Maresca “worried” about Djurgarden’s artificial pitch

Enzo Maresca, Chelsea’s manager, acknowledged that the semi-final of the Conference League was “worrying” because he had been playing on a highly scrutinized artificial surface.

On Thursday night, the Blues travel to Djurgarden on a pitch that even the Swedish club’s manager, Jani Honkavaara, described as “horrible” after a game against GAIS last week.

Players and rival managers at Djurgarden have echoed his criticism of the 3Arena pitch.

Prior to the upcoming game against Chelsea, extra sand has been added to improve the surface’s quality.

Maresca, who has watched their last six games over the course of the past few days, is aware that the pitch could have problems.

“For certain, for certain,” the phrase means. It might be a problem. That’s causing me a little anxiety. It completely differs from grass,” he claimed.

“I am aware that some of their players have voiced their concerns about the pitch in recent weeks.” They perform every week, so each week’s schedule is different for us.

But there are no justifications or justifications for the absence of both the second game and tomorrow.

Chelsea are undoubtedly the favorites to advance despite the pitch. The Premier League comes in first place and Swedish Allsvenskan comes in 20th, with Chelsea’s squad costing 44 times more, according to Transfermarkt, according to Uefa’s league rankings.

Despite Chelsea hosting Liverpool on Sunday with the final chance of winning the Champions League, Maresca said: “We are not in a moment where we can say we decide to save players.

We want to be in the semi-final because this is a competition in Europe.

Chelsea have their strongest available squad in Sweden, but Christopher Nkunku and Robert Sanchez are unsure of their fitness levels and are currently being evaluated.

Maresca continued, “We now have the semi-finals to prepare for, and the final is our next objective, and if we can make it to the final, we must win.”

Because it’s a European competition, this club will have the chance to be the only one in the world to win every European competition. I also have a responsibility for the players to obtain that.