{"id":80424,"date":"2025-12-17T06:03:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T06:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80424"},"modified":"2025-12-17T06:03:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T06:03:57","slug":"chelsea-beat-cardiff-3-1-to-ease-maresca-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/17\/chelsea-beat-cardiff-3-1-to-ease-maresca-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Beat Cardiff 3-1 to Ease Maresca Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chelsea lifted some pressure off under-fire boss Enzo Maresca with a 3-1 comeback win over League One side Cardiff City on Tuesday, reaching the League Cup semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Alejandro Garnacho put Chelsea ahead early in the second half, but Cardiff\u2019s David Turnbull equalised with a powerful header. Late goals from Pedro Neto and Garnacho secured the victory.<\/p>\n<p>The win comes days after Maresca\u2019s remarks about a lack of \u201csupport\u201d following Chelsea\u2019s 2-0 win over Everton, which fueled speculation of tension with the club\u2019s hierarchy.<\/p>\n<p>Despite making 11 changes and resting key players, Chelsea weathered early threats before Garnacho\u2019s half-time introduction turned the game in their favour.<\/p>\n<p>Maresca highlighted the result, noting Chelsea had reached their \u201cthird semi-final in 18 months\u201d under his tenure.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea, who last won the League Cup in 2015, have won only two of their last six games but remain in contention for silverware this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Chelsea lifted some pressure off under-fire boss Enzo Maresca with a 3-1 comeback win over League One side Cardiff City on Tuesday, reaching the League Cup semi-finals. Alejandro Garnacho put Chelsea ahead early in the second half, but Cardiff\u2019s David Turnbull equalised with a powerful header. Late goals from Pedro Neto and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":80425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80426,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80424\/revisions\/80426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}