{"id":329019,"date":"2025-08-08T22:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T22:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/329019\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T22:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T22:42:12","slug":"chelsea-v-bayer-leverkusen-newcastle-v-espanyol-live-follow-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/329019\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea v Bayer Leverkusen & Newcastle v Espanyol LIVE: Follow live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Estevao is a fantastic player’published at 21:20 British Summer Time<\/p>\n

21:20 BST<\/p>\n

FT: Chelsea 2-0 Bayer Leverkusen<\/p>\n

\"\"Chelsea<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca, speaking to Channel 5:<\/b> “I’m very happy with the performance especially as we have trained just three or four days together. We don’t have time for pre-season. We have another game on Sunday.<\/p>\n

“Not all of the players are going to be happy always. If they don’t play, they’re not happy. But they have to understand that they are all good – 22, 23, 24 players – and they have to understand that there will be many rotations.”<\/p>\n

On Estevao Willian’s impressive performance:<\/b> “He’s very, very young. For sure, as I said yesterday, he is going to help the team. He’s a fantastic player.”<\/p>\n

On strengthening his defence after Levi Colwill’s injury: <\/b>“It’s a priority for me, yes, because Levi is a fantastic player. What we achieved last season is because of him also. I love him, I’m going to miss him.”<\/p>\n

Is there a plan to bring in another centre-back in this window:<\/b> “We’ll see, we’ll see.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Estevao is a fantastic player’published at 21:20 British Summer Time 21:20 BST FT: Chelsea 2-0 Bayer Leverkusen Chelsea…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-329019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114995563491673645","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}