Chelsea didn't spend £1bn to win UECL, but it's the beginning

Frokwaf, Poland - The new Chelsea era has finally taken off. Just four days after winning the Champions League football game, Bruce canceled their first trophy with ownership of Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital, after winning the UEFA Conference League with a 4-1 win over Real Betis.

Given the resource yawning gap between Chelsea and other fields, they won the game almost from the start, it was a competition, a competition that felt particularly agile when traveling to unusual locations including Astana, Heidenheim and the nearest djurgården.

Betis is far from the toughest opponents they face, which seems to be a challenge in about an hour or so, bringing a ninth minute lead to Laliga with their quick start completely guaranteed.

If anyone gives this new Chelsea avatar to its crown moment, it has to be Cole Palmer. England International surpassed Mauricio Pochettino's only season and remained the shining light of Enzo Maresca until the campaign took place.

But he was dazzled here. Two great assists in five minutes shocked the game. First, a luxurious cross provides Enzo Fernández with a header that is almost unmissable at close range, and then the fantastic turn and cross show Nicolas Jackson his near-after chance of converting easily.

Substitute Jadon Sancho is ranked fourth in downtime at Moisés Caideo, but has made a matching definition contribution.

Palmer later said: "I'm tired of getting the ball, leaning back, side and side, and I think the next ball, I'm going to go."

"The first one, there's a little space, I saw Enzo running on it, so put it on the top. (Second) Again the same, I saw Jackson, so I crossed."

Of course, Boehly and Clearlake spend no more than £1 billion since the acquisition in May 2022 to win the third tier of Europe. The fact that they participated in the conference alliance reflected this error.

But they have to start somewhere. When the European Union (UEFA) won a game four years ago, Chelsea became the pride of the men's team to win every possible club game that was open to European teams.

They had this feeling before. In 2022, Chelsea won the Club World Cup to complete the current scene at the time, the last of the 21 honors of Roman Abramovich's tenure, before World Event stepped in and forced the club's sale. Under Abramovich, they are the continual winners, and the club somehow violated the convention of sustained success based on stability to maintain the ongoing success of providing silverware almost every year.

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"I'm tired of going backwards!" - Palmer's reaction to the conference alliance

Cole Palmer spoke after Chelsea beat Real Betis 4-1 in the UEFA Conference League final.

In the past three years, the scale of changes at all levels cannot be exaggerated: staff at all levels, almost brand new teams, have signed huge fees with huge long-term contracts.

Chelsea's methodological question can only be answered by the trophy. Last season's Calaba Cup final defeated Liverpool. Now they have one.

"Hopefully this can be a starting point," Maresca said. "To build a winning mindset, you need to win games, you need to win games, and it's certain that the trophy we won tonight will make us better. But I'm proud of our path and journey in the Premier League, and for me, it's the hardest game in the world. You have to be consistent with these players in 38 games."

Palmer's influence on this team is profound, and it's a creative outlet that weaves everything together. He has scored only one goal in the last 23 games - it was a free throw - but he's alive on the big stage here, freeing the game away from Betis for a while in hopes of winning the first trophy in their history.

Maresca has personal satisfaction on many levels. After four seasons as a player with Betis rival Sevilla, the Italian was booed by the green guy before the kickoff. On the opposite side is Manuel Pellegrini, who played in Malaga and later coached at West Ham United. “He’s like my professional father,” Maresca said throughout the game.

This can be frustrating when a child beats his father for the first time, but Maresca needs this, even if he feels he has to correct his mistakes, it needs further verification, even if he has to replace Malo Gusto with Reece James in the half-time game and introduces Sancho to Sancho soon after.

Maresca then claimed that he tried to "protect" James's luck in injury, but Chelsea's progress after the introduction made his original omission feel missed.

If Chelsea should win this game because their roster is excellent, then the final argument proves it. While that's not before some ancient setbacks began to surface, Betis couldn't fully explain the two-day preparation: Chelsea was too slow, too passive, and frankly, despite dominating the ball, Maresca's desire for control was to provide a platform in his game that couldn't provide a distinction in the final third.

That's what Palmer did. Maresca reached out to a long message on the final whistle and around the 23-year-old boy, and the celebration began.

The Blues are now heading to the Club World Cup with cabinet trophy and the upcoming Champions League campaign. The momentum is growing.