Chelsea put in a dominant showing against Djurgarden in Sweden on Thursday evening to take a commanding 4-1 lead back to London from the first leg, and take a big step towards the final in Poland.

Jadon Sancho opened the scoring early on to take some of the sting out of the atmosphere, before Noni Madueke made it 2-0 before half-time.

A second-half brace by Nicolas Jackson ensured that Djurgarden’s goal was small consolation for the home side, as we take a three-goal lead into the next week’s second game at Stamford Bridge.

‘First of all I’m very happy with the result and the performance,’ said Maresca. ‘It’s the semi-final of a European competition so it’s very important.

‘Again we planned the game in one way in the beginning and to finish in a different way. I think the performance for one hour or 70 minutes was a good performance but then we dropped a bit in the final 15 minutes.

‘That was probably because we were 3-0 or 4-0 ahead. That showed that we cannot allow ourselves to drop because it’s always complicated.’

Our head coach was quick to point to our quarter-final in this competition to demonstrate why we can’t let our guard down at the Bridge despite our healthy lead, after losing 2-1 to Legia Warsaw in the second leg following a similarly impressive win in the first.

‘The message is that against Legia Warsaw away we won away 3-0 but then at home we struggled,’ Enzo continued.

‘So that was a good experience and for sure in the next leg at home we need to finish the job and hopefully we can reach the final.

‘Absolutely it’s not over. We have the experience from Legia Warsaw. It was a good experience because we can learn from that. We need to finish the job at home.’

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