Enzo Maresca hailed a “excellent night time” for Chelsea after they beat Djurgarden 4-1 within the Convention League semi-final, however had a warning for his gamers regardless of their snug benefit.
Chelsea are heavy favourites to win European soccer’s third-tier competitors, and took one other step in direction of the ultimate in Wroclaw with an emphatic win in Stockholm.
After absorbing some early strain, Chelsea took the lead within the twelfth minute when Jadon Sancho capitalised on poor defending, amassing Enzo Fernandez’s intelligent move and seeing his effort deflected in by Marcus Danielson.
Noni Madueke fired in a well-worked second two minutes earlier than half-time, and Nicolas Jackson then put Chelsea in full command within the second half.
First, he pounced on a mix-up between Danielson and goalkeeper Jacob Rinne to roll the ball into an empty internet, earlier than the Senegal striker made it 4-0 with a chic strike into the top-right nook from the sting of the world.
Isak Alemayehu pulled one again for Djurgarden with a tremendous close-range header and, having seen Chelsea win 3-0 within the first leg of the quarter-final away from house solely to then lose at Stamford Bridge to Legia Warsaw within the second, Maresca is taking nothing with no consideration relating to subsequent week’s return leg.
“It was the right night time. Semi-final, necessary, and it’s an excellent end result,” Maresca instructed TNT Sports activities.
“However we have already got the expertise from the Warsaw recreation the place we gained 3-0 there after which at house we struggled a bit, so we should be centered on the second leg.
“For one hour, 70 minutes the efficiency was good, then the final 20 minutes we dropped a bit of bit. Now we have to end the job at house.”
Within the different semi-final, Actual Betis beat Fiorentina 2-1 in Seville. Abde Ezzalzouli and Antony gave Betis command, earlier than Luca Ranieri pulled one again for the Serie A facet to provide them hope for the second leg in Florence.
Chelsea are additionally within the thick of a crowded race for Champions League qualification within the Premier League, with champions Liverpool subsequent up for Maresca’s males at Stamford Bridge.
“Now we’ve a recreation in three days,” Maresca added. “We’re going to reach London 5 o’clock within the morning and we’ve a recreation on Sunday so we’ve to recuperate the vitality.”
