Chelsea face bigger test than Legia Warsaw tomorrow night – Stamford Bridge | OneFootball

Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall has not had a really easy first season at Chelsea, but his importance to the team has grown as the campaign has gone on, and he’s had a major hand in the Conference League campaign without doubt.

He’s played twice as many minutes in that competition as in others combined, and we all expect him in the team in every game we play there.

That side quest reaches its next staging post tomorrow night when we face the return leg against Legia Warsaw. Having seen them off pretty handily in their own stadium, despite a ferocious atmosphere, nobody is expecting much challenge tomorrow.

But of course a player will never say that – especially one who knows it’s important he impresses in the chances he’s given. In an interview on the Chelsea official website, KDH spoke a little about how he felt about the competition:

“[European games] give you a different feeling – it’s hard to explain,” Dewsbury-Hall explained.

“The Premier League’s the Premier League. It’s amazing, it’s the best, but you have a little bit of a different feeling in Europe when you’re going away to these different cultures and the fans are completely different, they’re loud, and it’s just something in your body’s that’s like, ‘This isn’t like a Saturday at 3pm in the Premier League. This is a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday night and you’re away in Poland’.”

KDH need to help team get Stamford Bridge back onside

Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall in midfield in a Conference League game against Copenhagen. (Photo by Mike Hewitt/Getty Images)

Tomorrow will be a funny game, especially in the context of the rising pressure from the fans on Enzo Maresca. Winning isn’t enough – passage to the next round is effectively guaranteed. The fans want to see entertaining football, and KDH can be at the heart of that.