Chelsea manager, Enzo Maresca has come out to share why Reece James was taken off at half-time in the FA Cup third round win over Morecambe. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, he took off Reece James and Romeo Lavia at halftime simply to protect them, and the idea from the start was for them to play 45 minutes.
Maresca added that he hopes both players can now build some physical condition to be with the team for the rest of the season.
His words, “For him and Romeo Lavia, it was just to protect them. The idea was to play 45 minutes. Hopefully we can start from there and build some physical condition to be with us for the rest of the season. The idea is to slowly, slowly build the right condition, especially with Reece. We have to be a little bit more careful. The good thing is that they both play 45 minutes, both finish well without any problem. Hopefully now we can start to help them to build the right condition.”
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Chelsea Football Club is an English professional football club based in Fulham, West London. Founded in 1905, they play their home games at Stamford Bridge.
The club competes in the Premier League, the top division of English football. They won their first major honour, the League championship, in 1955. The club won the FA Cup for the first time in 1970, their first European honour, the Cup Winners’ Cup, in 1971, and became the third English club to win the Club World Cup in 2022.
On 7 May 2022, Chelsea confirmed that terms have been agreed for a new ownership group, led by Todd Boehly, Clearlake Capital, Mark Walter and Hansjörg Wyss, to acquire the club. The group was later known as BlueCo.
The UK government approved the £4.25bn takeover, ending Abramovich’s 19-year ownership of the club. Bruce Buck, who served as chairman since 2003, was replaced by Boehly, while long-serving club director and de facto sporting director Marina Granovskaia left, as did Petr Čech from the role of technical and performance advisor.
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