{"id":209397,"date":"2025-12-01T09:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T09:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/209397\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T09:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T09:53:11","slug":"eamonn-sweeney-enzo-marescas-10-man-chelsea-come-of-age-and-already-look-like-champions-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/209397\/","title":{"rendered":"Eamonn Sweeney: Enzo Maresca\u2019s 10-man Chelsea come of age and already look like champions in the making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nThis season\u2019s Premier League title is still Arsenal\u2019s to lose but resilient Blues proved club is much more than a vanity project\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Trevoh Chalobah of Chelsea opens the scoring against Arsenal at Stamford Bridge. Photo: Vince Mignott\/MB Media\/Getty Images\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages_2248639284.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Trevoh Chalobah of Chelsea opens the scoring against Arsenal at Stamford Bridge. Photo: Vince Mignott\/MB Media\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Chelsea have entered the title conversation. They\u2019re young, gifted and back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Blues\u2019 performance at Stamford Bridge yesterday showed that Enzo Maresca\u2019s players have the right stuff to become Premier League champions. It might not be this season but their hour is rapidly approaching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This season\u2019s Premier League title is still Arsenal\u2019s to lose but resilient Blues proved club is much more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[2725,2052,17363,18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-209397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-chelsea","10":"tag-eamonn-sweeney","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115643705345031813","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}