Chelsea will look to put last weekend's gloom behind them as they take on League One side Lincoln City on Tuesday in the 2025-26 Carabao Cup. Speaking to the press ahead of the match, Enzo Maresca warned against complacency, saying, "these are the games that worry me the most because you can slip very easily. I am very worried about that."
For Chelsea, a title run in the EFL Cup will be the aim and Maresca will be looking to start the campaign with a bang. "We improved a lot last season," he said. "If you see the table in the last year, we closed the gap. We will try to continue to improve. This is our main focus for this season." He will most likely be without Cole Palmer , whose injury is being monitored on a "game-by-game" basis, but there is plenty of attacking depth in the Chels