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Enzo Maresca believes that Chelsea will be “a better team” after his fourth end of the European Conference League final with Legia Warsaw on Thursday.

The Maresca side has a record of 100 percent in the competition this season and will be a firm favorite for victory in the Polish capital.

The Blues will wait for the next step to a first trophy under the Italian. However, the London Club is balancing its European ambitions with a push to get football from the Champions League in the next term, reaching a more important place in the Premier League.

And the latter, insists Maresca, is still the priority.

“The main goal becomes the top four, the top five places and playing in the champion league next season,” said Maresca.

“But especially since this club, the fans and the institution, Chelsea as a club, have to play this competition.

“We have been there all season and we hope we can be in the end.”

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Although the Chelsea is expected to return from Victorious Poland, its manager believes that the experience will only benefit his young squad.

“We cannot allow external things to change the way we think or the change we behave,” said Maresca.

“As a player, I played in four or five different teams where you can play Derby.

“I said we have to experience this type of game, this kind of moment, which surely after tomorrow’s game we will be a better team because we need this.

“We are very young, but at the same time we need this kind of game to improve.”

Maresca, who confirmed that the Ombudsman Wesley Fofana would be out of the rest of the season after undergoing string surgery, also addressed his a bit controversial decision to rest on Sunday in Cole Palmer and Nicolas Jackson in his Premier League League League against Brentford.

“Probably from the outside, you receive the wrong way the reason why Cole and Nico did not play. They did not play, not because we want to rest today.

“They did not play because there was a play plan, because Brentford had 24 hours more than us, because some of the players were tired.”