Maresca says Chelsea have no target at upcoming Club World Cup

The latest London sport headlines, from Daniel Wales. 02/06/25

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00:00Chelsea head coach Enzo Maresca has said that the club has no targets for the upcoming Club World Cup.

00:07Chelsea, along with Manchester City, will be the only English representatives at the Club World Cup in America.

00:14Chelsea, of course, have just won the Conference League with a 4-1 victory over Real Betis in the final,

00:20as well as having qualified for the Champions League on the final day of the Premier League season,

00:24thanks to a 1-0 win away at Nottingham Forest that secured their spot.

00:30Now we have 10 days off, 10 days where we need to recover energy and then we're going to start the club World Cup.

00:43The target, to be honest, is go game by game, try to go step by step, but in this moment we don't have any target for the club World Cup.

00:52Now the only target is to recover energy because the season has been very long.

00:57Don't forget that we start the Conference in play-off, not even in the group, and it has been a long season.

01:04And following Chelsea's win in the final of the Conference League in Poland,

01:09Chelsea players Cole Parma and Tosin Adarabayo have reacted to the match itself,

01:14as well as previous comments made in the media about Chelsea's ability to perform in big matches.

01:21Parma says that he did not think about those comments when going into the final against Betis,

01:26but instead concentrated on the match with Adarabayo praising Parma's ability to help Chelsea win the game.

01:32I wouldn't say I was hurt, I didn't really pay attention to be honest,

01:38but I think we've shown on Sunday that we can go to a tough place and win,

01:43and tonight, even when we were losing, I feel like we've shown good character again and we come back here.

01:54Yeah, it was crazy to be honest, two very special individual moments where I was able to hold on to the ball

02:02and provide bundles of quality to put the ball onto Enzo's head, onto Nico's foot to score two great goals

02:10and completely change the game, and yeah, that's what he does, man.