Triple Chelsea × Brazil call-up 🇧🇷📞

🗣️ Enzo Maresca ahead of Qarabag [A] in the UEFA Champions League:

🏥 𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬:

“Pedro Neto has a small issue.

“So we try to protect him. He is not involved in tomorrow’s game.

“We go day by day with Cole [Palmer]. He isn’t taking part in any sessions with the team. But we could have Benoit Badiashile available after the international break.”

🧤On 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐩 𝐉𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭:

“He could be an option, yeah. It could be an option also because we need also both keepers ready. And at the end, we need to deal or treat with Robert [Sanchez] also in the same way. We try to deal with different things.”

💪 On 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡:

“It’s an important game because it can give us three wins in a row in the Champions League and it can give us nine points.

“For sure, we need to rotate some of the players [against Qarabag] because we arrive back in London on Thursday morning at 6am, then on Saturday we have another game.

“So it’s a demanding schedule and we will try to adapt and do our best.”

🇦🇿 𝐎𝐧 𝐐𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐠:

“They are a very good team. They beat Benfica, they beat Copenhagen, they were winning against [Athletic] Bilbao and then at the end they lost. But for sure it’s going to be a tough game for different reasons.

“They are a very intense team. The way they press, the way they work together as a team, you can see that it’s many, many years they work with the same manager. And then, especially at home, they are more intense.”

(Via ChelseaFC & Bobby Vincent - Football London)

#CFC #Chelsea #ChelseaFC

Estêvão says Reece James has helped him a lot:

‘’I can’t help but mention the Brazilians, who helped me a lot. The Spanish too, because the language is similar, and Pedro Neto, who is Portuguese. But an Englishman who always helped me, even before I arrived, was Reece James.”

“He’s a spectacular guy who’s always talked to me since I arrived here. On the field, we kind of play together, so he’s always talking to me. Before, they had to translate, but now I’m able to communicate better with him. Besides being the captain, he’s one of the pillars of the team, and I was very happy with all the support that not only he, but everyone in the group, gave me.” #CFC

(espnbrasil)