Now World ViewHello and welcome to football.london for live coverage of Enzo Maresca's pre-match press conference ahead of Chelsea's clash with Copenhagen on Thursday evening.
The Blues welcome the Danes to Stamford Bridge tomorrow night for the second-leg of their Conference League round of 16 tie. The west Londoners have a narrow advantage going into the decisive game with two second-half goals in Denmark last week ensuring a 2-1 victory at the Parken Stadium.
Since then, Chelsea have welcomed Leicester City to SW6 and edged out a 1-0 win against them on Sunday afternoon. That means if the Blues manage to pick up a victory tomorrow evening, then it will be four consecutive victories for Maresca and his team in all competitions.
However, there is a job to be done at the Bridge on Thursday and Maresca will be well aware of that. Before all of this, the head coach will face the media in his press conference that is due to start at 3pm this afternoon. Bobby Vincent is live in Cobham throughout the day to bring you up-to-date with everything the Italian has to say.
Key Events
- Enzo is here15:10
15:27Bobby Vincent
That's all
A transcript will be online soon.
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15:21Bobby Vincent
Palmer penalty miss – confident he can bounce back?
Absolutely. Cole is going to miss more penalties. I don't have any doubt in the future he is going to miss more penalties but he is going to score more penalties. I don't think it affects him in a negative way.
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15:20Bobby Vincent
Winning the UEFA Cup with Sevilla, potentially lifting the Conference League with Chelsea
It could be. Even if I think Sevilla's history is very different to Chelsea's. Chelsea is a club that every year they fight for important titles – Champions League, Premier Leagues, these kind of things. You can become addicted to winning games, hopefully it can be similar for us.
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15:19Bobby Vincent
Jorgensen called up to Denmark national team
I'm happy for him, for all of the players to join the national team. It's nice for them and for the club.
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15:18Bobby Vincent
Switching the goalkeepers
We'll see, to be honest. I didn't decide yet and we have more than 24 hours. They are both very good.
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15:17Bobby Vincent
Style of play
I think football always evolves but then you can find teams in the league that just play one way or a team that plays in different ways. We have 20 clubs in the Premier League and we are no different. Teams try to be aggressive with high pressing and some prefer to sit back and go with transition. I think it is clear we try to be aggressive off the ball and try to control on the ball. We are the second or third best attacking team in the Premier League, so we are scoring lots of goals.
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15:16Bobby Vincent
Jackson fitness – recovery going to plan?
He can be back after the international break, Noni also.
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15:16Bobby Vincent
Copenhagen draw at weekend
Every game is a different game. Tomorrow, for sure, it will be a different game. Tomorrow is a different game. We watched the game to see how they behave but I watched many games before the first-leg and they changed completely.
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15:15Bobby Vincent
Lavia fitness
Romeo is much better. He is not in the Conference League squad unfortunately. The target is the same as Reece James; to be fit until the end and play as much as he can.
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15:14Bobby Vincent
Arsenal on Sunday – what takes priority?
The priority is tomorrow because it's the next one and most important one. For sure, we are going to be focused on tomorrow's game.
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15:14Bobby Vincent
Wanting Spurs to win to ensure second-leg is at home?
First of all because it's an English team so I hope for England they go through that game. Sometimes it's better to play at home and sometimes it's better to play away.
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15:13Bobby Vincent
Palmer ready to go?
Cole, Reece and Christo today has been their first session. They had some problems. Today they are all better. As I said, yesterday they were not even here all of them and today they trained with us and we will see tomorrow if we use all of them.
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15:12Bobby Vincent
Copenhagen test
I was surprised because I watched many games. They were off the ball defending with a line of four and against us they were line of five. The reason why we were surprised was because we had to adapt. We will see tomorrow how they will be.
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15:10KEY EVENT
Enzo is here
The head coach has arrived. Live updates to follow…
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14:46Bobby Vincent
15-minute warning
We're around 15 minutes from when Enzo Maresca is due to speak to the media this afternoon. Stay tuned for live updates.
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14:27Bobby Vincent
Involved in Chelsea training
Here is a list of who was spotted in Chelsea training this afternoon:
Filip Jorgensen, Robert Sanchez, Lucas Bergstrom, Marcus Bettinelli, Freddy Bernal, Reece James, Benoit Badiashile, Pedro Neto, Shim Mheuka, Moises Caicedo, Levi Colwill, Genesis Antwi, Trevoh Chalobah, Marc Cucurella, Enzo Fernandez, Mathis Amougou, Josh Acheampong, Tosin Adarabioyo, Christopher Nkunku, Tyrique George, Jadon Sancho, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Harrison Murray-Campbell, Reggie Walsh, Cole Palmer, Romeo Lavia and Wesley Fofana.
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14:08Bobby Vincent
James returns to training – but no Gusto
Reece James took part in Chelsea's training session on Wednesday afternoon ahead of their Conference League round of 16 second-leg against Copenhagen, but there was no sign of Malo Gusto.
James missed Sunday's 1-0 win against Leicester City due to illness with the Blues captain reported a fever and temperature on Saturday and was checked by the doctor 24 hours later but was deemed not well enough to make the squad.
Read the full story here.
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Bobby Vincent
Welcome
Hello and welcome to football.london for live coverage of Enzo Maresca's pre-match press conference this afternoon.
The Chelsea head coach is due to face the media from 3pm GMT today with a lot to be discussed before the Blues welcome Copenhagen to Stamford Bridge tomorrow evening.
You can follow along with every word Maresca has to say right here in our dedicated live blog.
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