{"id":2981,"date":"2026-09-02T16:51:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T16:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=2981"},"modified":"2026-09-02T16:51:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T16:51:18","slug":"i-prefer-to-play-champions-league-games-enzo-maresca-mocks-man-utd-as-chelsea-boss-bemoans-that-ruben-amorims-side-have-had-all-week-to-prepare-for-old-trafford-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=2981","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I prefer to play Champions League games&#8217; &#8211; Enzo Maresca mocks Man Utd as Chelsea boss bemoans that Ruben Amorim&#8217;s side have had &#8216;all week to prepare&#8217; for Old Trafford showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\">\n<div>\n<p>With Chelsea winless in their last two, Maresca was asked if Saturday\u2019s showdown comes with added weight. His response? A firm dismissal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsolutely not,&#8221; he began. &#8220;Personally, I have pressure on the game, that I want to try to win all the game. But it\u2019s not because we didn\u2019t win Brentford and we lost Bayern Munich away, that this game I feel more pressure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always have pressure because we want to win all the games. And again, I think Bayern Munich away, PSG away and Barcelona away, probably they were the worst stadium to go and play the first game in. And we were there, we competed face-to-face. And we\u2019ll see in the next one.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-ng\/lists\/champions-league-games-enzo-maresca-mocks-man-utd-chelsea-bemoans-ruben-amorim-old-trafford\/blt25229738693fca3a\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Chelsea winless in their last two, Maresca was asked if Saturday\u2019s showdown comes with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}