation from the Championship following several campaigns of dismal underachievement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Now the Bluebirds have a chance to test themselves against Club World Cup champions Chelsea in tomorrow night\u2019s EFL Cup quarter-final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cI think the anticipation for the game since the draw was made has been evident everywhere we&#8217;ve been,\u201d said Cardiff head coach Brian Barry-Murphy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cLuckily, we&#8217;ve tried to detach ourselves from that as much as possible while focusing on the league campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cBut now that it&#8217;s here, I think the build-up to the game is going to be incredibly exciting for everyone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cI think for the players and myself, we still want to show ourselves in the best light and give a good account of ourselves and compete against the team who are the Club World Cup champions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brian Barry-Murphy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/5ccb586b-ee26-4e27-93d8-8a761f5ccc46.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"653\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cardiff &#8216;want to show ourselves in the best light&#8217;published at 12:30 GMT 12:30 GMT Cardiff City v Chelsea&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-317292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}