The Chelsea approached the final in a wrong way, “says Maresca

Chelsea’s manager, Enzo Maresca The final victory of the conference league on Real Betis.

A Betis inspired by Isco was, with much, the best side in the initial 45 minutes and could have been more than 1-0 in Wroclaw.

But Maresca introduced Reece James to the interval and saw that Cole Palmer conjured two good goals for Enzo Fernandez and Nicolas Jackson, before Jadon Sancho and Moises Caicedo added a little brightness.

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The Marelon side surpassed Nottingham Forest last weekend to achieve champions league football, and the manager said they did not focus completely on the conference league final.

He told TNT Sports: “I am very happy. I was a bit frustrated in the first half because I think we approached the game wrongly.

“I was waiting a little, happiness was a little too much after Nottingham Forest to go all the season waiting and waiting (to get Champions League). So we fought a little the first half, the second half, we were much better and now we are very happy.

“The message after Nottingham Forest was:” Guys if we want to be an important team, what we have done is and we have to win the final. “But it is happiness, the tiredness because we had 48 hours less than them, they played on Friday for nothing, we played Sunday for a great big goal.

“In the second half we played much better.”

Chelsea’s defender, Levi Colwill, said it was a good effort to become the first team to win the Champions League Cup, Europa League, Conference League and CUP.

He added: “To be the first club to win everything possible, you can see the fans celebrating now and shows what it means to them.

“We knew they would be a good team, especially at first with their fans to push them, but we knew they would die. We just had to wait and choose our moments and that’s what we did in the second half.

“It has been incredible. We have achieved everything we wanted to do. It is incredible to win my first European competition with Chelsea, we hope there are many more. And get the Champions League for next season, I don’t think you can improve it.”

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