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Maresca's Questionable Comment

ESPN FC

ESPN

Soccer, Sports

4.22.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The FC crew react to Chelsea's 3-1 win over Cardiff in the Carabao Cup and Enzo Maresca's 'worst 48 hours' at Chelsea comments. Then, a discussion on Bruno Fernandes' comments on Man United 'wanting him to go' during the summer transfer window. Plus, a discussion on whether Raphinha was snubbed from the FIFA Best XI. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Welcome into the latest edition of ESPNFC. I'm Dan Thomas, joined by Craig Burley and Stevie Nicol. We'll kick things off in the Carrowe Cup. We're at the quarterfinal stages. Cardiff taking on Chelsea. Nothing happened in the first half of this type. Chelsea, though, would take the lead just before the hour mark. Garnacho and making it 1-0. Turnbull would get one back, though, for Cardiff. However, two late goals for Chelsea. we've seen Gareemps in the next round. We've got all the Chelsea big boys with us. Frank LeBuff joins us, of course, former Chelsea player, plus our Chelsea correspondent, James Olly, with us as well. Craig, you watch this game? Did I? Yeah, I think so. You watched it on night, dude? I'm not quite sure it did.'m not quite sure it did it was

1:12.4

it was on

1:14.5

it was on it was on

1:17.2

they made a lot of changes

1:18.2

they went to the bench

1:19.4

get the job done obviously

1:21.0

card they've got back into it

1:22.3

Chelsea there's not a lot to say

1:25.0

about it Chelsea expected to win

1:26.7

anything else would have been a disaster particularly after the last year Chelsea, look, there's not a lot to say about it. Chelsea expected to win.

1:32.2

Anything else would have been a disaster, particularly after the last few days,

1:38.7

the managers' comments, the press conferences, the sort of lines he's been thrown out there,

2:01.6

chucking out the bait, which, you know, every Tom Dick and Harry try to work out what he's meaning and what he's talking about. So the last thing he would have wanted was to go out of this competition to a third-tier team, which, you know, it was a hard-fought cup time for them. It wasn't easy, but in the end, just that little bit of quality. As I say, went to the bench, got the job done. Frank, would you like to add anything?

2:04.3

Yeah, no, nothing much.

2:10.7

I mean, easy to say that Chelsea did the job, but I want to give credit to the Welsh. I mean, that team really surprised me for a league one team.

2:15.6

I guess they're going to be promoted and they deserve it.

2:18.3

Because, I mean, the way they play, the way they managed to come back and the quality

2:23.5

that they had, yeah, they made mistakes at the back, especially on the first goal.

2:28.2

But everything that they did was very well thought and very well played.

2:31.4

So it wasn't easy for Chelsea.

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