Conference League: It’s disrespectful – Agbonlahor blasts Chelsea for omitting key players

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Conference League: It’s disrespectful – Agbonlahor blasts Chelsea for omitting key players

Former Aston Villa captain, Gabby Agbonlahor, has hit out at Chelsea’s decision to omit some of their high-profile players like Cole Palmer, Wesley Fofana and Romeo Lavia from their Europa Conference League squad.

According to the former England international, Chelsea’s decision is ‘disrespectful to the competition’.

Recall that Chelsea manager, Enzo Maresca, recently released his squad for the Conference League and dropped the likes of Palmer, Fofana and Lavia.

“I think it’s disrespectful to the competition because they wouldn’t do that for the Europa League or the Champions League,” Agbonlahor told talkSPORT.

“They are looking at the Europa Conference League like, “Eurgh, we are Chelsea and we should not be in this… let’s rest our players who might pick up knocks”.

He added, “Especially with Lavia and Fofana. They have had injury problems and they are probably thinking, “Rest them in the Europa Conference League, we can play a weakened side and then concentrate on the Premier League with some of these players”.