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Chelsea midfielder Romeo Lavia has taken intention at Jamie Carragher after the pundit claimed that the Blues wouldn’t have the ‘character’ to clinch a Champions League place.
‘I feel Chelsea and Nottingham Forest would possibly each miss out,’ the previous Liverpool defender mentioned forward of the Premier League’s remaining day.
‘I am undecided Chelsea have gotten the character and character to go there and win.’
Enzo Maresca’s facet went on to show Carragher mistaken by securing a 1-0 win that noticed the Blues return to Europe’s premier membership competitors for the primary time in three years.
After the victory, Lavia, who rejected the prospect to hitch Carragher’s former facet for the Blues in 2023, took to Instagram and poked enjoyable on the 47-year-old in a collection of pictures that included one together with his head in his fingers.
The Belgian’s social media assortment additionally included an image of himself and Chelsea proprietor Todd Boehly, whose radical method to the switch market lastly seems to be bearing fruit.
Romeo Lavia has taken intention at Jamie Carragher after Chelsea’s 1-0 win over Nottingham Forest
Carragher claimed the Blues lacked the ‘character’ to clinch a Champions League place
Lavia took to Instagram after the match, posting a collection of pictures that included one with Carragher’s head in his fingers
Maresca additionally hit out at his and Chelsea’s critics after the match, urging them to ‘eff off’ after they received at Nottingham Forest to clinch Champions League qualification.
‘I didn’t have any doubt concerning the gamers,’ mentioned Maresca.
‘The doubt was from outdoors. All those which have the solutions or those which have the reality, they had been saying that we’re too younger, we aren’t ok, they had been ready for Aston Villa to drop factors for us to realize the Champions League.
‘They had been saying that we weren’t in a position to win on this pitch as a result of we’re too younger, as a result of we aren’t skilled.
‘Sadly for them, they’ve all been mistaken. All those which have the reality and have a solution to every part. So in English, the way you say? “Eff off” to all of them, as a result of the gamers deserve that. The hassle they’ve been doing is incredible.’
Chelsea broke a brand new file by formally changing into the youngest group in Premier League historical past. The common age of their line-ups over 2024-25 has been 24 years and 36 days.
The earlier file was set by Leeds United in 1999-2000 at 24 years and 162 days.
Maresca continued: ‘(Manchester) Metropolis misplaced right here, Arsenal drew right here, Liverpool drew right here, Chelsea received. It isn’t simple. The gamers, they confirmed how good they’re.
‘Sadly we’re in a enterprise the place the folks decide us due to the outcomes. And in the present day, in case we weren’t in a position to win the sport, in all probability all of you’ll decide this season a catastrophe. Nevertheless it was not a catastrophe.’
