“It’s not football, it’s a joke”

Enzo Maresca, Chelsea’s coach, has been charged This Saturday against suspensions in matches due to bad weather at the Club World Cup after his meeting against Benfica, who stopped at 85 minutes and stopped for two hours before continuing (1-4 for the British).

“In 85 minutes we control the game, we didn’t give anything and create enough opportunities to win the game. And then, after the break, the game changed completely,” he said at a press conference.

“Personally for me it’s not football. There are already seven, eight, nine games suspended here (there are six actuals). I think it’s a joke, honest (…). I find it difficult to understand. I understand this for security reasons, but if you suspend too many parties probably means that This is not the right place to make this competition “, added

Chelsea won 0-1 when the game played with Charlotte (USA) It was interrupted by the storm andn the 85 minutes. After a long break, Benfica was tied With Angel Di María’s penalty in 95, which led to the extension in which the Londoners finally imposed.

“This is an amazing -wonderful competition (…). But the problem is that if you suspend a game for two hours it is not a football. It is something completely

“It’s a completely different game. It’s not the same game. The rhythm is broken. In those two hours inside, players talked to their families to find out if they were going well in terms of security, they ate something, they were laughing, they were talking on the phone … two hours!” He added.

The Italian coach asked not to understand and repeatedly -he believed that the Club World Cup was a “amazing -wonderful” contest and emphasized his happiness in being in the quarterfinals.

But he insisted that if there were many suspensions, something would not work properly, even though he acknowledged that he did not know what could be the solution.

“It is not normal to suspend a game. In a World Cup, how many games are suspended? Probably zero. In Europe, how many are suspended? Zero. Here we are two weeks and six games have been suspended. This is a problem. But I speak as a coach. When you are two hours inside and want to keep players ‘in the game’, how do you keep it pure? It’s a joke, that’s why I said it, “he closed.