Enzo Maresca went surprisingly early on at least one element of his team for tomorrow night’s Conference League final, confirming a full week ago that Filip Jorgensen will start in goal.
He was coy on the rest of his team - “Filip and ten others,” he said last Tuesday - and unsurprisingly so, given Chelsea had at that stage not played their final Premier League game, Sunday’s 1-0 win over Nottingham Forest, which secured a Champions League return.
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Maresca has grumbled at the tight turnaround from that fixture and hinted at a degree of rotation but the expectation is that the Italian will field a strong lineup in Wroclaw, rather than rewarding the fringe players who brought Chelsea this far.
In fairness, that will be made easier by the fact that the distinction between ‘A’ and ‘B’ teams is not as clear as it once was. Many of the group stage’s stalwarts left on loan in January and Maresca has been forced to use star players like Cole Palmer, Nicolas Jackson and Moises Caicedo more often in the knockout stages.
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